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…”
Mainly Mozart is on a roll
James Chute, U-T San Diego, 14th June 2014
“…Francis knew every nuance of this difficult score and he and the orchestra offered a compelling, convincing interpretation. He found exactly the right tone for both the satire, even sarcasm, inherent in the score, and the work’s seriousness of purpose as he and the orchestra sounded as […]
RPO ends season with strong program
Daniel J. Kushner, Democrat & Chronicle, 1st June 2014
“Guest conductor Michael Francis’ blend of control and effusiveness sustained the magisterial momentum of the prologue…
Under Francis’ direction, “Venus, The Bringer of Peace” was strikingly lyrical. The string section added elegiac beauty to its honeyed melodies, implying that the peace that was won had come at […]
RPO presents Holst’s “The Planets”
David Raymond, Rochester City Newspaper, 30th May 2014
“But the most memorable portions of [Walton’s ‘Suite from Henry V’]…were delicately paced by Michael Francis and exquisitely played by the RPO strings, but the full orchestra also gave Walton’s festive moments the snazziness they require — the “Agincourt Song” pealing out in the brass near the […]
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…”
RTÉ National Symphony & Irish Chamber Orchestras
Pat O’Kelly, Irish Independent, 7th April 2014
“Following several weeks’ lull, the latest in the RTÉ NSO’s ‘Subscription Season’ finds the ensemble in top form under re-visiting English conductor Michael Francis.
Increasingly well respected on both sides of the Atlantic, his programme spotlights Dvořák’s 7th Symphony. The Brahms-like majesty of its opening Allegro is lightened by […]
Michael Francis Conducts the Helsinki Philharmonic in an All-British Program
Derek Ho, ResMusica, 20th March 2014
“…From the opening timpani strikes it was immediately clear that this music is Francis’ passion. There were many highlights, from the clumsy woodwinds in the Britten to the hushed strings and ominous trumpets in the Vaughan Williams. This concert was a model of intelligent programming, although some might find […]
