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- Grammy Award-winning conductor John Nelson is recognised worldwide as one of America’s most eminent conductors, as well as the leading living interpreter of the music of Hector Berlioz.
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Nov 18, 2022 · John Nelson on Berlioz and Handel. by Katherine Cooper. The veteran American conductor John Nelson's love-affair with the music of Hector Berlioz stretches back more than fifty years, and continues to bear fruit this week with a wonderful live recording of the song-cycle Les nuits d'été (with soloist Michael Spyres tackling all of the songs ...
John Wilton Nelson (born December 6, 1941, San José, Costa Rica, of American parents) is an American conductor. His parents were Protestant missionaries. [1] Nelson studied at Wheaton College and later at the Juilliard School of Music with Jean Morel. Nelson was music director of the Greenwich Philharmonia in Connecticut and the New Jersey Pro ...
Mar 10, 2024 · Grammy Award-winning conductor John Nelson is recognised worldwide as one of America’s most eminent conductors, as well as the leading living interpreter of the music of Hector Berlioz. In 2018, Nelson stole headlines the world over by way of outstanding critical reception to his complete recording of Berlioz’s Les Troyens .
- For The Love of Berlioz
- Work Off The Stage
- Berlioz’s 150th Anniversary
John Nelson is recognized as a great interpreter of the sacred music repertoire and vibrant performances of Baroque music. He also is a lover of opera, especially the brilliant French composer Hector Berlioz, whom he fell in love with early in his career. His main project this year is completing a huge recording cycle of Berlioz’s major works in Eu...
When John is home in Florida, he enables projects serving the homeless through his church, as well as missionary causes. John was born into amissionary family in Costa Rica whose goal in life was to serve theunderprivileged. Though different, John is a servant of sorts, communicating a composer’s emotions and narrative to the audience. “Otherwise, ...
On the 150th anniversary of Berlioz’s death, John Nelson will conduct the Shakespeare narrative that the composer deemed “too beautiful, too musical” not to be performed. He will be joined by mezzo Sarah Mesko, tenor Colin Ainsworth, bass Eric Owens, OBF Orchestra, OBF Chorus, and UO Chamber Choir. Berlioz: Romeo & Julietwill be at 7:30 p.m. Saturd...
Mar 7, 2019 · The American conductor John Nelson is widely regarded as one of the greatest living interpreters of the music of Hector Berlioz: his live recording of Les Troyens (with Joyce DiDonato, Michael Spyres, and Marie-Nicole Lemieux) on Erato in 2017 won so many awards that we had to recalibrate the display on our website, and his discography also ...
Nov 24, 2017 · By David Salazar. Back in 1973, 32-year-old conductor John Nelson took the stage at Carnegie Hall. He was leading his first-ever performance of Berlioz’s monumental opera “Les Troyens.”. Little did he know at that moment that the piece could come to become one of the most important of his entire career.
Join us for an evening of music and conversation marking the 150th anniversary of Hector Berlioz, the French Romantic composer who created some of the greatest and most enduring works in the classical and operatic repertoire such as Les Troyens, Symphonie fantastique, Roméo et Juliette, Les Nuits d’été and Benvenuto Cellini.
