Murray Hipkin
Assistant Conductor
Murray Hipkin joined the ENO Music Staff (1983–8) and then worked for Opera Factory and Opera Brava (as Musical Director) and as a freelance accompanist and teacher, rejoining ENO in 1995.
Previously for ENO: Chess, Senior Répétiteur (including the complete Ring); as Assistant Conductor, most recently on Dr Atomic, The Passenger, The Death of Klinghoffer, Dr Dee, Julius Caesar, Medea, The Sunken Garden, Die Fledermaus, Così fan tutte, The Gospel According to the Other Mary, The Indian Queen, Sweeney Todd (also chorus master), Akhnaten, Sunset Boulevard (also chorus master), The Pearl Fishers, Carousel and Satyagraha; as Associate Conductor on The Duchess of Malfi (ENO/Punchdrunk), and has conducted The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, The Gondoliers, Kismet and Carousel.
Career Highlights
Notable conducting engagements elsewhere: La bohème (Surrey Opera, Opera Box); UK première of Salieri’s Falstaff, Haydn’s La vera costanza, Mozart’s Apollo and Hyacinth, Gluck’s Le Cinesi (Bampton Classical Opera); Sweeney Todd (Shawford Mill); The Sound of Music (London Palladium, as Musical Director); War Requiem (North London Chorus/Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra); Musical Director of the North London Chorus since 2003 and the Pink Singers since 2011; currently leading the ENO Community Choir. He worked on the world/UK premieres of The Death of Klinghoffer (Brussels/Edinburgh) and assisted John Adams and conducted on location for the award-winning Channel 4 film of the opera. In 2012 he assisted Adams on Nixon in China (BBC Proms/Berlin Philharmonie).
Opera translations: La vera costanza; Le Cinesi.
Last updated: 28th December 2022