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Roger Norrington

Sir Roger Arthur Carver Norrington CBE (born 16 March 1934) is an English conductor. He is known for historically informed performances of Baroque, Classical and Romantic music.

Roger Norrington

Roger Arthur Carver Norrington

(1934-03-16) 16 March 1934
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England

Classical

Conductor, advisor

1962–2021

In November 2021 Norrington announced his retirement.[1]

Awards and honours[edit]

He was appointed OBE in 1980, CBE in 1990 and Knight Bachelor in 1997. He is a patron of Bampton Classical Opera and the Orchestra of St Paul's. He is an honorary fellow of Clare College Cambridge and holds honorary degrees from the Universities of York and Kent and an honorary doctorate from the Royal College of Music.

The Rossini Bicentennial Birthday Gala

A Norrington discography from the Japanese website "kanzaki.com"

London Philharmonic Choir page

Isobel Leybold-Johnson, "Sir Roger takes up the baton in Zurich". Swiss Info webpage article, 10 September 2010

April 26, 1996

Interview with Sir Roger Norrington