Joe Davies
Programme: Serena Fenwick programme
Discipline: Conductor
Year: 2025
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Orchestral Conducting, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, 2020
Music, Oxford University, 2018
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Assistant Conductor, English Symphony Orchestra
Musical Director, UK Proms in the Park
Artistic Director, Cumbria Opera Festival 2021 (Cosi fan Tutte, Trouble in Tahiti, A Hand of Bridge), Cumbria Opera Group
Artistic Director, Cumbria Opera Festival 2023 (Don Giovanni, La Voix Humaine), Cumbria Opera Group
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“I'm a Conductor based in London but working around the UK, principally with the English Symphony Orchestra, Cumbria Opera Group, and the UK Proms in the Park Orchestra. I've been an Opera fanatic for as long as I can remember, founding an Opera Company in my native Cumbria when I was 19. The diversity and variety of Opera is what draws me to it: the possibilities are endless!
I'm a proud Cumbrian and love pretty much everything that comes from God's County: Ben Stokes, Emlyn Hughes, Liam Livingstone, and the art rock band Everything Everything. When I'm not doing music, I'm probably found memorising pointless cricket statistics, or reminiscing over Liverpool FC matches from the Gerrard Houllier era.”