British conductor. Highlights of the past few months have included Danish National, Hamburg Symphony, and Nagoya Philharmonic. In 2023/24 he also conducted the BBC Scottish Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, London Mozart Players, and took on Wagner’s Ring (in the De Vlieger orchestral arrangement) with the Brighton Philharmonic. He continues his close collaboration with Norwegian jazz saxophonist Marius Neset, with whom he has performed many times including at the BBC Proms and Bergen Festival and for Musikkollegium Winterthur; they pair up again next season for the Northern Lights Festival with the Arctic Philharmonic. He conducts several projects a year with the London Sinfonietta, and led the Nash Ensemble in their Birtwistle Memorial Concert at the Wigmore Hall in March, when he also conducted Orpha Phelan’s new production of Albert Herring with the pick of the Royal Academy of Music rising star vocalists. 

Opera has always formed a large part of Paterson’s activity; recent productions have included Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream in Frankfurt, Philip Glass’s Orphée at English National Opera, and Willem Jeth’s Ritratto at the Dutch National Opera. He has conducted at the Bavarian State Opera (Menotti’s The Consul, Max Richter and Kaija Saariaho ballets), Royal Danish Opera (Die Fledermaus, Porgy and Bess, and Prokofiev’s Cinderella), Opera North (La Bohème), Glyndebourne on Tour (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) and Music Theatre Wales (Dusapin’s Passion at the Southbank Centre, Eötvös’s The Golden Dragon on tour).