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James Burton was born on 1974 in London, United Kingdom, is a British conductor and composer. Discover James Burton'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 50 years old?
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James Burton Net Worth
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James Burton (born 1974) is a British conductor and composer.
He is currently the Boston Symphony Orchestra Choral Director and Conductor of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus.
He also holds the position of Director of Orchestral Activities and Master Lecturer in Music at Boston University.
Born in London, Burton studied at Westminster Abbey Choir School and he became head chorister of the Choir of Westminster Abbey in 1987.
He was awarded a music scholarship to Radley College, and a choral scholarship to St John's College, Cambridge, where his initial interest in conducting was encouraged by Christopher Robinson.
From 2002 to 2009 he was Choral Director at the Hallé Orchestra and Conductor of the Hallé Choir, winning the Gramophone Choral Award in 2009 for a recording of Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius.
Burton has worked frequently with young musicians, and is currently the conductor of the Boston Symphony Children's Choir.
He founded the Hallé Youth Choir in 2003, and from 2002 to 2017 he was the music director of Schola Cantorum of Oxford,[12] leading the choir on international tours, recordings on the Hyperion label[13] and appearing in BBC TV films about British composers made by John Bridcut.[14]He founded the Schola Cantorum of Oxford conducting scholarship in 2011.
Burton was music director of the St. Endellion Easter Festival from 2007 to 2013, succeeding Richard Hickox.
Burton's compositions are published by Edition Peters.
He has conducted opera performances at English National Opera, English Touring Opera, and Garsington Opera where he won the Leonard Ingrams award in 2008.
Burton's choral conducting has included the Gabrieli Consort, the Choir of the Enlightenment and the Wrocław Philharmonic Choir.
He has received commissions from the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra, Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, the National Portrait Gallery, and the Exon Festival where he was composer in residence in 2015.
His arrangements have been played by the Boston Pops, and he orchestrated the album In Times Like These for American folk singer Arlo Guthrie.
Burton gave his debut with the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico in 2016, and since then has been a frequent guest conductor.
In February 2017 the Boston Symphony Orchestra appointed Burton as Choral Director, a newly created position, and Conductor of the orchestra's Tanglewood Festival Chorus.
Burton gave his Boston Pops Orchestra debut with Holiday Pops concerts at Symphony Hall in December 2017, and his Tanglewood Festival debut was in June 2019 with a Boston Pops concert of the music of Queen with Marc Martel.
In 2017 Burton conducted the BBC Singers at the inaugural season of Dubai's Opera House as part of BBC Proms Dubai.
In 2017 Burton was guest director of Japan's National Youth Choir.
He gave his Boston Symphony subscription series debut in 2018, and in April 2019 he replaced an indisposed Gustavo Dudamel to conduct a series of concerts with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Tanglewood Festival Chorus at Boston Symphony Hall.
Burton founded the Boston Symphony Children's Choir in 2018.
He led performances of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in the Palacio de Bellas Artes to celebrate the orchestra's 90th anniversary in 2018.
In his native UK, Burton has conducted concerts with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Hallé Orchestra, the Orchestra of Scottish Opera, Royal Northern Sinfonia, BBC Concert Orchestra and Manchester Camerata.
