TIMOTHY VERNON, conductor
Timothy
Vernon is Music Director and Principal Conductor of Orchestra London
and is the Founder and Artistic Director of Pacific Opera Victoria. As
a guest conductor he has been engaged by Calgary Philharmonic, Vancouver
Symphony, Edmonton Symphony, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Winnipeg and
Toronto symphonies and Ottawa’s Thirteen Strings. He has also appeared with
Symphony Nova Scotia, the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra and with the Montreal
Symphony at the Lanaudière
Festival.
Maestro Vernon’s creative imagination in opera was honored in 2005, when he received the prestigious Ruby at the annual Opera Canada Awards Ceremony. This season he will be on the podium for Edmonton Opera’s Don Giovanni and the Pacific Opera Victoria and Orchestra London productions of this same masterpiece. In recent seasons he has been engaged as guest conductor by the Montreal Symphony, Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra and the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa conducting Ben Heppner and Pinchas Zukerman in a gala concert seen on CBC and filmed for worldwide television distribution.
Internationally renowned for his work with young musicians, he conducted the McGill Symphony in an ecstatically received performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 5 in Montréal, now released as a CD on the Fonovox label. Previously Vernon conducted the McGill Orchestra in acclaimed performances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Roy Thomson Hall, the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Le Grande Théâtre de Québec and Montréal's Place des Arts. The orchestra's recording of Korngold's Symphony in F sharp, recorded live in Carnegie Hall, is distributed by Polygram and was nominated for a Juno Award.