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Robert Hollingworth

Renowned Monteverdi expert 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, the Nederlands Kamerkoor and the Academy of Ancient Music. 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 with Rufus Müller in the title role. He has conducted the BBC Concert Orchestra in a project with ‘The Full Monty’ composer, Anne Dudley and the BBC Singers in a programme of Jakob Gallus. Robert founded the spectacular Islington Winter Music Festival, writes and presents programmes for BBC Radio and 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 2006 Robert was appointed as Artistic Advisor to York Early Music Festival.

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