Concert Listings » Oliver Knussen conducts Academy Manson Ensemble
30 January 2015 at 7.30pm
Oliver Knussen conducts Academy Manson Ensemble
Royal Academy of Music Marylebone Road, London United Kingdom http://www.ram.ac.uk
Oliver Knussen conductor
Academy Manson Ensemble
Oliver Knussen, recently appointed as the Academy’s Richard Rodney Bennett Professor of Music, launches his new relationship with Academy Manson Ensemble.
Knussen dedicated the first of his Two Organa to Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Visiting Professor of Composition at the Academy. The Academy’s Head of Composition Philip Cashian studied with Knussen; and the latest generation in this teaching line is Cashian’s own PhD student Ryan Latimer.