The Bardi Wind Orchestra
David Calow
Musical Director
David Calow was born and educated in Leicestershire, receiving his early musical training from the Leicestershire School of Music where he played flute in the Senior Concert Band. He also played flute and piccolo in The National Youth Wind Orchestra from 1978-84, under the baton of Harry Legge, a renowned expert on the Symphonic Band repertoire. David studied Graphics at Leeds graduating in 1983, and is now Creative Director of Calow Craddock design and Illustration studio in Leicester.
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On returning to Leicester after college, David founded the wind ensemble ‘Musicamici’, which he has conducted for over 20 years and now divides his musical life between conducting and playing flute and piccolo with the Bardi Symphony Orchestra, Rutland Sinfonia and the Trio “Tea for Three†with Robert Calow and Marguerite Beatson. David became Music Director of the Bardi Wind Orchestra in 1996. Recent years have seen David increasingly in demand as a conductor elsewhere working with the Rutland Sinfonia, Warwick Orchestral Winds and The University of Leicester Orchestra and Wind Band.
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An interest in the theatre and in particular musicals lead David to conduct musicals by Roger Jones and productions of Jesus Christ Superstar and Godspell. In 1995 David was appointed Music Director of the I.D.O.L.S Operatic Group for their Little Theatre production of “South Pacific†and over the following ten years directed“ Seven Brides for Seven Brothersâ€, “Oklahoma!â€,“The King and I, “Guys & Dollsâ€, “Mack and Mabelâ€, “Anything Goes†and “Kiss Me Kateâ€. David also worked with the production team and cast on 3 original shows and the critically acclaimed Little Theatre premiere of “The Best Little Whore House in Texasâ€. In 2007 David was appointed Associate Conductor of the Rutland Sinfonia. He has continued to develop the adventurous concert programming for the Sinfonia with recent concert performances of the rarely heard Horn Concerto by Franz Strauss, a completed version of Schubert’s “Unfinished†Symphony and in the forthcoming 35th Anniversary Season, theMidlands Premiere of Prof. Brian Newbould’s realisation of Schubert’s 7th Symphony. The highlight of David’s career was to compose the fanfare and arrange the national anthem, with his brother Robert, for the Bardi SymphonyOrchestra’s Royal Jubilee concert in 2003. This was subsequently performed to herald the entrance of Her Majesty the Queen when she opened the Nottingham Ice Centre later that year.
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