Fabian Russell
Fabian Russell conducts training and youth orchestras in large-scale symphonic repertoire, notably through The Orchestra Project he founded for young Australian musicians mentored by professionals. He also works in the opera pit.
Before concentrating on the podium he was a principal tuba, including fourteen years with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and earlier posts with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Orchestra Victoria. He has appeared as a tuba soloist, among them in John Williams’s Tuba Concerto, and for Victorian Opera he conducted John Adams’s Nixon in China.
Fabian Russell appears on
The Other Side of Tony Gould
Tony Gould is best known as a jazz pianist and improviser. This recording turns to his classical side: original concert works written over two decades, with Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring in a four-hand piano version.