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John Longstaff
Born: Lancashire.
Education: Girton College, Cambridge; Guildhall
School of Music and Drama.
Companies/Organisations: Kiel Opera House,
Germany (conductor and rehearsal pianist); Northern Ballet
Theatre (conductor and rehearsal pianist); Sheffield Symphony
Orchestra (artistic director); Leeds College of Music (opera
conductor).
For Northern Ballet Theatre: Romeo & Juliet, Swan Lake,
Giselle, Don Quixote, Carmen, Great Expectations, Madame Butterfly,
I Got Rhythm, Beauty and the Beast, A Midsummer Night's Dream,
La Traviata.
Other Ballet Scores: Dorian, La Sylphide.
Other Arrangements: Eugene Onegin, Hansel
and Gretel (chamber versions), The Coronation of Poppaea.
Career Highlights: Second Prizewinner, Leeds
Conductors' Competition; arranging and producing the acclaimed
CD of Great Expectations (Elgar); editing Handel’s Judas
Maccabaeus in the orchestration attributed to Mozart, recently
discovered in Halifax and televised on BBC 4; producing the
NBT CD of Peter Pan.
Personal: Enjoys playing the organ for Sunday
services at St. Peter's, Harrogate.
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