Welcome to the Peter Bassano web site
Peter Bassano Directs
"A Musical Pilgrimage"
Concerts held in HS2 Endangered Historic Buildings
A Concert Held at Hampden House
Saturday 31st March 2010 at 1900hrs.
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Peter Bassano to take part in a new BBC TV Series for Francesco da Mosto Shakespeare in Italy
From October 2011 Peter Bassano has been reappointed as Music Director of the Oxford University Sinfonietta and has accepted a new appointment as Music Director of the Oxford University Brass Band
Bassano’s recording of Monteverdi’s Beatus Vir at no 71 in
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2012 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of Giovanni Gabrieli, the great Venetian composer. In celebration of this event I am offering individual down-loads of tracks from my recording Venice Preserved which contains music by Gabrieli and his contemporaries
** New download section added, click " Downloads" on the right for more information and to access the music downloads **
I am descended from a family of six Venetian musician brothers brought to England by King Henry VIII in 1540 to improve musical life at the English Court. In every generation since Tudor times there have been Bassano musicians. It might be argued that we are the oldest active musical family in the world.
I studied trombone and singing at the Royal College of Music, where after many years as a member of London's Philharmonia Orchestra I was appointed a professor and became a staff conductor and Head of Brass Faculty in 1990, a post I held until August 2004.
Throughout my career I have worked as both conductor and performer, interspersed with periods of study with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Elgar Howarth, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Roger Norrington, Jorma Panula and Bramwell Tovey. I am Music Director of the Oxford University Sinfonietta, The Virtuosi of the Mannheim Court, The Gentlemen of the Chappell, The Equale Baroque Players, Wendover Choral Society, City of Cambridge Band and Oxford Touring Opera. I have appeared as guest conductor with the Helsinki Philharmonic, Royal Omani Symphony, Royal Philharmonic as well as at many conservatoires, choirs and bands around the world.
I hope you enjoy looking around this Web site.
Peter Bassano FRCM HonRCM
