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Robert King (born 27 June 1960 in Wombourne) is an English conductor, harpsichordist, editor and author. His career has concentrated on period performance of classical music, in particular from the baroque and early modern periods. ==Career== As a youth, he was a member of the Choir of St John's College, Cambridge. He read music at the University of Cambridge, and in 1980, while still a student, founded the period instrument orchestra The King's Consort.〔''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music'', Oxford University Press, 1996/〕〔http://www.satirino.fr/en/orchestras/show/27/The_King_s_Consort〕〔Hyperion Records http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/a.asp?a=A796&vw=dc/〕 As conductor and artistic director of The King's Consort, King has made more than 100 recordings, mostly for Hyperion Records 〔Hyperion Records http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/a.asp?a=A796&vw=dc/〕 and more recently for the Vivat label.〔http://www.vivatmusic.com〕 He has worked as a conductor with orchestras in Europe and North America, including the Seattle, Houston, New World, Oregon, Detroit, Atlanta, Minnesota, WDR and NDR Symphony Orchestras, the Bergen Philharmonic, the Munich Radio Orchestra, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Danish National Radio Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, the Orchestra della RAI Torino, Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi di Milano, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife, Orquesta Ciudad de Barcelona, Real Filharmonia de Galicia, Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla and the Orquesta e Coro Ciudad de Madrid.〔Lucerne Festival,http://lucernefestival.ch/en/conductors/robert_king/〕 King is also a noted choral conductor who has worked with the Nederlands Kamerkoor, Orfeo Catala, Orfeón Donostiarra, Swiss Radio Choir and the BBC Singers. Operatic work has included Handel ''Ottone'' in Japan and the UK, Handel ''Ezio'' in Paris, Purcell ''The Indian Queen'' in the UK and Germany, Purcell ''The Fairy Queen'' in Spain and Britain and Gluck ''Armide'' for Buxton Festival. He has written and presented for the BBC, been artistic director of music festivals in Sweden, Germany, and the UK, and contributed to the scores of a number of Hollywood films including ''Pirates of the Caribbean'', ''Shrek 2'', ''Flushed Away'', and ''The Da Vinci Code''.〔(IMDb )〕 Besides especial acclaim for his work in the field of baroque music, King also is renowned for conducting a wide spread of classical and early romantic works, symphonic and choral, with a particular focus on the music of Mozart, Haydn and Mendelssohn, and a continuing specialisation in early twentieth century English composers, notably the works of Vaughan Williams, Stanford and Parry.〔http://lucernefestival.ch/en/conductors/robert_king/〕 A published author and editor of many scores, principally of baroque music, King wrote a monograph on Purcell published in 1994, to coincide with the 300th anniversary of the composer’s death in 1695. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert King (conductor)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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