Andrew Penny
Andrew Jonathan Penny MBE (born 4 December 1952, Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England)[1] is an English conductor. He has recorded a complete cycle of Malcolm Arnold's symphonies.[2]
Penny graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music. As a postgraduate he studied with Sir Charles Groves.[3]
Since 1982 he has been Musical Director of the Hull Philharmonic Orchestra.[4] In November 1999 he directed two performances of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8, (The Symphony of a Thousand) as part of the Millennium celebrations in Hull.
He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to music.[5]
References[]
- ^ "Andrew Penny". radioswissclassic.ch. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
- ^ "Sir Malcolm Arnold and his Nine Symphonies", Classical CD Review, July 2005, "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 11 April 2012. Retrieved 12 April 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ "Every Picture Tells A Story: Andrew Penny". BBC. 23 September 2008. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
- ^ "Penny, Andrew". Naxos Digital Services Ltd. November 2001. Retrieved 3 June 2009.
- ^ "No. 60895". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 2014. p. b23.
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