Photo: Patrick Allen
Clark Rundell
Representation: General Management
Artistic Director: Ensemble 10/10
Contemporary music specialist Clark Rundell is Artistic Director of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s award winning new music group, Ensemble 10/10. Under Rundell’s leadership, Ensemble 10/10 recently won 2 RPS awards for ‘most outstanding ensemble’ and ‘most outstanding concert series’. They broadcast regularly on BBC Radio 3 and are currently completing a three year residency at the Huddersfield Festival of Contemporary Music. In addition to his frequent appearances with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Ensemble 10/10, Rundell guest conducts widely, and has developed relationships with many leading orchestras including the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the ASKO Schoenberg Ensemble.
Deeply committed to the performance of new music, Rundell has given world premières of works by composers such as Louis Andriessen, Django Bates, David Bedford, Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, Derek Bermel, Judith Bingham, Alan Bush, Martin Butler, Gary Carpenter, Tim Garland, Adam Gorb, Edward Gregson, Kenneth Hesketh, David Horne, Steve Mackey, Roger Marsh, Steve Martland, Martijn Padding, and Mark-Anthony Turnage, amongst others.
As an arranger, Rundell is currently collaborating with Louis Andriessen on a new suite from Andriessen’s opera ROSA to be premiered, with Rundell conducting, at Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, in 2013 with the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic. The pair has also collaborated on Vermeer Pictures, a suite from Andriessen’s opera Writing to Vermeer, which was performed at Het Concertgebouw to great critical acclaim in 2006. Rundell has also worked with Mark-Anthony Turnage on an expanded version of Turnage’s Invention on Solitude and with Dutch Latin jazz group Zuco 103 on a joint concert with the Residentie Orkest, Holland.
A specialist in cross-genre collaboration, Rundell has conducted extensive orchestral projects with artists such as Elvis Costello, Toumani Diabate, Tim Garland , Amal Murkus and the Wayne Shorter Quartet. A highly versatile musician, Rundell held the title of Director of Jazz Studies at the Royal Northern College of Music, and has performed with artists such as John Dankworth, Bob Brookmeyer, Victor Mendoza, Guy Barker, Julian Argüelles, Ed Thigpen, Cleo Laine, Andy Sheppard, Lew Tabakin and Michael Gibbs. Still committed to education, Rundell is currently Director of Contemporary Music and Head of Conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.
Rundell’s recent engagements include conducting the premiere performances of MacMillan’s opera Clemency at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as well as dates with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Minnesota, Northern Sinfonia, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Last season saw Rundell heavily involved in the celebrations for Steve Reich’s 75th birthday, conducting Asko Schoenberg Ensemble and Synergy Vocals at the Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam, and Britten Sinfonia at the Reverberations Festival at the Barbican Centre. During the 2011/12 season, Rundell’s diary includes engagements with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, and the City of London Sinfonia as part of a new contemporary music initiative of which he is Artistic Advisor.
Rundell studied at the Northwestern University, Chicago, USA, studying conducting with John P Paynter and trombone with Frank Crisafulli of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and was subsequently awarded a Junior Fellowship to study conducting with Timothy Reynish at the RNCM. Rundell now lives just outside Manchester with his wife and family.
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