Geoffrey Paterson repetiteur

Geoffrey Paterson was born in Kent in 1983.  He read Music at St John’s College, Cambridge, studying composition with Alexander Goehr, and subsequently studied as a conductor with Peter Stark in London, Alasdair Mitchell at the RSAMD, Diego Masson in Dartington and Peter Eötvös and Pierre Boulez in Lucerne, before training at the National Opera Studio as a repetiteur.  In 2009 he was awarded First Prize at the Ninth Leeds Conductors Competition, where he also won the audience prize.

With the Cambridge University Opera Society, Geoffrey conducted a production of Peter Grimes andworld premières of two new operas.  He has worked as repetiteur, assistant conductor and chorus master for several productions at the RSAMD and Edinburgh Studio Opera, as repetiteur at the Edinburgh International Festival and Kentish Opera, and was appointed Assistant Conductor for British Youth Opera’s 2009 production of The Rake’s Progress.

As an orchestral conductor, Geoffrey has appeared at the Aldeburgh and Cheltenham Festivals, and has worked with ensembles including the Hertfordshire Chamber Orchestra, Edinburgh University Chamber Orchestra, Edinburgh Youth Orchestra, Aberystwyth Musicfest Sinfonietta and National Youth Orchestra Sinfonietta.  In workshops and competitions he has also conducted the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of Opera North. His extensive repertoire encompasses many of the landmark works of the 19th and 20th centuries, including avant-garde masterpieces by Berio, Birtwistle, Ligeti, Lutoslawski and Stockhausen.  Works by Brian Elias, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Sir John Tavener are amongst numerous 21st-century world premières he has conducted.

Geoffrey has also worked as Musical Assistant to Mark Fitz-Gerald on several film music projects and recordings with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and at the Komische Oper Berlin. 

For more information, visit www.geoffreypaterson.co.uk.