Paul Brough's current conducting includes the Ulster Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Singers with whom he now broadcasts frequently.
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
His Web Video, digital TV transmission and live Radio3 broadcast of Britten 'St Nicolas' with the BBC Concert Orchestra, which was relayed on seven international networks, was issued on CD with the December 2009 edition of BBC Music Magazine. His ongoing broadcasts for BBC 'Performance on 3' and 'Afternoon on 3' include Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Bruckner, Elgar, Holst, Delius and Villa-Lobos.
"The Manchester Camerata under Paul Brough have the sort of stylistic adaptability to play Stravinsky..or Haydn's Creation with equal authenticity" wrote the Yorkshire Post after his recent performance of that oratorio. He goes on to conduct the Ulster Orchestra later this year for the re-opening of the Ulster Hall organ and to make a BBC programme for composer Patric Standford.
He recently conducted the world premiere of Judith Bingham's "Actaeon, his strange new face" (a BBC commission broadcast live on BBC Radio3), adding to a list of first performances which include Sir John Tavener's "Butterfly Dreams"(Brighton Festival), and James Shearman's "Manhattan Prelude"(British and American Film Music Festival in honour of composer John Williams). He conducted the Einojuhani Rautavaara 80th birthday programme for the BBC. A CD for 'DivineArt' of orchestral and choral music by Robert Hugill has been praised by an array of critics, and his recordings with the professional choir at All Saints, Margaret Street - where he has been Director of Music since 2004 - including "The English Rachmaninov", have won 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 five years, teaching conducting and academic studies, his other recent educational work includes a RAM Conducting Masterclass and a Royal Northern College of Music Composers' Workshop, both with the BBC SIngers. A former holder of a post-student Fellowship at the Academy, he was honoured with its Associateship in 2007 for 'distinction in the music profession'.
Born in London of English and German descent, Paul Brough organised and conducted his first symphonic concerts as a schoolboy and first entered the Royal College of Music as a pianist and singer. He then won scholarships to St Michael's College, Tenbury and Magdalen College, Oxford, becoming conductor of the Oxford University Chamber Orchestra and winning the Boult Memorial Prize. With the generous help of the Leverhulme Trust he was able to graduate from the distinguished conducting class of Colin Metters and George Hurst and take a series of masterclasses with both Sir Colin Davis and the late Ilya Musin. He is studying 'The Ring' with Jeffrey Tate as part of the ongoing cycle at La Fenice, Venice.