Paul Brough's current conducting includes the Britten Sinfonia, Manchester Camerata, Ulster Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Singers. He ended this past season conducting the Ulster Orchestra for the recommissioning of the Ulster Hall organ, the BBC Singers at the Festival des Abbayes Sud-Vendeennes in Nieul-sur-l'Autise, France and the Britten Sinfonia at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford. This year brings many broadcasts for BBC Radio3's 'Composer of the Week', 'Performance on 3' and 'Afternoon on 3' with the BBC Singers.
His seven-season partnership with leading period orchestra 'The Hanover Band'(Principal Conductor 2007-10) won enthusiastic notices in a repertoire of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Weber and Rossini: "A thoroughly brilliant and absorbing performance, sensationally conducted by Brough." - The Independent on Sunday. "Isn't it wonderful when everything goes right?..The Manchester Camerata under Paul Brough have the sort of stylistic adaptability to play Stravinsky..or Haydn's Creation with equal authenticity." - The Yorkshire Post.
For the BBC he has conducted Thierry Escaich, Gabriel Jackson, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Patric Standford, Bernard Hughes and the live Radio3 world premiere of Judith Bingham's "Actaeon, his strange new face"(BBC commission). For the Brighton Festival he premiered Sir John Tavener's "Butterfly Dreams", and for the British and American Film Music Festival in honour of composer John Williams, James Shearman's "Manhattan Prelude". Among his most recent CD recordings are Robert Hugill ('DivineArt'), Britten 'St Nicolas' (BBC Concert Orchestra) and "The English Rachmaninov" (Choir of All Saints, Margaret Street - Director of Music since 2004), attracting first-class reviews in "International Record Review" and 'Gramophone' Magazine, and on BBCRadio3's "CD Review".
A Professor at the Royal Academy of Music for the past six years, and a former Henry Wood Scholar, Read and Southall Prizewinner and post-student Fellow at the Academy, he was honoured with its Associateship in 2007 for 'distinction in the music profession'.
Paul Brough was born in London of English and German descent and trained at the Royal College of Music, St Michael's College, Tenbury and Magdalen College, Oxford(Mackinnon Scholar, Boult Memorial Prize), becoming conductor of the Oxford University Chamber Orchestra. He studied with Colin Metters, George Hurst, Sir Colin Davis and Ilya Musin, and is assisting Jeffrey Tate with the Venice 'Ring'.