Artistic and Administration
Robert Ames
Artistic Director
An advocate of new music, Robert has worked closely with many of today’s finest composers, including Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Pierre Boulez, George Benjamin, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Jonathan Cole, and Mark-Anthony Turnage. Robert performs regularly as a soloist and chamber musician. Recent highlights include a critically acclaimed performance of Colin Matthew’s Four Moods at the BBC Proms, John Woolrich’s Ulysses Awakes at the Roundhouse and a performance of Morton Feldman’s The Viola In My Life 2 at The Old Vic Tunnels. Robert is a founder member of the Gagliano Ensemble with whom he performs regularly in the UK and abroad. www.robertames.co.uk
Hugh Brunt
Artistic Director / Principal Conductor
Hugh Brunt studied at New College, Oxford and is Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the London Contemporary Orchestra. Recent engagements include the Spitalfields Festival, Aldeburgh Festival (Britten-Pears Composers Ensemble), performances with Imogen Heap and the Holst Singers at the Southbank Centre and Latitude Festival, and Tom Stoppard/André Previn’s Every Good Boy Deserves Favour at the National Theatre (Southbank Sinfonia). In Europe, he has performed at the Musikverein, Vienna and assisted at the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg (Thomas Adès’s Powder Her Face). Future engagements include Mike Figgis’s Just Tell the Truth at the Royal Opera House (Deloitte Ignite 2011). www.hughbrunt.com
Jonathan Cole
Composer-in-Association
Jonathan Cole studied composition at King’s College London, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Royal Holloway, University of London. He has enjoyed a fruitful relationship with the London Sinfonietta who have premiered three pieces and has received commissions from the BBC, Nash Ensemble, London Symphony Orchestra and RAI Orchestra, Turin amongst others. His music is widely performed in festivals across the world and has been supported by such figures as Oliver Knussen, George Benjamin and Mark Anthony Turnage. Influenced by Stockhausen and Nono as well as David Lynch and Georges Bataille, his music explores perception and memory in rich and imaginative ways. Jonathan is Head of Postgraduate Composition at the Royal College of Music.
Daniel Pioro
Leader
Daniel Pioro is an English violinist and pupil of Maurice Hasson with whom he studied at the Royal Academy of Music, London. A keen soloist and chamber-musician, Daniel actively promotes new music as well as staying true to the virtuoso repertoire that inspired him to begin playing at the age of four. Leading the London Contemporary Orchestra as well as collaborating with the London Sinfonietta has taken Daniel further into the contemporary music world and he continues to perform as both a part of a classical duo – with the violinist Charlotte Bonneton – as well as a soloist, with the LCO and most recently with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Daniel plays on a violin by Christoph Götting.
John Tress
Treasurer & Company Secretary
Joe Hyames
Orchestra Manager