Paul McCreesh, founder and Artistic Director of the Gabrieli Consort and Players, has established himself at the highest level in the period instrument field and is recognised for his authoritative and innovative performances on the concert platform and in the opera house. Together with the Gabrieli Consort and Players, Paul McCreesh has performed in major concert halls and festivals across the world and has built a large and distinguished discography for Deutsche Grammophon. 
 
Paul McCreesh now works regularly with modern instrument orchestras. Recent successes have included engagements with DSO Berlin, RSO Berlin, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, San Francisco Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony, Stockholm Philharmonic and Beethovenhalle Bonn, with whom he conducted a series of three concerts throughout the 2004/5 series. In the same season, McCreesh made his debut with Netherlands Philharmonic and Orchestra Sinfonica dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia di Roma both of which led to immediate reinvitations for the following seasons. He continues to develop his relationship with Kammerorchester Basel and l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and appears regularly with both orchestras.
 
McCreesh has also established a strong reputation in the field of opera. He has conducted Gluck's Orphée et Eurydice and Handel’s Jephtha for WNO both to considerable critical acclaim. This achievement was followed by The Magic Flute for the Royal Danish Opera, and a new staging by David Alden of Handel’s Alcina at the Komische Oper, Berlin.  
 
Recent engagements have included debuts with Budapest Festival Orchestra, Swedish Chamber Orhcestra and Musikkolegium Winterthur, and also with Orquesta Nacional de Espana and Orquesta Sinfonica de Euskadi, to whom he returns next season. Forthcoming engagements include debuts with Stavanger Symphony, Monte Carlo Philharmonic, Prague Philharmonia, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and the Tonhalle orchestra, Zurich.
 
The Gabrieli Consort and Players continue their residency in London at Christ Church, Spitalfields following a successful first season. Concerts encompass a great breadth of repertoire, from the liturgical reconstructions of sacred music of the Italian Renaissance for which the ensemble originally became known, to performances and recordings such as the Mozart C Minor Mass with Camilla Tilling and Sarah Connolly. Their other recent recordings for Deutsche Grammophon include the rarely performed Gluck’s Paride ed Elena and Handel’s Saul, described in The Times as “one of the most roundly satisfying Handel oratorio performances for some time.”

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