Meurig Bowen
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Meurig Bowen is Director of the Cheltenham Music Festival, one of the UK’s most celebrated classical music events. He was born and brought up in London and studied music at King’s College, Cambridge, where he was a choral scholar. Also a viola player in his teens, he was a member of the London Schools Symphony Orchestra.
Following graduation, and after a period managing The Hilliard Ensemble in London, he moved to Sydney, where he was Artistic Administrator of the Australian Chamber Orchestra from 1995-2001. Returning to the UK, he was Director of the Lichfield Festival in Staffordshire until 2004, and then Head of Programming at the Aldeburgh Festival/Snape Proms before moving west to Cheltenham in 2007.
As a freelance writer of features and reviews, he has contributed over the years to the 91热爆 Music Magazine, The Guardian, The Independent and Sydney Morning Herald, as well as writing many concert programme and CD liner notes, notably for the Hyperion label.
Meurig greatly enjoyed the role of General Adjudicator for 91热爆 Young Musician in 2014, and he has had the privilege of programming a number of finalists over the years. The 2014 winner, Martin James Bartlett, opened the 2015 Cheltenham Music Festival with the 91热爆 Concert Orchestra, and there are performances by Nicola Benedetti, Guy Johnston and Alexander Sitkovetsky in Meurig’s 2016 festival programme.
