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Archive (Aug '24 -Dec '25)

3 December 2025

Conductor

Clare College Music Society: Orchestral Workshop

Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll

Clare College Chapel, Cambridge

2 December 2025

Assistant Conductor

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment &

The Choir of Clare College Cambridge

Handel: Messiah

Conductor: Graham Ross

West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

1 December 2025

Conductor

Cambridge University Symphony Orchestra

Nicolai: Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor^

Tchaikovsky: Suite to The Sleeping Beauty^

Puccini: Intermezzo to Manon Lescaut*

Beethoven: Symphony No.6, Pastorale*

Conductors: Isabel Lee^ & Isaac Chan*

West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

17-23 November 2025

Assistant Conductor

Cambridge University Orchestra

Boulanger: D'un soir triste

Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 1

Dvorak: Symphony No. 8

Conductor: Bertie Baigent

Piano: Eliza Ruffle

West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

11 November 2025

Conductor

Cambridge University Lunchtime Concert: 

The Soldier's Tale 

Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale

Narrator: Hugo Williamson

West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

5-8 November 2025

Repetiteur / Assistant Conductor

Outcry Ensemble: The Pity of War

Britten: War Requiem

Conductor: James Henshaw

Chorusmaster: Tim Brown

Southwark Cathedral, London

1 November 2025

Conductor

Lady Clare's Consort & Ensemble

Mahler: Rückert-Lieder

Josquin: Deploration

Thurlow, Jeremy: Mass 'Earthquake in the Soul' (world premiere)

Soprano: Edie Behr

Chorus Director: Daniel Blaze

Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge

21-25 October 2025

Repetiteur

Cambridge University Orchestra

Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Conductor: Jac van Steen

Director: Anne Sutton

West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

23 July 2025

Cover Conductor / Assistant Conductor

Vienna Opera Festival

Mozart: Cosi fan tutte

Bizet: Carmen

Director: Tim Claydon / Juliana Berezhnaya

 

Vienna Grand Hotel

20-27 July 2025

Assistant Conductor / Continuo

Vienna Opera Festival

Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro

Bizet: Carmen

Conductors: Toby Purser & Dominic Wheeler

Vienna Grand Hotel

23-29 June 2025

Repetiteur / Assistant Conductor

Chetham's School of Music

Ravel: L'enfant et les sortileges

Conductor: Lee Reynolds

Coach: Timothy Redmond & Marcus Farnsworth

17 June 2025

Repetiteur

Pegasus Choir

Bernstein: Chichester Psalms

Britten: A.M.D.G.

Chorusmaster: Tim Brown

St. Lawrence's Church, London

12-14 June 2025

Assistant Conductor

East Anglia Chamber Orchestra &

Cambridge University Symphony Chorus

Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem

Conductor: David Young

Saffron Hall

21 May 2025

Conductor

Cambridge University Symphony Orchestra

A programme featuring a new orchestration of Strauss' op.10 Lieder 'aus Letzte Blätter and more.

Conductors: Isaac Chan^ & Ed Gertler*

Mezzo-soprano: Doraly Gill / Tenor: Harry Gant

West Road Concert Hall

25-27 April 2025

Student Conductor

Manchester Camerata & RNCM Masterclass

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

Stravinsky: Petrushka

Coaches: Nicolas Pasquet & Mark Heron

14 March 2025

Conductor

Clare College Music Society: Before and After Summer

Berlioz: Les nuits d'ete

Copland: Quiet City

Copland: Appalachian Spring suite

Conductor: Isaac Chan

Mezzo-soprano: Isabella Theodosius / Tenor: Harry Gant

Cor anglais: Emily Long / Trumpet: Edward Hinchliff

Clare College Chapel, Cambridge

10 March 2025

Conductor

Cambridge University Symphony Orchestra

Gershwin: Cuban Overture*

Bernstein: Symphonic Dances*

Brahms: Symphony No. 3^

Conductors: Isaac Chan^ & Ed Gertler*

West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

1 February 2025

Conductor

Trinity College Music Society: Mahler 4

Mahler: Blumine

Mahler: Symphony No.4 in G major

Soprano: Edie Behr

Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge

2 December 2024

Conductor

Cambridge University Symphony Orchestra

Beethoven: Overture to Fidelio^

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major^

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade*

Conductors: Isaac Chan^ & Ed Gertler*

Violin: Flora Clapham

West Road Concert Hall

9 November 2024

Conductor

Trinity College Music Society: Faure Requiem

A full-orchestral performance of Gabriel Faure's Requiem in D minor, celebrating the centenary of the composer's death.

Soprano: Anna Williams

Baritone: Toby Barnett

Organ: Eben Eyres

Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge

7 November 2024

Conductor

Clare College Music Society: Orchestral Concert

A programme centred around Beethoven's Symphony No. 5.

West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

1-2 November 2024

Conductor

The Soldier's Tale 

Stravinsky: L'histoire du Soldat

Narrator: Henry Montgomery

Director: Sohan Kalirai

Guest Speaker: Rajan Lal

West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

12 October 2024

Conductor

Cambridge University Brass Ensemble:

45th Anniversary Concert

Featuring CUBE members past and present.

Director: Chris Lawrence

Pembroke Auditorium, Cambridge

9 August 2024

Conductor

Hong Kong Youth Philharmonia: Summer Concert

A programme centred around Mahler's first symphony, Titan.

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Collaborative Piano

27 November 2025, Corpus Christi College Chapel, Cambridge

Amuse-Bouche: 20th-century French choral music

Conductor: Robert Holingworth

Piano (music director): Isaac Chan

Programme including Ravel's Adagio from Piano Concerto in G, Don Quichotte a Dulcinee, and other late romantic French Chanson.

14-15 November 2025, Clare College Chapel, Cambridge

Schubert: Winterreise

Mezzo-soprano: Adrianna Forbes-Dorant, Isabella Theodosius

Baritone: Thomas Alban, Will Bennet (stage director)

Piano (music director): Isaac Chan

28 October 2025, West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

30 October 2025, Old Divinity School, St. John's College

Programme of Elizabethan art song

  incl. Quilter, Britten, Howells, etc.

Tenor: Harry Gant

27 October 2025, Clare College Cambridge

4 November 2025, Murray Edwards College Cambridge

16 November 2025, Selwyn College Cambridge

Brahms: Clarinet Sonata no.1 in F minor

Brahms: Viola Sonata no.2 in E-flat major

Clarinet: Tommaso Vigliocco

Viola: Annabel Marshall

19 October 2025, Clare College Cambridge (in association with the Chapel Choir)

26 October 2025, All Saints' Church

Programme featuring Strauss' Violin Sonata

Violin: Tara Spencer

15 October 2025, Clare College Cambridge

16 October 2025, St. John's College Cambridge

Schumann: Liederkreis, op.39 (Eichendorff)

Schumann: Dichterliebe, op.48 (Heine)

Baritone: Thomas Alban

Bass: William Bennet

24 July 2025, Mozarthaus Vienna

Vienna Opera Festival: Recital

Featuring Italian arias by Mozart and more.

Artists include Andrei Maksimov (Wiener Staatsoper) and more.

9 March 2025, Clare College Cambridge

19 May 2025, Clare College Cambridge

17 June 2025, West Road Concert Hall

A programme highlighting Rachmaninoff's Cello Sonata in G minor.

Cello: Raphael Herberg

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