Robin O’Neill is Principal Conductor and a member of the artistic committee of the Orchestra Citta Aperta, L’Aquila, Italy, and Music Director of the music theatre company The Motion Group. He has conducted the Philharmonia Orchestra (at the Rimini Festival and in London and Bristol), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra (at London’s South Bank Centre, Windsor Castle and several summer festivals), Swedish Chamber Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Sundsvall Chamber Orchestra and the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa Japan (in performances of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the 350-strong Japan Choral Union). He has broadcast on the BBC, Swedish Radio and Japan Broadcasting Corporation.
With Andrew Steggall and The Motion Group he has collaborated with Jeremy Irons and Hugh Dancey in a production of The Soldier’s Tale at the Old Vic Theatre which won immense critical acclaim. Robin O’Neill and the Orchestra Citta Aperta have made a recording of The Dream of Urizen as part of an ongoing survey of the music of the Italian composer Carlo Crivelli.
