John Carewe

John Carewe (born 24 January 1933) is a British conductor. Very early in his student career at the Guildhall School of Music, Carewe gave up his original intention of being composer and turned to conducting. His teachers, nevertheless, were all composers: Walter Goehr and Max Deutsch (both Schoenberg pupils), Messiaen (with whom he studied in Paris on a French Government scholarship) and Pierre Boulez.[1][2] In 1958 he founded the New Music Ensemble and gave many British premieres of music by composers including Birtwistle,[3] Boulez,[4] Bennett,[5] Maxwell Davies,[6] and appeared at most of the major British festivals, including the BBC Proms.[7][8] He was one of the three conductors in the first British performance of Stockhausen’s Gruppen, given in Glasgow in 1960.[9][10]

In 1966 Carewe was invited by Sir William Glock to become the Principal Conductor of the BBC Welsh Orchestra.[11] From 1974 to 1986 Carewe was Music Director of the Brighton Philharmonic Society, and was Principal Conductor of The Fires of London between 1980 and 1984.[12][13]

In 1988 Carewe gave the world premiere of Elliott Carter’s Oboe Concerto with Heinz Holliger.[14] In 1996 he was involved with Sir Simon Rattle and Daniel Harding in six performances of Gruppen in Birmingham, London and Vienna.[15]

In 1993 Carewe accepted an appointment as General Music Director of the Chemnitz Opera, and the Robert-Schumann-Philharmonic.[16]

Carewe is also a teacher, and his pupils include Sir Simon Rattle.[17] He frequently worked with the Bundes Jugend Orchester[18] and taught conducting at both the Royal Academy of Music[19] and the Royal College of Music in London. He has served on the jury of the Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition.[20]

Among Carewe's recordings are Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande (recorded in 1988 after performances at Nice Opera),[21] and Milhaud’s La Création du Monde and Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale (recorded with a chamber ensemble from the London Symphony Orchestra).[22]

Carewe's daughter Mary Carewe is a singer. Another daughter, Anna, is a cellist.

References

  1. ↑ "CHARM Symposium 6: Playing wih recordings". www.charm.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
  2. ↑ Rupprecht, Philip (2015). British Musical Modernism: The Manchester Group and their Contemporaries. King's College London: Cambridge University Press. p. 119. ISBN 1316297985.
  3. ↑ "Birtwistle - Monody for Corpus Christi for soprano, flute, violin and horn | Universal Edition". Universal Edition. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
  4. ↑ Harris, Paul; Meredith, Anthony (2011-08-01). Richard Rodney Bennett: The Complete Musician. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857125880.
  5. ↑ Harris, Paul; Meredith, Anthony (2011-08-01). Richard Rodney Bennett: The Complete Musician. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857125880.
  6. ↑ Craggs, Stewart R. (2017-07-12). Revival: Peter Maxwell Davies: A Source Book (2002): A Source Book. Routledge. ISBN 9781351765022.
  7. ↑ "CHARM Symposium 6: Playing wih recordings". www.charm.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
  8. ↑ "2017". BBC Music Events. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
  9. ↑ Del Mar, Norman (Autumn 1961). "On Co-Conducting Stockhausen's 'Gruppen'". Tempo. 59: 15–23. doi:10.1017/S0040298200027807.
  10. ↑ "BBC SSO at 80 - 1961". BBC. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
  11. ↑ "CHARM Symposium 6: Playing wih recordings". www.charm.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
  12. ↑ Heidelberg, Theater und Orchester. "John Carewe". www.theaterheidelberg.de (in German). Retrieved 2018-01-07.
  13. ↑ "Our History - Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra". Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
  14. ↑ "Elliott Carter - Oboe Concerto". www.boosey.com. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
  15. ↑ Hensher, Philip (1996-12-21). "All talent and no gimmicks". ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
  16. ↑ Heidelberg, Theater und Orchester. "John Carewe". www.theaterheidelberg.de (in German). Retrieved 2018-01-07.
  17. ↑ Connolly, Kate (2010-03-11). "Passing the Mahler baton". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
  18. ↑ Germany, Bundesjugendorchester, Deutscher Musikrat, Bonn,. "Dirigenten". www.bundesjugendorchester.de (in German). Retrieved 2018-01-07.
  19. ↑ "Andrea Quinn | Biography | Conductor | Classical Orchestra". www.andreaquinn.com. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
  20. ↑ Connolly, Kate (2010-03-11). "Passing the Mahler baton". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-02-11.
  21. ↑ Salter, Lionel (2013-01-09). "Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande". www.gramophone.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
  22. ↑ "Milhaud* / Stravinsky* - John Carewe Conducting The London Symphony Orchestra Chamber Group* - La Création Du Monde / L' Histoire Du Soldat". Discogs. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
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