Mr. Errol Girdlestone

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  Errol Girdlestone
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  Errol Girdlestone
  
  Conductor & music director of Ensemble Cordial
  
  Born in Oxford and educated at its ancient university, Errol Girdlestone has developed his career in the finest English musical tradition.He is at ease as much with 19th century Italian opera and 16th century polyphony as with symphonic works of the Austro-German school.
  
  Errol's musical skills are similarly diverse.He has been an organist, harpsichordist and piano accompanist; a singer, composer and arranger; and an operatic repetiteur, chorusmaster and conductor.Conducting has increasingly become his principal occupation, of opera or orchestral or choral music.
  
  A founder member of the Hilliard Ensemble in England, Errol runs two choirs in the south of France.One is a professional Anglo-French group, Cantores in Vencia; the other the amateur chorus of Syrinx Concerts, of which he is artistic director.Syrinx has a semi-permanent professional orchestra with international soloists, who give regular symphony concerts under his direction on the Côte d'Azur between Vence and Monaco.Syrinx is noted in the area for the high standard of its performances and the originality of its programmes.
  
  Errol Girdlestone recently conducted Butterfly and The Cunning Little Vixen at the open-air festival at Gattières, and Traviata and Barbiere in Monte Carlo.Further afield he has conducted Handel's Semele for Chicago Opera Theater, Verdi's Macbeth in Montivideo, and Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte for the English National Opera in London.His recent concert work has taken him to Germany, where he conducted Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem in Leipzig.He also conducted Bach's B minor Mass for Musique Cordiale in the Var in France and at the Canterbury Festival in England.
  
  He appeared with the Wiener-Konzertverein in September 2006 and has further guest conducting engagements with them later in 2007, including the Bregenz festival and at the Musikverein in Vienna.

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  Errol Girdlestone
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  Errol Girdlestone
  
  Conductor & music director of Ensemble Cordial
  
  Born in Oxford and educated at its ancient university, Errol Girdlestone has developed his career in the finest English musical tradition.He is at ease as much with 19th century Italian opera and 16th century polyphony as with symphonic works of the Austro-German school.
  
  Errol's musical skills are similarly diverse.He has been an organist, harpsichordist and piano accompanist; a singer, composer and arranger; and an operatic repetiteur, chorusmaster and conductor.Conducting has increasingly become his principal occupation, of opera or orchestral or choral music.
  
  A founder member of the Hilliard Ensemble in England, Errol runs two choirs in the south of France.One is a professional Anglo-French group, Cantores in Vencia; the other the amateur chorus, Ensemble Vocal Syrinx, of which he is chorus director.He is also artistic director of Syrinx Concerts, which has a semi-permanent professional orchestra with international soloists.This gives regular symphony concerts under his direction on the Côte d'Azur between Vence and Monaco.Syrinx is noted in the area for the high standard of its performances and the originality of its programmes.
  
  Errol Girdlestone recently conducted Butterfly and The Cunning Little Vixen at the open-air festival at Gattières, and Traviata and Barbiere in Monte Carlo.Further afield he has conducted Handel's Semele for Chicago Opera Theater, Verdi's Macbeth in Montivideo, and Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte for the English National Opera in London.His recent concert work has taken him to Germany, where he conducted Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem in Leipzig.He also conducted Bach's B minor Mass for Musique Cordiale in the Var in France and at the Canterbury Festival in England.
  
  He appeared with the Wiener-Konzertverein in September 2006 and has further guest conducting engagements with them later in 2007, including the Bregenz festival and at the Musikverein in Vienna.

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  Errol GirdlestoneEnsemble Cordial conductor

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  The Director, Errol Girdlestone
  
  Born in England, Errol Girdlestone studied music at Oxford University, after which he received a British Council grant to study conducting in Warsaw.
  
  He began his professional musical career as a singer however, in some of the most prestigious vocal ensembles in London : the Monteverdi Choir, Cantores in Ecclesia, Pro Cantione Antiqua and in particular with the Hilliard Ensemble, of which he was a founder member.
  
  A period spent working at the English National Opera company rekindled his interest in orchestral conducting, and he spent a number of years in South Africa with the Cape Town Opera where he conducted a number of operas and also began to build up a symphonic repertoire.Upon his return to England, he conducted at the English National Opera (Cosi fan tutte) and at the invitation of the Amsterdam, Oslo and Nice Opera companies.
  
  Since 1988 he has lived in France, conducting the Syrinx Concerts Orchestra, the Ensemble Vocal Syrinx, and its professional counterpart Cantores in Vencia.He has also worked for the Festival d'Art Lyrique in Aix-En-Provence, and with the choruses from the Orchestre de Paris, the European Union Opera and the Cologne Opera, and also in Chicago, where he conducted Handel's Semele in 2002.He was invited back to Chicago in 2004 to work on Rossini's Il Viaggio a Rheims and Britten's Death in Venice and again in 2006 for Dido and Aeneas by Purcell.In 2007 he will conduct for the Chicago College of the Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.
  
  He is also music director of Musique Cordiale, a European music festival which takes place annually in France and England.In 2005 he conducted Bach's B minor Mass in the south of France and at the Canterbury Festival, and in 2006 he conducted Mozart's Great C minor Mass. In 2007 he will conduct Duruflé's Requiem and Handel's Dixit Dominus.
  
  He has several guest engagements in 2007 with the Wiener-Concertverein.He will appear with them at the the Bregenz festival, and later in the year in the Musikverein in Vienna.His opera engagements for 2007 also include the Merry Widow in Monaco.
  
  With the Ensemble Vocal Syrinx he has conducted several Oratorios : Handel's Messiah, Bach's St Matthew Passion and his Christmas Oratorio, as well as Haydn's Creation, Brahms' German Requeim and L'Enfance du Christ by Berlioz.

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  Direction: Errol Girdlestone
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  Conductor: Errol Girdlestone

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  Errol Girdlestone
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  Errol Girdlestone

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  Conductor & Chef de Choeur: Errol Girdlestone
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  Conductor: Errol Girdlestone

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  > Polly May, contralto, Messe en si mineur/Mass in B Minor avec Ensemble Cordial, Errol Girdlestone, dir, Seillans, France, 2005
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  > Chris Wray, bass, & Ensemble Cordial, Andrew Parnell, organ, Duruflé Requiem, Errol Girdlestone, dir,
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  Rosie Bell, soprano, Duruflé Requiem, avec l'Ensemble Cordial, Errol Girdlestone, dir, & Andrew Parnell, orgue/organ,
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  Errol Girdlestone, conductor,
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  Errol Girdlestone, dir, Seillans, 2007, below.

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  Errol Girdlestone
  
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