LATEST NEWS - Benjamin Northey wins Limelight Magazine's 'Best Newcomer' award
for best new talent in any field of classical music.
- Benjamin Northey accepted from a world-wide search as one of three conductors to the International Conductor's Academy of
the Allianz Cultural Foundation. The Academy involves a mentorship with the London Philharmonic and the Philharmonia orchestras
for the 2007-8 season.
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Benjamin Northey conducts critically acclaimed performance of Stravinsky's Symphony in C with the LPO in Royal Festival Hall.
"an
engrossing and revealing performance that could not have been followed" - Classical Source
"Northey lifts the music from the conventional, and into the extraordinary. Exciting! A star of the
future."
-Gelfe Dagbladet, Sweden
"Northey is a born conductor, one who revels
in his work...he appears to be in a perpetual state of delight."
- The Age, Australia
"May be one of the great conductors of the very near future."
- Ljusnan, Sweden
"Northey's Brahms first symphony was a colourful
and grandiose balance of form and sonority."
- Helsinki Sanomat, Finland
Northey and his forces produced one of the best
reading's I've heard live of the Vaughan Williams Fantastia on the Theme of Thomas Tallis. You could not have wished for
a more compelling display of this youthful body's high standards."
-The Age, Australia
"Benjamin Northey implored liquid phrasing...conjuring
lightness and freedom."
- The Herald Sun, Australia
"Northey is showing even more assurance after his studies in Helsinki...The
finish and phrasing were carried out with exemplary efficiency in this performance."
- The Age, Australia
"First class conducting."
- The North Shore Times, Sydney
"Northey's eloquently charged and charmingly profound reading (of Mozart Symphony
No 31) has much to commend...impeccable finesse"
- Indaily, Adelaide
