Mark Forkgen Conductor

Concerts with the Salomon Orchestra:

October 2005

April 2004

Mark Forkgen is Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of Kokoro (the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s contemporary music group) and Music Director of Canticum, London Concert Choir, Ealing Youth Orchestra and Dorset Youth Orchestra. He was Organ Scholar of Queens’ College, Cambridge, before winning a scholarship to study conducting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama under Christopher Seaman and Michael Tilson Thomas. During this period he also worked as assistant conductor to Mstislav Rostropovich. From the Guildhall, Mark went on to become Assistant Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra for two highly productive years before deciding to further his career as a guest conductor. Since then he has worked with a number of leading orchestras, including the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, the English Chamber Orchestra, the English Northern Philharmonia and the Composers’ Ensemble. He has given the 1st performances of over eighty works including stage works with the Trestle Theatre Company and Britten Sinfonia, and contemporary opera with the Unicorn Theatre Company with an ensemble from the Philharmonia, in Cardiff, Poole and at the Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Last year he was Conductor and Artistic Advisor for Take it to the Max celebrating Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ 70th Birthday, which was shortlisted in this year’s Royal Philharmonic Society awards.

Please note the last likely update of this biography was at the last appearance with the Salomon Orchestra (see list below the title).

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2006

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