ALUN FRANCIS is currently Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Orquesta Filarmonica de la UNAM (OFUNAM) in Mexico City. He has previously held positions as Chief or Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Berliner Symphoniker, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Haydn Orchestra Bolzano/Trento, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Opera Forum in The Netherlands, Northwest Chamber Orchestra in Seattle, and the Thuringen Philharmonic Orchestra, plus the Ulster Orchestra and Northern Ireland Opera Trust.
```He continues to be one of the leading conductors working in Europe today, with recent engagements including the Koeln Radio Symphony Orchestra, Radio-Philharmonie Hannover des NDR, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and Duisburg Symphony Orchestra. In the past forty years he has conducted more than two hundred different orchestras and opera companies in more than thirty countries and has appeared regularly in the major musical capitals of the world: Berlin, Vienna, Amsterdam, London and Milan.
Alun Francis has recorded more than eighty CDs which in recent years have included concerts and recordings with the Italian Radio Orchestra (RAI) Turin, Koelner Rundfunk-Sinfonie Orchester, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester of Berlin, the Frankfurter-Radio-Sinfonie Orchester, Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) Hannover, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbruecken, Radio Sinfonie Orchester Basel, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Swedish National Radio Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Florida Philharmonic Orchestra, Halle Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, London.
Alun Francis won First Prize in the category of CD Premiers at Cannes Classical Awards presented during MIDEM in January 2000 for his recordings of the complete symphonies of Darius Milhaud. Highly regarded as a conductor of Bel Canto opera, Alun Francis was invited to direct the world premiere of Donizetti's Gabriella di Vergy in London in 1978. At the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Alun Francis directed Rigoletto in Roman Polanski's production. His Opera repertoire includes over 70 operas. As a composer, Alun Francis has written works for the concert hall, theatre and films, published in London and New York.
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