FinneganDownie Dear
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For availability and general enquiries:
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About Finnegan
Music Director: Shadwell
The 24/25 season sees Finnegan make debuts with the Staatskapelle Dresden, Warsaw Philharmonic, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Swedish Chamber Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra; he returns to the Staatskapelle Berlin, Athens State Orchestra and Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. On the opera podium, he returns to the Staatsoper Berlin for Le nozze di Figaro, the Staatsoper Hamburg for Falstaff and leads the world premiere of Miroslav Srnka's Voice Killer in his debut at Theater an der Wien.
Recent symphonic highlights include engagements with Camerata Salzburg, Kammerakademie Potsdam, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Rotterdam Philharmonic.
Opera highlights include The Makropulos Case at Staatsoper Berlin, Eugene Onegin at Staatsoper Hamburg, Macbeth at the State Opera of South Australia, Die tote Stadt at Polish National Opera, Hänsel und Gretel at Deutsche Oper am Rhein and Korea National Opera, Le nozze di Figaro at Royal Swedish Opera and Gerald Barry's Alice's Adventures Underground at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Future plans include his return to Covent Garden and debuts at Victorian Opera and Garsington Opera.
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Season Highlights
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Finnegan Downie Dear conducts Mahler Symphony No. 4, Mvt. 3
Having won first prize at the Mahler Competition, Finnegan Downie Dear conducts the Bamberger Symphoniker in the third movement of Mahler's Fourth Symphony. The performance is part of the final concert of the competition. Credit: Mahler Competition
PlayingFinnegan Downie Dear conducts Mahler Symphony No.4, Mvt. 1
Having won first prize at the Mahler Competition, Finnegan Downie Dear conducts the Bamberger Symphoniker in the first movement of Mahler's Fourth Symphony. The performance is part of the final concert of the competition. Credit: Mahler Competition
PlayingFinnegan Downie Dear rehearses Webern Variations for Orchestra
Finnegan Downie Dear rehearsing Webern Variations for Orchestra Op. 30 with the Bamberger Symphoniker at the Mahler Competition, July 2020 Credit: Mahler Competition
PlayingFinnegan Downie Dear conducts Miroslav Srnka world premiere
Having won first prize at the Mahler Competition, Finnegan Downie Dear conducts the Bamberger Symphoniker in the world premiere of Miroslav Srnka's 'move 04 ' Memory Full'. The performance is part of the final concert of the competition. Credit: Mahler Competition
PlayingFinnegan Downie Dear conducts an excerpt from Ravel's Ma mère l'Oye with his Shadwell Opera Company.
Credit: Shadwell
PlayingFinnegan Downie Dear conducts excerpts from The Lighthouse by Peter Maxwell Davies
Credit: Shadwell
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News
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Finnegan Downie Dear debuts with Staatskapelle Dresden
Finnegan Downie Dear debuts with Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Finnegan Downie Dear debuts at Staatsoper Hamburg
Finnegan Downie Dear returns to Staatskapelle Berlin
Finnegan Downie Dear debuts with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Finnegan Downie Dear debuts at Wiener Konzerthaus with Camerata Salzburg
Finnegan Downie Dear debuts in Japan
Finnegan Downie Dear debuts at Staatsoper Berlin
Finnegan Downie Dear makes US debut with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Finnegan Downie Dear debuts with the Hallé
Finnegan Downie Dear debuts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Finnegan Downie Dear debuts with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Finnegan Downie Dear debuts with Gothenburg Symphony
In conversation with Finnegan Downie Dear following Mahler Competition win
Finnegan Downie Dear & Harry Ogg take home Mahler Competition prizes
Finnegan Downie Dear makes conducting debut at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Press
Harvey, Williams, Weinberg, Schubert 5
Tapiola SinfoniettaOct 2024Under the leadership of the fine British conductor Finnegan Downie Dear, the orchestra skilfully and sensitively reached the tonal character of each piece. Downie Dear led the closing number of the concert, Schubert's symphony in B-flat major, with his expressive hands, with a luminous flow, in the spirit of Mozart, but also Beethoven and Haydn. An anxious minuet refreshingly broke the feeling of security.
- Hannu-Ilari Lampila, Helsingin Sanomat
- 25 October 2024