Orlando Jopling is a regular conductor of the English Chamber Orchestra
both on the concert platform and in the recording studio, and he has
also recently conducted the London Mozart Players, the Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra, Sinfonia Viva and the Schönbrunn Orchestra in Vienna.
He will make his debut with the Irish Chamber Orchestra next year,
and works regularly with Sinéad O’Connor.
Orlando Jopling studied with Sir Colin Davis, George Hurst and Colin
Metters at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He also studied cello
with William Pleeth and Steven Isserlis, and enjoyed a wide-ranging
early career as a cellist. Orlando is a recent graduate of the National
Opera Studio in London where he won the first Leonard Hancock scholarship,
and he also founded Tête à Tête, who have commissioned
operas and presented the modern world première of Vivaldi's
lost opera Orlando finto pazzo.
He has also conducted Figaro for Savoy Opera, The Merry
Widow for Carl Rosa, La Scala di Seta for Independent
Opera, and Don Giovanni, Figaro and Idomeneo
in Vienna. Over the last six years he has built up Stanley Hall Opera
in the UK into an established annual festival, conducting Cosi,
Figaro, Don Pasquale, Cenerentola, Falstaff
and La Pietra del Paragone.
