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unusual facts about George Hurst


George Hurst

Hurst formed the Bournemouth Sinfonietta in 1968 and was their artistic adviser until 1974.


Orlando Jopling

After a music degree from Cambridge University, Orlando studied with Sir Colin Davis, George Hurst and Colin Metters at the RAM and Diego Masson at Dartington.

Rumon Gamba

He studied music at Durham University, and then went to the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he studied conducting with Colin Metters, George Hurst and Sir Colin Davis.

St Giles Orchestra

He has studied conducting with George Hurst and Adrian Leaper at Canford Summer School of Music, and is well known in Oxfordshire as a player of French horn and double bass, and as composer of mainly romantic style pieces ranging from small ensembles to large-scale symphonic works.


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Steven Karidoyanes

He holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from Boston University and received training in orchestral conducting at the Canford School of Music in Dorset, England, where he studied with the renowned British conducting coach, George Hurst.