Category Archives: Nicholas McGegan
Nicholas McGegan on Performing Brahms
In February 2010, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra performed Brahms’ Serenade No. 1, in its first historically-informed performance of the music of...
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Video: Nicholas McGegan discusses Bach’s Mass in B Minor
Music Director Nicholas McGegan discusses Bach’s Mass in B Minor, which will be performed December 2 – 6 by Philharmonia...
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Congratulations, Nic! Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
On Friday, October 29, in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace, HRH Charles, Prince of Wales, formally made Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra’s...
Baroque Masters: Rameau and Bach
Did you miss this past weekend’s Radio Broadcast Series on 102.1 FM KDFC with host Nicholas McGegan? Don’t worry, you can...
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Pictures from Intrada
See pictures from our 30th Anniversary Opening Night Celebration, Intrada! On September 24 before the first concert of our 2010/11...
Philharmonia Baroque featured in SFCV today
Learn about where we’ve been and where we’re going in Jesse Hamlin’s article “The Joyful Long Life of Philharmonia Baroque”...
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Behind the Scenes: Robert Levin plays Mozart
Hope you’re looking forward to our concerts TONIGHT (!), this weekend and next week as much as we are! Our...
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Don’t forget: Premiere of new radio show this weekend
Hosted by Nic, the first show of our Radio Broadcast Series on 102.1 FM KDFC and kdfc.com airs at 8:00 p.m....
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Nic on September’s “Robert Levin plays Mozart” Concerts
Here it is, the first of this season’s “Nic Notes,” where our Music Director discusses the upcoming concert in his...
In 66 days…
… we’ll get to see our Nic conduct Mozart here in the Bay Area. For now, we’ll just have to...
Japanese Handel?
Is of course courtesy of our Music Director! Who else did you expect! Read more.
Fun — and fart jokes — in classical music
That was the sub-headline of the great feature in The Aspen Times this weekend on our Music Director. That’s right,...
Nic in Oregon this weekend!
Nic flew up to Eugene, Oregon, this morning just in time for rehearsal for tomorrows’s 40th Anniversary Gala Concert at...
More Nic News
Last week, Juilliard’s Historical Performance program announced that Nic will conduct Juilliard415 on Saturday, November 20 at 8 PM in...
Congratulations Nic!
What does Graham William Nash, co-founder of Crosby, Stills and Nash, and our Music Director Nicholas McGegan have in common?...
Closing out 20 years: Nic and the Göttingen International Handel Festival
Today, our Music Director Nic (right) conducted the final performance of the Göttingen International Handel Festival – the dark opera...
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Meet Goldilocks
Today, in the San Francisco Chronicle’s “Props” column, Joshua Kosman profiled the harpsichord with a stage presence that can only...
Forever mad: The Legacy of Orlando Furioso
38,736 lines of poetry collected into 46 cantos make up one of Western culture’s most influential works of literature –...
Into the crazy world of Orlando: From our Handel expert (and Music Director) Nic McGegan
Nicholas McGegan joins us again to let us know what’s so special about George Frideric Handel’s opera Orlando, which the...
“Beethoven Songs & Haydn Trios” – Program Notes for June 3