Frank shipway shostakovich biography
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Frank Shipway
Frank Edwin Shipway (9 July 1935 – 6 August 2014) was a British conductor.
Frank shipway shostakovich biography
Early life
Shipway was born in 1935 in Birmingham.[1] He studied piano first with his father and then with Alisa Verity. He earned a scholarship to The Royal College of Music to study piano and later switched to conducting.[2] Shipway was further trained by John Barbirolli and attended masterclasses with Herbert von Karajan, modelling his style after Karajan's own.[1]
Career
In 1963, Shipway became music director of the South-West Essex Symphony Orchestra, soon renamed the Forest Philharmonic Society (FPS), which he would lead until 1991.[1] His first professional conducting position was with the Berlin Opera in 1973 as assistant conductor to Lorin Maazel.
He also worked with the Glyndebourne Festival Opera and the English National Opera in this period and developed an operatic repertoire largely from the Classical and Romantic periods.[