Meurig Bowen

Meurig Bowen (born 5 December 1965) is artistic director of the Cheltenham Music Festival.

Bowen was educated at William Ellis School, London, and King's College, Cambridge, where he was a choral scholar (1985–88). After a period working in Australia as artistic administrator of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, he returned to the UK as director of the Lichfield Festival,^[1] and subsequently head of programming at the Aldeburgh Festival, before taking up his present post at Cheltenham, where he succeeded Martyn Brabbins, in 2007.^[2]

Bowen is also a music journalist and commentator^[3] who regularly writes for the national press,^[4] and he also writes distinctive CD liner notes, notably on the Hyperion label.^[5]

Notes

1. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/stage/2003/05/lichfield_festival.shtml
2. ^ "Meurig Bowen Announces The 2008 Cheltenham Music Festival Programme". www.classicalsource.com Limited. 6 April 2008. http://www.classicalsource.com/db_control/db_news.php?id=913. Retrieved 2009-12-16. 
3. ^ Bowen, Meurig (22 August 2005). "The music that dare not speak its name". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2005/aug/22/classicalmusicandopera. Retrieved 12 May 2010. 
4. ^ http://www.journalisted.com/meurig-bowen
5. ^ http://www.musicalcriticism.com/recordings/cd-poulenc-0308.shtml

External links

• http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/blog/tag/meurig-bowen/

Preceded by Martyn Brabbins

Artistic Director, Cheltenham Music Festival 2007–

Succeeded by Incumbent

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Name	Bowen, Meurig
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