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Frank Shipway was born on 9 July, 1935, is a Frank Edwin Shipway was British conductor British conductor. Discover Frank Shipway's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?

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1935

Frank Edwin Shipway (9 July 1935 – 6 August 2014) was a British conductor.

Shipway was born in 1935 in Birmingham.

He studied piano first with his father and then with Alisa Verity.

He earned a scholarship to The Royal College of Music to study piano and later switched to conducting.

Shipway was further trained by John Barbirolli and attended masterclasses with Herbert von Karajan, modelling his style after Karajan's own.

1963

In 1963, Shipway became music director of the South-West Essex Symphony Orchestra, soon renamed the Forest Philharmonic Society (FPS), which he would lead until 1991.

1973

His first professional conducting position was with the Berlin Opera in 1973 as assistant conductor to Lorin Maazel.

He also worked with the Glyndebourne Festival Opera and the English National Opera in this period and developed an operatic repertoire largely from the Classical and Romantic periods.

1991

In 1991, Shipway formed the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI in Italy and served as its chief conductor for four years.

1996

From 1996 to 1999 he was chief conductor and artistic director of BRT Philharmonic Orchestra in Brussels, and then of the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra.

He also served as guest conductor with the Cleveland Orchestra, Teatro alla Scala Orchestra, and the Moscow, Helsinki and Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestras.

For several years prior to his death, Shipway was a frequent guest conductor with the São Paulo State Symphony; he made two recordings with the orchestra for BIS Records and was considered for the post of musical director upon the departure of John Neschling.

In addition to conducting, Shipway gave masterclasses and served on the juries of a number of international competitions including the Nikolai Malko and Arturo Toscanini conducting competitions.

2014

Shipway died on 6 August 2014 of injuries sustained in a car accident in Wedhampton, Wiltshire, England.

He was 79.

Shipway's only recordings were made with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the São Paulo State Symphony.

His recordings of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 5 and Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 are particularly well regarded.

The Strauss recording was a finalist for BBC Music Magazine's Best Orchestral Recording of 2014.