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Henry Kennedy
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British-Canadian conductor Henry Kennedy has recently completed his one-year tenure as Conductor of Wroclaw Opera where he led a number of productions during the 2022/2023 season including Don Giovanni, Carmen and Les Pêcheurs de Perles.
Since 2017, Henry has been Founder and Music Director of the Resonate Symphony Orchestra. As Music Director, he curated and conducted a number of diverse programmes in some of London’s most prominent concert halls. Upcoming debuts include with the Warsaw Radio Orchestra and Chelsea Opera Group.
Last summer, Henry was Assistant Conductor to Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique for Berlioz’s Les Troyens. Other highlights as Assistant Conductor include when Henry worked with Bassem Akiki in 2022 for the World Premiere of Philippe Boesmans’ final opera On purge bébé at The Royal Theatre of La Monnaie, Brussels. In orchestral repertoire he has assisted conductors such as Marin Alsop, Sir Mark Elder, Edward Gardner, Hannu Lintu, Sir Simon Rattle, Jukka Pekka Saraste, Thomas Sondergard and John Wilson with some of the world’s leading symphony orchestras.
In 2021, Henry was chosen by Riccardo Muti (as one of five conductors) to participate in the “Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy” studying Nabucco. Directly following this, he was asked to replace Riccardo Muti for excerpts of Nabucco in concert performances in the theatres of Rimini and Ravenna.
Henry studied conducting at the Royal Academy of Music, London where he graduated with Distinction.
Selected reviews
“In Generational Relay, Bright Young Maestro Takes Baton And Flies” read full article here - Interview with Matthew Gurewitsch in Classical Voice North America, December 5th 2022
“Both in the first movement and the finale codas the conductor showed a real mastery of pacing and measured crescendo. There was an underlying calm steady beat, a sensitive layering of crescendo, a sense of inexorable progress to the visionary destination. Getting these glorious perorations right is another essential to a great Bruckner performance, and Henry Kennedy knows how to do it.” - Ken Ward, Bruckner Journal, reviewing Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony with Resonate Symphony Orchestra, October 2021
“…It had immediately established the credentials not only of this fine orchestra but above all of a conductor with such fluid expressive movements who could immediately convey his overall vision to his fellow colleagues. It is rare to see such naturally expressive movements that can convey so clearly the shape and style of the mature Mozart.” - Christopher Axworthy Music Commentary, reviewing Mozart Symphony no. 36 with Resonate Symphony Orchestra, February 2020
“A sense of line and overall architectural shape that was so clearly etched. Like Jochum and the great German school the brass was allowed its just weight never overpowering the sumptuous string playing. Playing of silvery lightness that built to tumultuous ravishing fortissimi.” - Christopher Axworthy Music Commentary, reviewing Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony with Resonate Symphony Orchestra, October 2021
“The finale again demonstrated Henry Kennedy’s faultless ability to build the Bruckner Steigerungen - those gripping build-ups – to great effect, and the massive falling octave tutti in the opening paragraph was quite shattering in its power.” - Ken Ward, Bruckner Journal, reviewing Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony with Resonate Symphony Orchestra, October 2021
“Henry Kennedy should stand at the threshold of a successful, even perhaps a glittering career, and those at Smith Square on 15th June 2018 should one day be lucky enough to boast of being there” - Music Club of London
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