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In 2005 Loughborough University conferred on him the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters.
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Paul McCreesh
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Career
He is artistic director of the Wratislavia Cantans Festival in Wrocław, Poland and of the Brinkburn Festival in England. With the Gabrieli Consort & Players, McCreesh has performed in major concert halls and festivals across the world. Paul McCreesh specialises in the music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
He also works with modern instrument orchestras including the Defence Science Organisation Berlin, RSO Berlin, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Detroit Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony, Sinfónica de Euskadi, Stockholm Philharmonic and Beethovenhalle Bonn, the Netherlands Philharmonic and the Orchestra Sinfonica dell"Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia di Roma.
McCreesh began his career as a cellist and took his Bachelor of Music from the University of Manchester in 1981. McCreesh"s directing début was at Street John"s, Smith Square in London, and a sensational Proms début led to an early signing with Deutsche Grammophon"s Archiv label.
McCreesh has conducted Handel"s Jephtha for Welsh National and Gluck"s Orfeo ed Euridice, as well as Mozart"s The Magic Flute for Royal Danish and, for Komische Oper Berlin, a new David Alden staging of Handel"s Alcina. He has also conducted Handel"s Rodelinda at the Beaune Festival and at the Brinkburn Festival, which he founded and directs.
