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In Autumn 2026 John will be reunited with the Royal Ballet Sinfonia for a concert of English masterpieces including Britten’s Serenade with Ed Lyon and Alexei Watkins. After a triumphant Mozart in May, he will take Baroquestock firmly into the 19th Century with a concert around Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony, and after many Covid–postponements will be recording Sullivan’s late comic opera The Chieftain with the BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Singers.
Avril Coleridge-Taylor and beyond
John’s collaboration with Samantha Ege and the BBC Philharmonic on works by Avril Coleridge-Taylor including her Piano Concerto was released in the Autumn 2026 on Resonus Classics to huge acclaim. It was Disc of the Week on Essential Classics and spent three weeks in the Classical Charts. John and Samantha will be performing the Piano Concerto together in May with the St Pauls Sinfonia, and reuniting in the studio with the BBC Concert Orchestra for a further disc of concertos in September 2026.
Manchester Camerata
John returned to the Manchester Camerata in 2026 after their earlier Poulenc collaboration to conduct concerts at the RNCM, Stoller Hall and Kings Place. The first included Doreen Carwithen’s Concerto for Piano and Strings with Alexandra Dariescu; the second centred on Sir Peter Maxwell-Davies’s Eight Songs for a Mad King, performed by Rose Middleton and was described as “Brutal, brilliant music-theatre” by the Guardian.
FUTURE Releases
2026-7 will see the release of several recent recordings, including the Carwithen Piano Concerto with Alexandra Dariescu and the Manchester Camerata for Resonus Classics; the long Covid-postponed premiere of Sullivan’s The Martyr of Antioch with the BBC Symphony Chorus for Dutton; and Dyson’s Violin Concerto with Charlie Lovell-Jones and the BBC Concert Orchestra.
A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE
In Autumn 2026, John will conduct the world-premiere of Errollyn Wallen’s new community Opera ‘A Christmas Miracle’ directed by Freddie Wake-Walker opening at Snape Maltings and then travelling to Orkney.
SUMMER 2026
As well as returning to Buxton for The Mikado, and the English music festival with the London Mozart Players, John will conduct a gala concert at West Green House featuring Jenny Stafford, Katie Bray and the Orchestra of English National Opera.
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