Live Brahms Four at Greyfriars Sat 20 June

British conductor Adam Hickox (born in 1996) has been described by the Boston Musical Intelligencer as a “consummate, well-mannered musician of skill”. He brings to the podium an impressive and elegant fluidity of technique and mature interpretations of a wide range of repertoire which is fast building him a reputation both on the concert stage and in the opera house. In December 2023, following his successful debut at Glyndebourne Autumn Opera conducting Donizetti L’Elisir d’amore, he was appointed Principal Conductor of The Glyndebourne Sinfonia which will see him returning to Glyndebourne to conduct opera productions and concert performances as part of the autumn seasons 2024 and 2025.

The 23/24 season includes many debuts for Hickox – these include the Philharmonia Orchestra at London’s South Bank Centre, the Deutsche Symphony Orchestra Berlin at the Berlin Philharmonie, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Norwegian Opera, BBC Philharmonic, Iceland Symphony, St Gallen Symphony orchestras amongst others and returns to the Royal Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic and BBC Symphony orchestras, all of whom he is now conducting regularly.

In recent seasons, Hickox has conducted the Orchestre de Paris, BBC Scottish Symphony, BBC Symphony in the studio and at the Barbican Centre in a concert celebrating the works of the legendary author Ian McEwan, the Ulster Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, Gävle Symphony and the National Symphony Orchestra (Ireland). In the opera house, he has conducted Tosca at Opera North, a new production of Hansel and Gretel at the Royal Scottish Conservatoire and in the coming seasons will make his debut at Hamburg State Opera.

Hickox studied music and composition with Robin Holloway at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, and conducting with Sian Edwards at the Royal Academy of Music. He was Assistant Conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic from 2019-2022 working closely with Lahav Shani, and in 2021 he was invited to Tanglewood as one of the Festival’s two Conducting Fellows, where he worked alongside Nelsons, Blomstedt and Gilbert with the TMC Orchestra, as well as giving performances of his own at the Koussevitzky Music Shed. Hickox also took part in the fellowship’s corresponding residency with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig.

Amadea Dazeley-Gaist is French and British, originally from a small town in Brittany, France. Amadea studied at the Royal College of Music (RCM) in London, graduating with a Master of Music in Performance with Distinction in 2024.

While at the RCM she was awarded the prestigious Michael Quinn Award and was generously supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust. Notable achievements during her time at the RCM include the ABRSM Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Award, and the Horn Prize in the RCM Solo Brass Competition in both 2022 and 2023.

Amadea has played with numerous prestigious orchestras in the UK, including the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra to name a few. As a soloist, Amadea has performed some of the most renowned horn concerti, including Mozart’s Horn Concerto No4 with the New English Consort Orchestra, Strauss’ Horn Concerto No2 with the City of London Sinfonia, and most recently, Strauss’ Horn Concerto No1 with the London Mozart Players.