British conductor Angus Webster opens the 2024/25 season making his debut with the Bergische Symphoniker conducting Sofia Gubaidulina’s ‘Märchenpoem’ and Schubert’s 4th Symphony. He also makes his Czech debut conducting the Prague Philharmonia in Shostakovich’s 1st Cello Concerto with István Várdai and Schumann’s 2nd Symphony.
Webster also returns to the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra with Dvorák’s Carnival Overture, Kisielewski’s ‘Fun-Fair’ Suite, and Britten’s ‘Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra’, and the Ulster Orchestra for Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto with Rosanne Philippens, Arensky’s ‘Tchaikovsky Variations’, and Rachmaninoff’s 2nd Symphony.
Recent highlights for Webster include concerts with the Philharmonia, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Tokyo Symphony, and Bruckner Orchestra Linz. He also worked on the musical staff at Glyndebourne Opera for productions of Mozart’s ‘Così fan tutte’ in 2021, ‘Le nozze di Figaro’ in 2022, and Britten’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ in 2023.
This season sees the release of the first of two recordings by Webster with violinist Irène Duval: it features sonatas for violin and piano by Fauré and Enescu and will be released by Capriccio. A second album of violin concertos by Fauré, Hahn, and Schumann with Webster conducting the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León will be released next year.
Born in 1999, Webster learned many formative lessons at the International Musicians Seminar, Prussia Cove. He studied piano with Alasdair Beatson and Claudio Martínez Mehner. After winning top prizes at the Panula International Conducting Competition in 2018, Webster studied with Esa-Pekka Salonen at the Colburn School in Los Angeles.