Faculty of Music alumna Chloe Rooke (St Catherine's College, 2015) recently conducted the BBC Concert Orchestra at Saffron Hall with soloists Emma Johnson and Sarah Redgwick in a concert of Viennese New Year music.
Chloe Rooke is Assistant Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra for the season 2022/23. She won the Contemporary Award at the first International Conducting Competition in Rotterdam in May 2022 and the Audience Prize at the Donatella Flick-LSO Conducting Competition in 2021. She also attracted attention as the youngest competitor of the 2021 Malko Competition: “Many will leave Copenhagen with memories of Chloe Rooke, the young British conductor who lit the competition up with her sense of music’s joy and communicative potential” – Andrew Mellor, Gramophone.
To listen to the recording of the concert, please visit the BBC website.