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Mahler's Resurrection SymphonyIn September 2022, the University of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra were joined on the Hamer Hall stage by Academic Staff (from the Conservatorium of Music), principal players from both the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Orchestra Victoria and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Choir and the MCM Chamber Choir to perform Mahler's mighty Resurrection Symphony. The Soloists were Heather Fletcher (Contralto) and Teresa Ingrilli (Soprano). Listen to this wonderful perfomance here!
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Covid-19 brought an indefinite hold to all performances from March 2020. Richard had just completed the Puccini double bill run, when Melbourne was locked down. Here are two projects that Richard worked on in semester 1 of 2020, along with his fabulous university orchestra and incredible music producer, Haig Burnell; William Tell and Bolero
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- 2019 - Richard's about to head up to work on 2 separate projects with the QSO in October and November - Sibelius 5 features again, as does Shostakovitch's cello concerto and Stravinsky's Pulcinella.
- 2019 has been a jam packed year - with great reviews in New Zealand and Australia including this (from Limelight's Vincent Plush) following a concert of Barry Conyngham's music: 'At this point, I reflected on several conductors who have championed Conyngham’s music since I first encountered Five Windows at the Sydney Proms in 1970: John Hopkins, Hiroyuki Iwaki, Geoffrey Simon and now Richard Davis, MCM’s Head of Orchestral Studies since early 2017. From that distinguished quartet, Davis impresses as the maestro perhaps most finely attuned to the spirit of the composer’s music: his near-balletic gestures drew out the radiance and coruscating resonances in the music in vivid display'
- Richard has just returned from Queensland where he was filmed, conducting the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, in some standard symphonic classics. Richard's diary, for 2019, will feature a few more concerts with the Queensland Symphony - another Music on Sundays concert in Brisbane's QPAC concert Hall and he will also direct them for the Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition. A third successive year with the Dunedin Symphony is also in the pipeline for July 2019.
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- Richard's ongoing relationship with the Queensland Symphony grew throughout 2018 with repeated concerts, and ABC broadcasts, in Brisbane and throughout Queensland featuring, among others, Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade and Stravinsky's Firebird Suite. He has immediately been invited back for several appearances in 2019
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- In February 2017, Richard moved to Melbourne to take up his new post as: Conductor - Music Director and Head of Orchestral Studies at the VCA and MCM. Since arriving in Australia, Richard has received offers to conduct various professional orchestras in Australia and New Zealand
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- October 2016 saw Richard conducting the BBC Philharmonic - on Children's Television and in the Studio, completing a CD recording project of Linda Verrier's portrait of the St Lawrence: The Great River. More to follow...
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- Richard is pleased to announce that he has recently signed with Weaver Arts Management, who will exclusively represent him in the UK, Australia and New Zealand.
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- During the months of June and July Richard directed the BBC Philharmonic, several times, in a series of concerts in the Philharmonic Studios, MediaCity and at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall. Repertoire included Stravinsky's Firebird, Beethoven's 5th symphony and Holst's Mars, from the Planets Suite.
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- In November 2015, Richard conducted members of the BBC Philharmonic in a CD recording of Fleeting by Linda Verrier. Click for more...
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- Conducting at the Royal Albert Hall, in the 2015 Prom season, Richard conducted Emeli Sandé and producer 'Naughty Boy' along with Bollywood Legend, Kanika Kapoor. The charismatic Benny Dayal and amazing Palak Muchhal also sung some Indian movie classics. Click to see the concert.