Paul MacAlindin
Welcome to my blog about being a musician today. In each of these stories, there have been fantastic lessons to learn and people to meet. Please feel free to dive in and find something of value to you.
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Paul
Paul MacAlindin has worked throughout Europe as a classical orchestral conductor, education project leader and as a coach and accompanist for choirs and opera singers in Cologne . With Psappha, the north of England's main new music group, he has conducted many concerts in the Royal Northern College of Music, the Cheltenham International Music Festival, Sonorities Festival in Belfast, Edinburgh Contemporary Arts Trust, World Music Days 1998 and the St. Magnus Festival in Orkney. He has also toured with Icebreaker Ensemble in Vienna, Warsaw Autumn Festival, Vilnius Baltic Festival and the "Cutting Edge at the Warehouse" in London . With NYOS Futures, the new music project of the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland, he has performed and presented public workshops on Julian Anderson's Khorovod and Karen Tanaka’s Wave Mechanics. As the assistant to renowned British composer, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, and conductor Elgar Howarth, he has worked with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, The National Youth Orchestra of Wales, the BBC Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Philharmonia of London. With the British Council, he has conducted Maxwell Davies' "The Turn of the Tide" at the Zagreb Biennale with 500 Zagreb school children and the Croatian Radio Orchestra. He has taken part in masterclasses led by Vladimir Ponkin with Staatskapelle Weimar, and the Musin Masterclass in St Petersburg with Oleg Proskurnya and Leonid Korchmar. He regularly guests with the Armenian Philharmonic and NYOS Futures. Most recently, he has worked with video artist, Mike Newman, and the Oulu Sinfonia of Finland on the multimedia version of Maxwell Davies' Antarctic Symphony.