Benjamin Northey 
PATRICIA RIORDAN ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR CHAIR, MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
 
 


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“Conductor Benjamin Northey leads the inestimable Orchestra Victoria to a spritely performance (Mozart - Don Giovanni), bringing out the full colour of the score.” Sunday Herald Sun


Debut with Opera Australia conducting Mozart’s Don Giovanni in Sydney and Melbourne. Read the interview with Sounds Like Sydney.



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“...Northey conducted with both intimacy and skill...a perceptive and devoted performance.”  (London Philharmonic Orchestra, Classical Source, London 2010)


“Northey lifts the music from the conventional and into the extraordinary. Exciting! A star of the future.” Gelfe Dagbladet, Sweden


“Northey coaxed a glittering response from his forces...This was a model reading (Strauss Don Juan) that evoked the score’s inherent exuberance with flair”  The West Australian, Perth.


“Northey is a born conductor, one who revels in his work..he appears to be in a state of perpetual delight.” The Age, Melbourne


“...an engrossing and revealing performance...(Stravinsky Symphony in C, LPO)” Classical Source, London


“...that concert was NOT the most painful hour of my life” (Year 7 sports-mad schoolboy, Melbourne)

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