Joseph Vandernoot (18 October 1914 – 7 June 1999) was a British conductor who worked with many orchestras and opera companies, and was one of the earliest conductors of opera at the
Holland Park open-air theatre in London.
After studying at Guildhall School of Music and the
Royal College of Music
The Royal College of Music (RCM) is a conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK. It offers training from the undergraduate to the doctoral level in all aspects of Western Music including pe ...
, Vandernoot joined the Royal Artillery and worked for some time for
ENSA.
For five years Vandernoot was the Musical Director of
Ballet Rambert
Rambert (known as Rambert Dance Company before 2014) is a leading British dance company. Formed at the start of the 20th century as a classical ballet company, it exerted a great deal of influence on the development of dance in the United Kingd ...
. He also conducted the
Orchestre National de Monte Carlo and the Valencia Provincial Orchestra.
Vandernoot was the musical director of the
Fulham Municipal Orchestra for nearly 30 years, and of the Hammersmith Municipal Opera, the first municipal opera company in Great Britain. With these two ensembles he gave the UK premiere of Puccini's opera
''Edgar'' (1905 version) in
Fulham Town Hall in 1967.
In 1973 he recorded Sullivan's
''Ivanhoe'' with the Beaufort Opera, and the recording was released by the "Rare Recorded Editions" and "Legends" labels.
He founded the Opera Lirica which performed at the Holland Park open-air theatre from 1987, and also founded the Kew Sinfonia.
References
Related websites
Fulham Symphony Orchestra(amateur orchestra, formerly the Fulham Municipal Orchestra)
Kew Sinfonia
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British male conductors (music)
1914 births
1999 deaths
20th-century British conductors (music)
20th-century British male musicians