Kerry Arcane School CV

Kerry Woodward is an international orchestra and opera conductor and composer. He has occupied the position of conductor of the BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, the Nederlands Chamber Choir, the Akron Symphony and Ohio Chamber Orchestra (U.S.A). He has conducted all the BBC orchestras, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Royal Ballet, the London Sinfonietta and the chamber orchestras of the Royal Concertgebouw and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestras.

He discovered, edited and conducted the first performance of an opera composed in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, which has now entered the standard opera repertoire and is the subject of an award-winning film, “The Kaiser of Atlantis.”

As a composer, he has written music for orchestra, band, ballet, chorus, chamber ensembles and videos. His music is published by Donemus.

As a teacher, he has been a faculty member at the University of Akron (Ohio, USA), at the Conservatories of Utrecht and Enschede (Netherlands) where he taught orchestra conducting, choral conducting and composition. He was also a guest professor at the conservatories of St.Petersburg (Russia), Riga (Latvia), Lodz and Wroclav (Poland).

He has been an Arcane School student for the past 25 years.