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TACT signs conductor Oliver Zeffman for worldwide management

TACT signs conductor Oliver Zeffman for worldwide management
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TACT is delighted to announce the signing of conductor Oliver Zeffman for worldwide management. Described by The Telegraph as “phenomenally promising”, the young British conductor is a recent graduate of the Royal Academy of Music and is currently Artistic Director of Melos Sinfonia, an orchestra of young professionals he founded in 2010.

Oliver Zeffman has worked as an assistant to Valery Gergiev, preparing orchestras including the Rotterdam and Luxembourg Philharmonics; Daniel Harding, for whom he has prepared Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with both the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the New Japan Philharmonic; and to David Zinman, Manfred Honeck and Ed Gardner with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Last summer he spent a month assisting Gustavo Dudamel, Thomas Adès and a number of other conductors with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

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Recent and upcoming debuts include leading the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Ulster Orchestra, Ural Youth Symphony Orchestra, Jersey Symphony Orchestra, West Green House Opera and Chelsea Opera Group, whom he leads this season in Anton Rubinstein’s The Demon. Having stepped in at a short notice with the London Chamber Orchestra last season, he returns twice to conduct the orchestra this season. In 2010 Oliver Zeffman founded the Melos Sinfonia (London), an orchestra of young professionals, where he continues in his capacity as the Artistic Director. Together, they have given premiered for the Russian public of a number of important 20th century works – including Maxwell Davies’ Eight Songs for a Mad King, Walton’s Façade, and Ligeti’s Aventures and Nouvelles Aventures. Most recently, at the invitation of Valery Gergiev, toured with a concert staging of George Benjamin’s Written on Skin to the Mariinsky Theatre.

Fluent in Russian, Oliver spent a year studying under the titulage of Alexander Polishchuk at the Saint Petersburg State Conservatory, has taken part in masterclasses at the Tanglewood Music Centre, and with the London Sinfonietta.

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