Paul Hoskins - Conductor (Photo by Simon Weir)
Our new conductor, Paul Hoskins is also Music Director of Rambert Dance Company, for whom he conducts over 70 performances a year, every one including a newly commissioned piece of music. In 2009 he inaugurated the Rambert Music Fellowship, and launched Rambert Orchestra, receiving critical acclaim for performances at Sadler’s Wells. In 2004 Paul won a Time Out award for outstanding contribution to dance.
Paul has conducted in every major concert hall and opera house in London, and also worked with the BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, English Sinfonia and Northern Chamber Orchestra, and given concerts at the Edinburgh Festival, in Slovenia, Romania, Germany, Holland, Denmark and the USA. A new collaboration recently with Danish band Efterklang sees him conduct live performances of the Parades album.
In the theatre, Paul has enjoyed many re-invitations to New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, the Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, and several European theatres. For these and other companies he has conducted the standard 19th Century repertoire, many 18th and 20th Century programmes, as well as several world premieres. Last year he made his debut with the Royal Swedish Ballet in Stockholm.
Other theatre credits include: the world premiere of Stephen McNeff’s opera Clockwork; well-reviewed classical opera for Bampton Classical Opera and at the Buxton Festival; Edward Scissorhands for Matthew Bourne; Wind in the Willows for William Tuckett at ROH2. He has also assisted at Glyndebourne (Peter Grimes) and ENO (The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, and Elegy for Young Lovers).
He is an advocate of engaging with audiences young and old, and can regularly be seen talking (and writing) about music and dance for Rambert.