Geoffrey Styles conducted the concert with exemplary integrity and humility.

– Sud-Ouest, June 2006

 

 

 

Geoffrey Styles is a young British conductor whose proficiency, musicianship and winning personality are earning him a fine reputation in the music-making world.

 

Working across a range of genres, Geoffrey Styles is particularly at home in the operatic sphere and commands a repertoire of over forty operas, from Glück to Mozart to Stravinsky to Britten. In September 2002, he was appointed Associate Conductor for the Opéra National de Bordeaux.

 

Geoffrey started his musical training as Organ Scholar at Westminster Abbey with Simon Preston, and subsequently read Music at the University of Oxford with Stephen Darlington, as Organ Scholar at Christchurch. After two years as Repetiteur at the Opéra National de Paris, Geoffrey was invited by Alain Lombard to join the staff of the Grand-Théâtre de Bordeaux as Assistant Chorus-Master under Günther Wagner, a position that he held until 2002.

 

Geoffrey Styles opens his 09/10 season with Rite of Spring and Petrushka for the Opéra National de Bordeaux. Following a successful collaboration with the orchestra of Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos in Lisbon with Messiaen’s Turangalila, Geoffrey Styles has been re-invited there to conduct not only Dido & Aeneas in July, but also Giselle in December. Other highlights of the season include concerts with the Strasbourg Philharmonic and virtuoso percussionist Alasdair Malloy.

 

In recent seasons, Geoffrey Styles has collaborated on two Ring cycles with the operas of Lisbon and Strasbourg and given highly successful performances with the Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra and l’Orchestre National de Bordeaux. He finishes the 08/09 season by conducting and recording Coppélia at the Opéra National de Bordeaux.

 

Previous successes in Geoffrey Styles’s career have included the world première of Zatoïchi by Christian Lauba at the Opéra National de Bordeaux in November 2007. The performances were highly acclaimed by the international press and were broadcast worldwide by satellite and cable channels in 2008. In May 2005, Geoffrey gave the first performance of La Voix de la Mémoire, Paroles de Déportés, an oratorio by Daniel Galay to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps.

 

Geoffrey collaborates regularly with other opera houses of great repute around the world, including: the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (The Rake’s Progress, 2001); the Châtelet (la Fiancée du Tsar, 2004); the Bregenzer Festspiele (Blaubart, 2006); and l’Opéra National du Rhin (Boris Godunov, 2007).