Paul Mann

Paul Mann is a regular guest-conductor with many major orchestras throughout Europe, the USA, Australia and the Far East. His work as chief conductor of the Odense Symphony Orchestra in Denmark achieved considerable critical success, particularly in the symphonies of Beethoven, Elgar, Mahler, Schumann and Shostakovich; in Odense he also made numerous recordings of a wide range of repertoire for such labels as Bridge, DaCapo and EMI. More recently, he has made more than twenty recordings for the Toccata Classics label, mostly world premiere recordings of rare repertoire and of contemporary composers with such orchestras as the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Liepāja Symphony orchestra.

He first came to international attention as first-prize winner in the 1998 Donatella Flick Conducting Competition, as a result of which he was also appointed assistant conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. He made his LSO debut shortly afterwards and subsequently collaborated regularly with the orchestra, both in the concert hall and recording studio. A wide-ranging musician, he has also collaborated with a number of musicians in other disciplines, including the jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, the rock singer Bruce Dickinson and the legendary rock band Deep Purple, with whose keyboard player the late Jon Lord he enjoyed an especially fruitful association.