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 Mark Hartt-Palmer (DipRCM) |
Mark became Leader of the CSO in 2000 succeeding the late Ted Richards. He studied locally with Samuel Coates and subsequently continued under Frances Mason at the Royal College of Music where he studied violin, viola and piano. Mark is well-known as a soloist, recitalist, conductor, arranger and musical director. |
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Solo performances have included the concertos of Mendelssohn, Bruch, Sibelius and the Elgar Concerto at the 2002 Chichester Festivities attracted particular critical acclaim; Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante and Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending. As a recitalist, Mark has played for many years as a duo with Richard Barnes - notable features of their partnership being a recital series in Portsmouth’s Menuhin Room and a concert at Magdalen College Chapel, Oxford. Recitals with Richard Barnes in the summer of 2003 included the second violin sonata of Charles Villiers Stanford which they prepared for publication for the first time - a fitting tribute to this often neglected English composer, now deservedly getting his due as far more than a warm-up act for Elgar, according to recent comments by critic Richard Wigmore. Mark is currently the Musical Director of Petersfield Operatic Society and Petersfield Hi-Lights. He was Musical Director of Havant Light Opera, and conducted them in several Gilbert and Sullivan operas. He has also directed the Hayling Musical Society, with whom he has conducted performances of Oklahoma!, Half a Sixpence and most recently in their production of Leslie Bricusse's Scrooge in which he arranged the score for wind quintet and two keyboards. He was Musical Director for Blake Lapthorn Solicitors’ pantomime, in which he undertook the vocal arrangements and orchestration. Mark himself sang with distinction the part of the Earl of Essex in the 2006 CAOS production of Merrie England. He will give the Canadian première of the Coleridge-Taylor Violin Concerto with the Divertimento Orchestra in Ottawa in April 2008. |
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