Alice Farnham was shortlisted for the Royal Philharmonic Society Conductor Award 2024 and is on the BBC Woman’s Hour Music Power List. She returns to Longborough after L’elisir d’amore last year.
Guest conducting includes the Welsh National Opera, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, BBC Concert Orchestra, Royal National Symphony Orchestra of Scotland, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Opéra de Rouen Normandie, Malmö Opera, Mariinsky Theatre, Calgary Opera, Folkoperan Stockholm, Wermlands Opera, Folkoperan Stockholm, Royal Academy of Music, and Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Royal Ballet Covent Garden, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Danish Royal Ballet, English National Ballet, and Ballet Preljocaj.
She conducted an album of Imogen Holst’s unknown works with the BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Singers which is released under the NMC label in September 2024. Alice was Music Director for a feature film of La bohème which will be released by Finite Films later this year.
Since 2014 Alice has been Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Women Conductors with the Royal Philharmonic Society and Women on the Podium in Australia. Her book In Good Hands – The Making of a Modern Conductor was published by Faber & Faber in January 2023 and came out in paperback in April 2024.
Alice was Organ Scholar at St. Hugh’s Oxford University and Organ Fellow at St. Thomas’ Church Fifth Avenue, New York. She trained at the St. Petersburg Conservatoire with the legendary pedagogue Ilya Musin.