{"id":4355,"date":"2018-05-14T09:57:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T08:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=4355"},"modified":"2018-05-14T09:57:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T08:57:38","slug":"new-head-of-music-for-garsington-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=4355","title":{"rendered":"NEW HEAD OF MUSIC FOR GARSINGTON OPERA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Garsington Opera<\/strong> is delighted to announce the appointment of\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Jonathon Swinard<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0as Head of Music.\u00a0 He takes up this appointment at the end of the 2018 Season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Jonathon-Swinard.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Jonathon-Swinard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Jonathon-Swinard.jpg 962w, https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Jonathon-Swinard-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Jonathon-Swinard-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Jonathon-Swinard-453x300.jpg 453w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conductor and pianist Jonathon Swinard studied at Oxford University and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He began his career at Scottish Opera as the company\u2019s first Emerging\u00a0Artist\u00a0<em>r\u00e9p\u00e9titeur<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0and went on to hold the Alexander Gibson Choral Conducting Fellowship with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra Chorus. From 2014 to 2016 he was Solorepetitor and Kapellmeister at the Staatstheater in Nuremberg where he conducted opera, ballet, and musical theatre. In 2016 he returned to Scottish Opera as Chorus Master\u00a0and\u00a0<em>r\u00e9p\u00e9titeur.<\/em>\u00a0He studied conducting with Sian Edwards at Dartington and is the Artistic Director of the Scottish Opera Young Company. Jonathon is a long-standing member of Faculty for both the Georg Solti Accademia di Bel Canto and Lyric Opera Studio Weimar, and is a visiting vocal coach at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As Head of Music, Jonathon will be Garsington Opera\u2019s Chorus Master and Music Director of the Alvarez Young Artists\u2019 Programme.\u00a0 He will take over from Susanna Stranders who joins the Music Department at the Royal Opera House.\u00a0 Over six years, Susanna Stranders has made a transformational contribution to Garsington Opera developing both the chorus and Alvarez Young Artists\u2019 Programme to be an internationally renowned training ground for the best young talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garsington Opera is delighted to announce the appointment of\u00a0Jonathon Swinard\u00a0as Head of Music.\u00a0 He takes up this appointment at the end of the 2018 Season. 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