Paul Hoskins, Music Director
Paul Hoskins is Music Director of Rambert Dance Company, for whom he conducts over 70 performances a year; each one includes a newly commissioned piece of music. In 2009 Paul inaugurated the Rambert Music Fellowship, and launched the Rambert Orchestra, receiving critical acclaim for performances at Sadler's Wells of Julian Anderson's The Comedy of Change and Mahler's orchestration of Schubert's Death and the Maiden. In Howard Goodall's Eternal Light (2008/9) Paul conducted 16 different regional choirs in England and Scotland. In 2004 he won a Time Out award for outstanding contribution to dance following the UK première of Steve Reich's Triple Quartet and a tour of Thomas Ades' Living Toys.
Paul has conducted in every major concert hall and opera house in London, and also worked with the BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, English Sinfonia and Northern Chamber Orchestra. He's given concerts in Slovenia, Romania, Germany, Holland, Denmark and the USA. 2009 saw a new collaboration with Britten Sinfonia and Efterklang in live performances of the Parades album in Leeds and at the Barbican, London.
In the theatre, Paul has enjoyed many re-invitations to New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, the Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, and several European theatres. For these and other companies he has conducted the standard 19th Century repertoire, many 18th and 20th Century programmes, and also several world premières. Last year he made his debut with the Royal Swedish Ballet in Stockholm.
Other theatre credits include: the world première of Stephen McNeff's opera Clockwork; well-reviewed classical opera for Bampton Classical Opera and at the Buxton Festival; Edward Scissorhands for Matthew Bourne; Wind in the Willows for William Tuckett at ROH2. He has also assisted at Glyndebourne (Peter Grimes) and ENO (The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant).
As Principal Conductor of Cambridge New Music Players in the 1990's, Paul gave many world premières and broadcasts, and in all his work he continues to champion new pieces by a broad range of composers.
He is an advocate of engaging with audiences young and old, and can regularly be seen talking (and writing) about music and dance for Rambert Dance Company.