David Nixon OBE

Charity number 259140

• John Longstaff
• Carmen
• I Got Rhythm
• Madame Butterfly
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• The Nutcracker
• Romeo & Juliet
• Swan Lake
• The Three Musketeers
• La Traviata

John Longstaff Composer

Born

Lancashire

Education

• Girton College, Cambridge
• Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Companies / Organisations

• Kiel Opera House, Germany (conductor and rehearsal pianist)
• Northern Ballet Theatre (conductor and rehearsal pianist)
• Sheffield Symphony Orchestra (artistic director)
• Leeds College of Music (opera conductor)

For Northern Ballet Theatre

• Romeo & Juliet
• Swan Lake
• Giselle
• Don Quixote
• Carmen
• Great Expectations
• Madame Butterfly
• I Got Rhythm
• Beauty and the Beast
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• La Traviata
• The Three Musketeers
• The Nutcracker

Other Ballet Scores and Arrangements

• Dorian, La Sylphide
• Eugene Onegin
• Hansel and Gretel (chamber versions)
• The Coronation of Poppaea.

Career Highlights

• Second Prizewinner, Leeds Conductors' Competition
• Arranging and producing the acclaimed CD of Great Expectations (Elgar)
• Editing Handel's Judas Maccabaeus in the orchestration attributed to Mozart, recently discovered in Halifax and televised on BBC 4
• Producing the NBT CD of Peter Pan and The Three Musketeers

Personal

Enjoys playing the organ for Sunday services at St. Peter's, Harrogate

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