Background
Francis, Alun was born on September 29, 1943 in Kidderminster, England. Son of Emlyn and Eluned (Peters) Francis.
composer orchestral and operatic conductor
Francis, Alun was born on September 29, 1943 in Kidderminster, England. Son of Emlyn and Eluned (Peters) Francis.
Association Royal Manchester College Music, 1963. Music director.Ulster (United Kingdom) Orchestra, 1966-1976, Tehran (Iran) Opera, 1976-1977. Conductor over 50 orchestras world wide.
Former regular conductor Royal Philharmonic and Philharmonia Hungerica.
Former music director Northwest Chamber Orchestra, Seattle. principal conductor Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Nordwestdentsche Philharmonie, Herford, Germany. Permanent guest conductor Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano(Italy).
Composer orchestral, vocal, chamber music, film scores.
Francis was the principal conductor of the Ulster Orchestra from 1966 for ten years. In 1978 he conducted the premiere of Donizetti"s opera Gabriella di Vergy in the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. From 1979 to 1985 he was Music director of the Northwest Chamber Orchestra in Seattle, then he was artistic counselor of the ensembles Opera Forum in Enschede.
From 1987 to 1990 he was Generalmusikdirektor of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie.
Afterwards he conducted the Haydn-Orchester in Bolzano, the Berliner Symphoniker and the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi. From 2003 to 2008 he was principal conductor of the Thüringen Philharmonie Gotha.
He has been a regular guest conductor of the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra. As of 2010, he is principal conductor of the Orquesta Filarmónica de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City.
Member of Composers Guild Great British.
Married Pamela Hope Fong, November 19, 1982.