Featuring our guest conductor Richard Davis

Richard Davis is presently Chief Conductor and Head of Orchestral Studies at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. He regularly conducts orchestras, such as Queensland Symphony and BBC Philharmonic, in concerts, recordings, national radio broadcasts and on television. Richard Davis has also directed operas and requiem masses with the BBC Singers and has just been invited to make his debut with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. He is known for his wide-ranging repertoire, allowing him to conduct projects across many genres – from television soundtracks and Family Concerts to recording avant-garde world premieres and performing the symphonies of Shostakovich and Mahler. Click on Richard Davis's photo to see the full biography.

Music Programme

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

• Overture to Le nozze di Figaro

Danny Elfman

• Theme from Batman

Edvard Greig

• Suite No. 1 from Peer Gynt

1. Morning
2. Ase’s Death
3. In the Hall of the Mountain King

Samuel Barber

• Adagio for Strings

John Williams

• E.T. Adventures on Earth, Flying Theme
• Superman March

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

• Suite from Swan Lake, Op. 20a

1. Danse Hongroise
2. Danse Neapolitaine
3. Scene
4. Danse des Cygnes
5. Valse

John Williams

• Star Wars Suite for the Orchestra

1. Princess Leia’s Theme
2. The Imperial March (Darth Vader’s Theme)