Catherine Larsen-Maguire – conductor
- Music Director, National Youth Orchestras of Scotland
A consummate artist who combines an innate musicality with a superlative technique, and an astute musical ear with an infectious dynamism on the podium, Catherine Larsen-Maguire has become a sought-after conductor throughout Europe and in Central and South America. Her performances have been praised by critics as ‘charged with recreative energy, flexible tempi, scrupulous balance and interpretative reach’ (The Arts Desk) and ‘difficult to think of a more committed, deeply involved and precise direction than that of Larsen-Maguire’ (Scherzo). Particularly in demand for the clarity she brings to the romantic British repertoire, she remains supremely versatile, equally at home with Haydn, Brahms, Elgar or Mahler as with works by the composers of today.
The closeness of the relationships she forms with orchestras and their audiences is reflected in the frequency of Catherine Larsen-Maguire’s re-invitations; in the 2022-23 season she returned to the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife, Slovenian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Chambre de Genève and Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM in Mexico City, and made a number of spectacular debuts, most notably with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle, Orquesta de Extremadura and Filarmónica de Jalisco. 2023-24 sees returns to the Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle, Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin, Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa and Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM and the same season includes debuts with the Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie, Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra, Orchestre de Chambre Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra.
Contact:
Nicolas Papageorgiou (Director)
Aude-Marie Auphan (Director)
Videos
Debussy, Tailleferre, Ravel (Feb 2023)
Young Israel Philharmonic, July 2022
Young Israel Philharmonic, July 2022
Scottish Chamber Orchestra, September 2020
Sunflower Festival Chamber Orchestra, Jun 2017
Sunflower Festival Chamber Orchestra, Jun 2017