"The New York Collegium clearly made the right
decision in appointing Andrew Parrott its music director: Friday's
performance of Bach's St. John Passion...was consistently fluent,
finely beautiful and movingly expressive."
The New York Times
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Andrew Parrott, Musical
Director and Principal Conductor of the London Mozart Players is the
newly-appointed Music Director of the period-instrument New York
Collegium.
Conductor Andrew Parrott is perhaps best known for his pioneering
recordings of pre-classical repertory from Machaut to Handel,
principally for EMI with the London-based Taverner Consort, Choir and
Players, which he founded in 1973. He has also published major
articles on Monteverdi, Purcell and Bach, and is co-editor of the
700-page New Oxford Book of Carols (1992) and author of The
Essential Bach Choir (2000; German translation: Bachs Chor: Zum
neuen Verständnis 2003).
 Parrott’s
musical range is broader still, however, and the past few years have
seen him conducting Mozart in Barcelona and Toronto, Don Giovanni on
tour in Japan, Beethoven in New York and Stockholm, the Missa Solemnis
in Switzerland, Stravinsky at the BBC’s London Proms and in Flanders,
Bach in Germany, Canada and the United States, renaissance music and
Monteverdi in Edinburgh, baroque music in Prague and new music in
Bratislava.
 Contemporary
music has always been an important part of Parrott’s work and for
several years he was an assistant to Sir Michael Tippett. He conducted
the premiere of Judith Weir’s A Night at the Chinese Opera
(which he has also recorded for NMC with the Scottish Chamber
Orchestra) and has made CDs of new music by other British composers
(including John Tavener), by Vladimír Godár (with the Slovak
Philharmonic Orchestra) and by Arvo Pärt.
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