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Performer Information

Adrian Sunshine

Conductor

London Chamber Players

Adrian Sunshine, a pupil of Pierre Monteux, Paul Klecki and Leonard Bernstein, is Music Director of the London Chamber Musicians and Principal Guest Conductor in Athens. Previously he has been Chief Conductor in Lisbon, Music Director of the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor in Rumania.

Having studied both in America and Europe, Adrian Sunshine made his opera début in London. He first performed in Britain with the English Chamber Orchestra and the Philharmonic Orchestra and has made long tours in Poland, Romania and the Soviet Union where he conducted the Leningrad Philharmonics on two occasions. The latter undertaking led to his appointment in Rumania, during which time he took the Rumanian Chamber Orchestra on tour abroad several times. In the course of his career, he has conducted opera and orchestral performances in more than 40 countries.

Source: BMC Records

Performances
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1
December 29, 1979
Aliki Theatre
Athens
Greece
Ekphrasis '79
Ministry of Culture and Sciences
Adrian Sunshine (conductor)
London Chamber Players
String Quartet No. 2
2
November 1, 1982
Pallas Theatre
Athens
Greece
N/A
Athens State Orchestra
Adrian Sunshine (conductor)
Athens State Orchestra
Antiphona, Op. 40
Works
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Work Page
1
YSC82
Antiphona

for Brass, Timpani and Strings

40

4 Horns in F, 4 Trumpets in C, Trumpet in D, 3 Trombones, Tuba, Timpani I and II (28′ & 25′), Strings

2
YSC47
String Quartet No. 2
13

String Quartet (Violin I, Violin II, Viola, and Cello)

References
  1. Adrian Sunshine, cond., Schönberg: Transfigured Night, Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony, Camerata Transsylvanica, BMC Records, accessed August 16, 2024, https://bmcrecords.hu/en/albums/schonberg-shostakovich-transfigured-night-chamber-symph.