Graeme Jenkins

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By the end of 2007 Graeme Jenkins will have conducted 150 operatic productions of 100 different works, his repertoire spanning from the early Italian Baroque to world premieres by Stephen Oliver (ENO) and Tobias Picker (recorded by Chandos). From Glyndebourne, Covent Garden, English National Opera, Scottish Opera and Opera North in the UK, his career has taken him to Australian Opera, Canadian Opera, Danish Opera, Glimmerglass, Cologne Opera, Netherlands Opera, Paris Opera and the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

The British conductor has recently celebrated ten years as Music Director of the Dallas Opera. Highlights from his time there include becoming the youngest ever British conductor to have conducted The Ring, and productions of Wozzeck, Jenufa, Ariodante, Lohengrin and Queen of Spades. Next season he conducts Macbeth, Merry Widow and Salome and leads the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Company with a Gala performance on 17 November 2007 with special guest Renee Fleming. In Autumn 2009 the Company (founded by Larry Kelly and Nicola Rescigno with Maria Callas singing the first concert) moves into the new Winspear Opera House designed by Lord Foster.

Last season Graeme Jenkins made his debut at Vienna State Opera with the celebrated Willy Decker production Britten's Billy Budd,with Simon Keenlyside in the title role. Subsequently he was invited to take over Jenufa from Seiji Ozawa and he will return to Vienna for further performances of Jenufa in 2009 and Der fliegende Holländer in 2010. This summer he makes his debut at the Theater an der Wien with The Marriage of Figaro. His close association with Royal Danish Opera began with La Clemenza di Tito in 2004 and continues in the next two seasons with a new production of Figaro and Don Carlos.

In recent seasons has worked with the Minnesota, Dallas, Houston, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Danish National Radio Symphony, Gulbenkian, National Orchestra of Porto, Melbourne and West Australian Symphony Orchestras. Reinvitations during the next two seasons include [[Finnish Radio Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, [[Danish Opera Orchestra and Utah Symphony and this Spring he makes his debut with the Gothenburg and Galicia Symphony Orchestras.

Graeme Jenkins studied conducting at the Royal College of Music having previously read music at the University of Cambridge. He worked with Norman Del Mar and Sir David Willcocks, and as an Adrian Boult Conducting Scholar directed Britten's Albert Herring and The Turn of the Screw. He lives in Dorset with his wife Joanna and their daughters Martha and Isabella.