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Robert Hollingworth

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Monteverdi specialist, Robert Hollingworth, founded I Fagiolini in 1986. Directing this group has taken up most of his time since but he has directed other ensembles at home and abroad, most recently the BBC Singers, NDR Chor, the Academy of Ancient Music and St.James’ Baroque Players. In 2004 Robert directed the Nederlands Kamerkoor in a ground-breaking new music-theatre project (Faust) acclaimed by the Dutch press and set in startling venues such as a Amsterdam vast ship-building yard, a disused station and Bremen Cathedral. Robert directed Opera Zuid’s underground production of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and has conducted the BBC Concert Orchestra in a project with ‘The Full Monty’ composer, Anne Dudley and the BBC Singers in programmes of Jakob Gallus, Giovanni Croce and Vivaldi. Robert founded the spectacular Islington Winter Music Festival, writes and presents programmes for BBC Radio, notably ‘The Early Music Show’ and ‘Discovering Music’.  He has worked on a number of films including Quills. Robert regularly directs choral courses and is once again directing the choral course at Dartington International Summer School in 2010. In 2006 he was appointed as one of the artistic advisors to the York Early Music Festival and for 2009 to the Trigonale Festival, Austria.

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