Andrew Penny

Andrew Jonathan Penny MBE (born 4 December 1952, Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England)[1] is an English conductor. He has recorded a complete cycle of Malcolm Arnold's symphonies.[2] He has conducted a series of recordings of Arthur Sullivan's ballets and incidental music released on the Marco Polo label. Some have been reissued on the Naxos label. They include The Merchant of Venice, [3] The Merry Wives of Windsor,[4] Henry VIII[5] and Macbeth.[6] From 1982 to 2022, he was Musical Director of the Hull Philharmonic Orchestra.[7] In November 1999 he directed two performances of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 (The Symphony of a Thousand), as part of the Millennium celebrations in Hull.

He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to music.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Andrew Penny". radioswissclassic.ch. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
  2. ^ "Sir Malcolm Arnold and his Nine Symphonies", Classical CD Review, July 2005, "Sir Malcolm Arnold". Archived from the original on 11 April 2012. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
  3. ^ OCLC 1333490888
  4. ^ OCLC 884174715
  5. ^ OCLC 811253696
  6. ^ OCLC 884174715
  7. ^ "Penny, Andrew". Naxos Digital Services Ltd. November 2001. Archived from the original on 3 January 2009. Retrieved 3 June 2009.
  8. ^ "No. 60895". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 2014. p. b23.


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