Evidence Frontières
2014
Commissioned by the COnfucius Institute
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Paul McGrath
Paul McGrath was born in London, raised in Switzerland and then later came to school in the UK. His grandparents were Irish, Scottish, Maltese and Polish. After an early career in jazz, Paul began working in the theatre as a repetiteur and rehearsal pianist, joining the music staff at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, (where he also assisted Georg Solti), English National Opera, English National Ballet, and as Chorus Master at the Spanish National Opera in Madrid. Paul studied at the National Opera Studio, London and was a conducting fellow at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester. While still a student, Paul made his professional opera conducting debut in Italy, and was then appointed associate conductor to the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic for a two year period. His opera conducting career began to flourish, and to date he has conducted more than 60 opera productions in opera houses all over the world - in Italy, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, Spain and the USA, as well as nearly a decade as a principal guest conductor with English Touring Opera. Paul has also conducted the world premieres of 5 new operas, by composers including Jonathan Dove and Michael Nyman.
During his time at Warwick, Paul has developed the provision of world music, which began with various trips to India with the University Symphony Orchestra and has led to the annual spectacular, Warwick Fused. These projects have involved Paul as an arranger and this area of interest has led to forays into original composition. Two years ago Paul was commissioned by the Confucius Institute in Beijing to write a transcultural work, mixing western and Chinese instruments, singing and massed participation, a second commission followed in 2015 and to date 'Evidence Pop' has been performed in Arras, France, and 'Evidence Frontieres' has been performed in Arras, France, in Naples, Italy, and has been broadcast on CCTV television in Beijing, China.
Paul has appeared on television on the BBC Late Show, ITV The South Bank Show, Cor Op Reis TROS TV Netherlands and as a conducting mentor on the BBC TV series, 'Maestro at the Opera'.
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List of professional opera productions conducted
OPERA
CONDUCTOR
The Magic Flute - Opera North & English Touring Opera .
Le Nozze di Figaro - Opera Zuid Holland, Opera Factory London & Royal Northern College of Music Manchester
Cosi fan tutte - British Youth Opera & English Touring Opera
Zaide - Batignano Festival Italy
Don Giovanni - English Touring Opera
Paul McGrath's is stylistcally well-equipped.
Gerald Larner- THE TIMES
La Sonnambula - Castleward Festival Opera Belfast
L'Elisir d'amore - Royal Northern College of Music & Pegasus Opera
Roberto Devereux - Royal Northern College of Music
L'Ajo nell'imbarazzo - Batignano Festival Italy
La Cenerentola & The Barber of Seville & Rigoletto - English Touring Opera
Macbeth & Aida & Otello Act 1 - University of Warwick
La Boheme - Hannover Oper Germany
Tosca - Longborough Festival Opera
Madama Butterfly - Dodington Opera
Paul McGrath's conducting ensured the evening's triumphant success.
Michael Kennedy - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
Jonathan Dove - Siren Song, Almeida Opera
Julian Grant - Jump into my Sack, Mecklenburgh Opera
David Horne - The Travellers, BOC Covent Garden Festival
Michael Nyman - Man & Boy: Dada, Almeida Opera London & Kasser Theatre USA
Tim Benjamin - The Bridge, BOC Covent Garden Festival
Michael Nyman - Love Counts, Almeida Opera & Modena Opera House Italy
Humperdinck - Hansel & Gretel, Longborough Festival Opera
Dove - Flight, Vlaamse Oper Belgium
Massenet - Manon, English Touring Opera
Offenbach - La Perichole, Theater Basel
Haydn - The Creation (staged) BOC Covent Garden Festival
Bizet - Carmen, English Touring Opera
Tippett - King Priam, ENO Contemporary Opera Studio & National Opera Studio
Thorodor Abazis - The Sofa, Music Theatre Group Amsterdam
Sullivan - The Pirates of Penzance, D'Oyly Carte Opera
Ligeti - Le Grand Macabre, English National Opera Contemporary Opera Studio & National Opera Studio
Adams - The Death of Klinghofer, ENO Contempemporary Opera Studio & National Opera Studio
Oliver - The Exposition of a Picture, ENO Contemporary Opera Studio & National Opera Studio
Honegger - Jeanne d'arc au bûcher (semi-staged) Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / BBC Proms
Adams - Nixon in China, ENO Contemporary Opera Studio & National Opera Studio
Maxwell-Davis - Martyrdom of St Magnus, ENO Contemporary Opera Studio & National Opera Studio
Ferrero - La Figlia del Mago, Brighton Festival
Bizet - Pearl Fishers, English Touring Opera
Judith Weir - Consolations of Scholarship, Mecklenburgh Opera - Orpheus in the Underworld, Opera North
Birtwistle - Down by the Greenwood Side, UK/LA Festival, Manchester & Los Angeles
Walton - The Bear, UK/LA Festival, Manchester & LA
Tchaikovsky - Orleanskaya Dyeva, Royal Northern College Marschner - The Vampyr (film) BBC Television
Schoenberg - Pierrot Lunaire (film) The Late Show BBC 2 TV
Oliver - Exposition of a Picture - Italian Consulate London
Britten - Peter Grimes - Teatro Nacional Madrid
Maderna - Satyricon - Opera Factory/London Sinfonietta
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Composer Original compositions
Evidence Oratorio
2015
Large scale transcultural symphonic choral work.
The Monkey King
2016
Transcultural concert piece and film score.
McGrath
Arranger Musical Arranging work
Operal orchestral reductions [Materials available for hire]
Arranging work for wind band, brass band, brass quintet, choirs, symphony orchestra, string orchestra, small bespoke ensembles, Chinese orchestra, various world music combinations.
[Rudolph Tap, for wind orchestra, available for hire]
McGrath
Arranger Work for world music
Catalogue of Orchestral arrangements of Bollywood and traditional Indian songs.
[Materials available for hire]
PAUL MCGRATH
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