Conductors
Mark Heron
Mark Heron is a Scottish conductor known for dynamic and well-rehearsed performances across an unusually wide range of repertoire.
He is the music director of the Nottingham Philharmonic, University of Manchester Symphony, and Liverpool Mozart Orchestras. As a member of the conducting faculty at the Royal Northern College of Music, Mark works regularly with the full range of the college’s orchestras and ensembles. As a guest conductor he has worked with many professional ensembles including the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Pori Sinfonietta, St Petersburg Festival Orchestra, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Psappha, Orquesta Sinfónica de la Región de Murcia, and Pärnu Philharmonic.
Dedicated to working with young musicians, in addition to his work at the RNCM and Manchester University, Mark has worked with ensembles from the Royal Academy of Music, Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, many British youth orchestras, and with groups in the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and Israel
Mark has a keen interest in contemporary music and has given world premieres of many important works. He has collaborated with leading composers such as Magnus Lindberg, James McMillan, Mark Anthony Turnage, Giya Kancheli, Unsuk Chin, Christopher Rouse, Kalevi Aho, Detlev Glanert and many others. In 2006 he gave the European premiere of American composer Daron Hagen’s opera, Bandanna. To date he has recorded 9 compact discs with the RNCM Wind Orchestra featuring contemporary wind repertoire.
Mark studied at the RSAMD and the RNCM. Following a successful chamber music career and freelance work with many of the UK’s professional symphony orchestras, he undertook conducting studies at the RNCM and has worked intensively in master classes with Neeme & Paavo Järvi, Jorma Panula, and Sir Mark Elder. In 2005 Mark was awarded first prize in the Neeme Järvi conducting competition and in 2006 he worked with Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra as one of three young conductors selected by the orchestra for their mentoring programme.
Alongside his conducting engagements, Mark teaches conducting at the RNCM, Manchester University, Sherborne Summer School and as a visiting professor to the Royal Air Force.
Further information including concert dates is available at www.markheron.co.uk
Mark Heron is a Scottish conductor known for dynamic and well-rehearsed performances across an unusually wide range of repertoire.
He is the music director of the Nottingham Philharmonic, University of Manchester Symphony, and Liverpool Mozart Orchestras. As a member of the conducting faculty at the Royal Northern College of Music, Mark works regularly with the full range of the college’s orchestras and ensembles. As a guest conductor he has worked with many professional ensembles including the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Pori Sinfonietta, St Petersburg Festival Orchestra, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Psappha, Orquesta Sinfónica de la Región de Murcia, and Pärnu Philharmonic.
Dedicated to working with young musicians, in addition to his work at the RNCM and Manchester University, Mark has worked with ensembles from the Royal Academy of Music, Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, many British youth orchestras, and with groups in the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and Israel
Mark has a keen interest in contemporary music and has given world premieres of many important works. He has collaborated with leading composers such as Magnus Lindberg, James McMillan, Mark Anthony Turnage, Giya Kancheli, Unsuk Chin, Christopher Rouse, Kalevi Aho, Detlev Glanert and many others. In 2006 he gave the European premiere of American composer Daron Hagen’s opera, Bandanna. To date he has recorded 9 compact discs with the RNCM Wind Orchestra featuring contemporary wind repertoire.
Mark studied at the RSAMD and the RNCM. Following a successful chamber music career and freelance work with many of the UK’s professional symphony orchestras, he undertook conducting studies at the RNCM and has worked intensively in master classes with Neeme & Paavo Järvi, Jorma Panula, and Sir Mark Elder. In 2005 Mark was awarded first prize in the Neeme Järvi conducting competition and in 2006 he worked with Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra as one of three young conductors selected by the orchestra for their mentoring programme.
Alongside his conducting engagements, Mark teaches conducting at the RNCM, Manchester University, Sherborne Summer School and as a visiting professor to the Royal Air Force.
Further information including concert dates is available at www.markheron.co.uk
