Hugh Brunt studied at New College, Oxford and is Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the London Contemporary Orchestra. Recent engagements include the Spitalfields Festival, Aldeburgh Festival (Britten-Pears Composers Ensemble), performances with Imogen Heap and the Holst Singers at the Southbank Centre and Latitude Festival, and Tom Stoppard/André Previn’s Every Good Boy Deserves Favour at the National Theatre (Southbank Sinfonia). In Europe, he has performed at the Musikverein, Vienna and assisted at the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg (Thomas Adès’s Powder Her Face). Future engagements include Mike Figgis’s Just Tell the Truth at the Royal Opera House (Deloitte Ignite 2011). www.hughbrunt.com