Andrew Penny
English conductor
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Andrew Jonathan Penny MBE (born 4 December 1952, Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England)[1] is an English conductor. He has recorded a complete cycle of Malcolm Arnold's symphonies.[2] He has conducted a series of recordings of Arthur Sullivan's ballets and incidental music released on the Marco Polo label. Some have been reissued on the Naxos label. They include The Merchant of Venice,[3] The Merry Wives of Windsor,[4] Henry VIII[5] and Macbeth.[6] From 1982 to 2022, he was Musical Director of the Hull Philharmonic Orchestra.[7] In November 1999 he directed two performances of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 (The Symphony of a Thousand), as part of the Millennium celebrations in Hull.
He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to music.[8]
