TOMLINSON, ERNEST Ernest Tomlinson, conductor
Ernest Tomlinson, best known as a composer, has been conducting
professionally since the first broadcast, in 1955, of the Ernest Tomlinson Light
Orchestra. In 1969, having returned to his native Lancashire, he founded the
Northern Concert Orchestra, which broadcast regularly from Manchester during
the 1970s, giving many performances of the music of contemporary composers.
Ernest Tomlinson has made many recordings for music publishers for film, television
and other purposes, and has conducted concert performances of his more substantial
works in cities as far apart as Manchester, Munich and Moscow. In the Marco
Polo British Light Music series he conducts the Radio Symphony Orchestra of
Bratislava in two CDs of his own works, in addition to the disc devoted to the
music of Ronald Binge and a second disc of music by Haydn Wood.
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