Grant Llewellyn
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Biography
Grant Llewellyn is a Welsh conductor born on December 29, 1960, in Tenby. He studied at Chetham's School of Music and obtained a position at the Tanglewood Music Center in 1985, where he was mentored by Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa. He served as an assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and won second prize in the 1986 Leeds Conducting Competition. Llewellyn was associate conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales from 1990 to 1995 and principal conductor invité of the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra from 1993 to 1996. He served as principal conductor of the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra from 1995 to 1998 and music director of the Handel and Haydn Society from 2001 to 2006. He led the North Carolina Symphony between 2004 and 2018 and the Orchestre National de Bretagne from 2015 to 2023. He directed operas including Jules Massenetâs Manon and Henry Purcellâs Dido and Aeneas. Since a 2021 stroke, Llewellyn has conducted with his left hand.
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- Ballade in A minor, Op.33
- Britten: Symphony for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 68, IV. Passacaglia: Andante allegro featuring Grant Llewellyn
- Symphonic Variations on an African Air, Op.63
- No.2
- Britten: Symphony for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 68, II. Presto inquieto featuring Grant Llewellyn
- No.1
- Britten: Symphony for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 68, I. Allegro maestoso featuring Grant Llewellyn
- Britten: Symphony for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 68, III. Adagio featuring Grant Llewellyn
- The Land of the Mountain and the Flood, Op.3 by Grant Llewellyn
