Born at Southend-on-Sea, Essex, John Georgiadis studied the violin at the Royal Academy of Music and after two and a half years as leader of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra moved to the London Symphony Orchestra, which he led for some eleven years, through two periods between and 1979. An early interest in conducting, supported by study with Sergiu Celibidache, brought an international career in this rÃŽle and appointment in 1991 as Principal Guest Conductor of the Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra. His connection with the London Symphony Orchestra has been continued with conducting engagements with the orchestra in London and in tours to the United States and elsewhere. Since its foundation in 1972 John Georgiadis has been Music Director and Conductor of the London Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra and from 1987 to 1990 played first violin in the Gabrieli Quartet.
