Janice Graham took up her position as Leader of the English National Opera Orchestra in January 2007, combining this with a varied solo and chamber career. She has been the Leader of the English Sinfonia since 1995 and became Artistic Director in 2005. Her previous positions as Leader of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Assistant Leader of the London Symphony Orchestra involved numerous solo broadcasts for BBC Radio 3, chamber performances with Tim Hugh, Moray Welsh, Yuri Bashmet and André Previn and a chamber series for EMI. Early musical influences came from the Purcell School, David Takeno at the Guildhall and Glenn Dicterow at the Juilliard School in New York. She won the Gold Medal of the Shell/LSO competition in 1990 which led to concerto appearances at the Royal Festival Hall, the Barbican and other major London concert venues. Her solo work elsewhere in the United Kingdom has included Symphony Hall, St David’s Hall and Bridgewater Hall. She is a sought after Guest Leader of many British orchestras and ensembles and is a professor at the Royal College of Music.

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