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
  1. "Andrew Penny". radioswissclassic.ch. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
  2. "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)
  3. "Every Picture Tells A Story: Andrew Penny". BBC. 23 September 2008. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
  4. "Penny, Andrew". Naxos Digital Services Ltd. November 2001. Retrieved 3 June 2009.
  5. "No. 60895". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 2014. p. b23.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.