Meurig Bowen

Meurig Bowen (born 5 December 1965) is artistic director of the Cheltenham Music Festival.

Bowen was educated at William Ellis School, London, and King's College, Cambridge, where he was a choral scholar (1985–88). After a period working in Australia as artistic administrator of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, he returned to the UK as director of the Lichfield Festival,[1] and subsequently head of programming at the Aldeburgh Festival, before taking up his present post at Cheltenham, where he succeeded Martyn Brabbins, in 2007.[2]

Bowen is also a music journalist and commentator[3] who regularly writes for the national press,[4] and he also writes distinctive CD liner notes, notably on the Hyperion label.[5]

Notes

  1. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/stage/2003/05/lichfield_festival.shtml
  2. ↑ "Meurig Bowen Announces The 2008 Cheltenham Music Festival Programme". www.classicalsource.com Limited. 6 April 2008. Retrieved 2009-12-16.
  3. ↑ Bowen, Meurig (22 August 2005). "The music that dare not speak its name". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 12 May 2010.
  4. ↑ http://www.journalisted.com/meurig-bowen
  5. ↑ http://www.musicalcriticism.com/recordings/cd-poulenc-0308.shtml

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Preceded by
Martyn Brabbins		 Artistic Director, Cheltenham Music Festival
2007– 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
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