Christopher Warren-Green
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Christopher Warren-Green

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“What a concert! The British maestro inspired the Tampere Philharmonic into a warm glow and wonderful solos… I can’t remember the last time I heard such a lively and dramatic ​‘En Saga’. Warren-Green allowed the few big climaxes of the work to erupt thunderously, and at the same time he tended the continuity in the more understated sections.”

(Tampere Aamulehti)

Conductor Laureate: Charlotte Symphony Orchestra

British conductor Christopher Warren-Green is Principal Conductor and Music Director of the London Chamber Orchestra in the UK and Conductor Laureate of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra in North Carolina following a twelve-year tenure as Music Director. Warren-Green is Chair of the Foundation for Young Musicians and in 2022 he celebrated a professional career spanning 50 years. 

2024/25 season highlights include returns to Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic, two visits to the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, as well as to the Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra. Further highlights include engagements with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall where Warren-Green conducts Gustav Holst’s The Planets, as well as Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Barbican conducting Beethoven’s infamous Symphony No.9.

Warren-Green has conducted eminent orchestras around the world, including The Philadelphia Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Macao Orchestra, Detroit, Houston, St Louis, Toronto, Milwaukee, Seattle and Vancouver symphony orchestras, and National Symphony Orchestra Washington D.C. In the UK, Warren-Green has worked with Philharmonia, London Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Royal Scottish National orchestras. In Europe, he has conducted Orchestre National de Belgique, Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, Orchestre National de Montpelier, Zürcher Kammerorchester, RTÉ Symphony Orchestra, Iceland Symphony Orchestra and in East Asia the Hong Kong Philharmonic, NHK Symphony, Yomiuri Nippon, Singapore, Sapporo and KBS symphony orchestras. 

Christopher Warren-Green
Christopher Warren-Green

In addition to international commitments, Warren-Green has been honoured to conduct regularly for the British Royal family at events including the wedding services of H.M. King Charles III and H.M. Queen Camilla, T.R.H. The Prince and Princess of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Warren-Green conducted London Chamber Orchestra occasion of Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II​’s 80th birthday and Philharmonia Orchestra for Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II​’s 90th birthday concert at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, as well as H.M. King Charles​’s 60th birthday concert in Buckingham Palace and on other Royal occasions. 

As a conductor he has recorded extensively for Sony, Philips, Virgin, EMI, Chandos, Decca, Deutsche Gramophone, and records with the London Chamber Orchestra for Signum Classics.

As a soloist he has recorded Mendelssohn Mozart and Vivaldi concerti and appeared as soloist extensively in Europe most notably with Academy of St. Martin-in-the Fields in Berlin Philharmonie.

Warren-Green began his career at the age of seventeen, and at the age of twenty-one, was named Concertmaster of BBC National Orchestra of Wales, followed by Philharmonia Orchestra under Ricardo Muti. At age twenty-five, Warren-Green became concertmaster of the Academy of St. Martin-in the-Fields under Sir Neville Marriner. He has served as a juror for many international competitions including the Prague Spring Conducting, the Wieniawski Violin, and Hong Kong Piano competitions. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, having been a professor there for eight years, and has appeared and presented numerous times on television and radio, most notably for the BBC Proms.

Christopher Warren-Green
Christopher Warren-Green - Beethoven: Egmont Overture (excerpt) © LCO Live

“This moving evening of music was capped by a stunning performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ ​“Dona Nobis Pacem,” with the crack Providence Singers joining the orchestra. The much-recorded British conductor Christopher Warren-Green, maestro for royal weddings, was on the podium. And after a Beethoven overture that was a tad too polite, he presided over a heartfelt rendition of the wistful Elgar Cello Concerto, with Philharmonic favorite Colin Carr tackling the solo parts…This was by far the best program of the season”

(Channing Gray, Providence Journal, November 2018)

“Warren-Green was transported at one point to leap into the air, and the collective power of his ​“Lord of Lords” sent chills through me.”

(CVNC, December 2017)

“The maestro certainly sparked a fleet, zesty performance from the orchestra, especially the trumpets and the trombones, who brought gilded fire to the heraldic episodes.”

(BroadwayWorld, December 2017)

“What a concert! The British maestro inspired the Tampere Philharmonic into a warm glow and wonderful solos […] under the baton of Christopher Warren-Green ​”En saga” by Sibelius grew into a magical story. The hall was filled with a warm, colourful and wonderfully sparkling sound, which exactly corresponded with the mystical and even tempestuous story of ​”En saga”. I can’t remember the last time I heard such a lively and dramatic ​”En saga”. Warren-Green allowed the few big climaxes of the work erupt thunderously, and at the same time he tended the continuity in the more understated sections.” *****

(Harri Hautala, Tampere Aamulehti, November 2017)

“[The Dvorak]… had a lot of edge, a lot of energy and sweep. The slow movement was spellbinding, giving way to a driving scherzo and a blazing finale. It was a memorable performance.”

(Providence Journal, January 2016)

“From the first slow notes [of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony] … Warren-Green had the confidence to build gradually, trusting us to stay with him. The warm, weighty opening came to full speed slowly, like a locomotive picking up steam as it climbed a long grade. The second movement burst forward like an undammed brook; the musicians played with such fervor they had to retune when it ended.”

(Charlotte Observer, November 2015)

“As for Dvorak’s Ninth (or ​“New World”) Symphony, conductor Christopher Warren-Green and the orchestra summoned up all of the appropriate drama on the work’s opening movement, sections and soloists stepping forward for consistently impressive turns.”

(Rob Hubbard, Pioneer Press, February 2015)
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