ANDREW LITTON
Name: Andrew Litton
Born: 16 may 1959
Andrew Litton (born May 16, 1959, New York City) is an American orchestral
conductor. He is a graduate of The Fieldston School, and holds both
undergraduate and Masters degrees in music from Juilliard.
He was Principal Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra from 1988 to
1994. and is now its Conductor Laureate. He served for twelve seasons as Music
Director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra from 1994 to 2006. He has been Music
Director and Principal Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra in Norway
since 2003. Litton was reported to have been passed over for the position of
music director of English National Opera.
Litton's more than 60 recordings include a Grammy-winning William Walton's
Belshazzar's Feast with Bryn Terfel and the Bournemouth Symphony, a critically-acclaimed
set of Rachmaninov Piano Concertos with pianist Stephen Hough, and a live
performance recording of Sweeney Todd with the New York Philharmonic (Grammy
nomination), a Decca Walton Centennial boxed set, and the complete Tchaikovsky
Symphonies with the Bournemouth Symphony, the complete Rachmaninov Symphonies
with the Royal Philharmonic, Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet with the Bergen
Philharmonic Orchestra, and many Gershwin recordings, both as conductor and
pianist, with the Dallas Symphony, Bournemouth Symphony, and Royal Philharmonic.
Name: Andrew Litton
Born: 16 may 1959
Andrew Litton (born May 16, 1959, New York City) is an American orchestral
conductor. He is a graduate of The Fieldston School, and holds both
undergraduate and Masters degrees in music from Juilliard.
He was Principal Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra from 1988 to
1994. and is now its Conductor Laureate. He served for twelve seasons as Music
Director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra from 1994 to 2006. He has been Music
Director and Principal Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra in Norway
since 2003. Litton was reported to have been passed over for the position of
music director of English National Opera.
Litton's more than 60 recordings include a Grammy-winning William Walton's
Belshazzar's Feast with Bryn Terfel and the Bournemouth Symphony, a critically-acclaimed
set of Rachmaninov Piano Concertos with pianist Stephen Hough, and a live
performance recording of Sweeney Todd with the New York Philharmonic (Grammy
nomination), a Decca Walton Centennial boxed set, and the complete Tchaikovsky
Symphonies with the Bournemouth Symphony, the complete Rachmaninov Symphonies
with the Royal Philharmonic, Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet with the Bergen
Philharmonic Orchestra, and many Gershwin recordings, both as conductor and
pianist, with the Dallas Symphony, Bournemouth Symphony, and Royal Philharmonic.