Here you will find my biography, details of my arrangements, repertoire, future performances etc. All enquiries will be answered, and I am happy to sell/hire scores and parts of most arrangements listed here, and if I can’t, I can normally advise you about how to obtain the work concerned.
RECENT WORK:
L’ELISIR D’AMORE (Donizetti) reduced orchestration for English Touring Opera
“The playing was stylish and full fat, we never felt we were listening to something reduced”
(Robert Hugill, http://planethugill.com )
COPPELIA (Delibes) reduced orchestration for El Paso Ballet Theatre, Texas
DON QUIXOTE (Minkus) reduced orchestration for the Ballet of the Greek National Opera
SYMPHONY No. 3 (Bruckner) new performing version for the Bruckner bicentenary in 2024
…”an interesting amalgamation of the versions hinged basically on the first version with some adjustments incorporating (or using cuts from) the later versions…congratulations on a very fine performing edition!!” (John Berky abruckner.com)
LA SYLPHIDE (Løvenskiold) reduced orchestration for the Ballet of the Opéra National de Bordeaux
SWAN LAKE (Tchaikovsky) reduced orchestration for the Ballet of the Deutsche Oper, Berlin
GISELLE (Adam) reduced orchestration for the Royal Swedish Ballet
SLEEPING BEAUTY (Tchaikovsky) reduced orchestration for the Royal Ballet, Covent Garden, London
“John Longstaff – a conductor who should be on the international stage…There was a time when I thought I would never hear the [Moeran] Symphony live. This was finally put right when I attended a concert by that overlooked orchestral magician John Longstaff with the Sheffield Symphony Orchestra in the mid-2000s.
Why are conductors of his calibre still overlooked despite the passing of Hickox and Handley? Longstaff does not need a dearth of other talent to stand out in the crowd.”
Rob Barnett http://www.musicweb-international.com, http://www.pristineclassical.com/More/News090925.html
John Longstaff 