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WILLIAM LACEY Born in London in 1973, William Lacey has already conducted
over twenty operas. Despite beginning his musical studies at the
relatively late age of fourteen, he made his début at English
National Opera at 24 and shortly thereafter became San
Francisco Opera’s youngest ever mainstage conductor. Recent
successes include Fidelio (with Graham Vick and the
Birmingham Opera Company, broadcast live on BBC TV and
winner of the South Bank Show Award for Opera, 2003) and a
highly acclaimed new production of The Magic Flute at Opera
North. 2003 saw an expansion of his activities on the concert
platform, including his débuts with the Royal Scottish National
Orchestra, l’Orchestre de Bretagne, the Scottish Chamber
Orchestra, and the Houston Symphony Orchestra. In 2004 he made highly successful débuts at the Cologne Opera with Handel’s Serse and
Glimmerglass Opera, in the United States with the same composer’s Imeneo. William
Lacey studied at King’s College, Cambridge, and in Venice and Salzburg. As a pianist and
chamber musician, he was fortunate enough to study extensively with György Kurtag and
Alfred Brendel, who have been his most influential teachers. He started his conducting
career at Almeida Opera, and as an assistant conductor in London, Aldeburgh, Munich
and Pesaro. With cellist Adrian Brendel he co-founded Music at Plush, where in 2003 and
2004 they have continued a Bach cantatas project. In 1998 his first commercial recording,
Alexander Goehr’s Arianna, was released and he conducted The Tales of Hoffmann at the
English National Opera. He has also conducted the London Sinfonietta, the Orchestra
della Toscana, the Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana, the Marin Symphony Orchestra,
the Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra, and the Tyrol Festival Orchestra. Between 1998
and 2001, William Lacey was the Staff Conductor at San Francisco Opera, conducting a
series of opera and collaborating with other leading conductors.
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