Local News TV Interview – New Music Director of The Florida Orchestra
Bay News 9, 26th June 2014
Local news team interviews Michael Francis regarding his new appointment as the Music Director for The Florida Orchestra.
Francis named Florida music director
James Chute, U-T San Diego, 25th June 2014
“Michael Francis, who recently made an impressive showing guest conducting the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra at the Balboa Theatre and must be considered one of the top music director candidates, has just been named music director of the Florida Orchestra…”
Florida Orchestra names Michael Francis new music director
Stephanie Hayes, Tampa Bay Times, 24th June 2014
“The global search went on for three years, but in the end it took just two key performances for Florida Orchestra leaders to know they had their conductor.
On Tuesday, they named British musician Michael Francis as the orchestra’s new music director…”
Florida Orchestra names new musical director
Tampa Tribune, 24th June 2014
“After a season of conductors playing musical chairs, so to speak, the Florida Orchestra announced Tuesday that British musician Michael Francis, Chief Conductor of Sweden’s Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, will be the orchestra’s next music director…”
Conductor Michael Francis will give TSO a good workout with Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony
Trish Crawford, Toronto Star, 13th May 2014
“Michael Francis is chomping at the bit to take on Felix Mendelssohn’s famous Symphony No. 3, a piece of music that really gives an orchestra a workout, the British conductor says…”
San Francisco Symphony celebrates New Year’s Eve in style
Gilly Lloyd, San Francisco Examiner, 30th December 2013
“Concert-goers will be delighted to learn that British conductor, Michael Francis, will once more lead the Symphony in a program of delights which includes music by Lèhar, Strauss Jr, Lortzing, Gershwin, Lerner and Lowe, Kurt Weill, and Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein. Guest artists are mezzo- soprano […]
Conductor Michael Francis joins BBC National Orchestra of Wales tour
BBC News, 19th October 2013
“British conductor Michael Francis will be joining the BBC National Orchestra of Wales when it tours mid and north Wales next month.
The orchestra will visit Aberystwyth, Bangor and Llandudno on three consecutive dates in November…”