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1958 now Sir Neville Marriner (Founder, Director, and Conductor)
2000 now Murray Perahia KBE (Principal Guest Conductor)
1974-1999 Iona Brown (Artistic Director)
1980 now Kenneth Sillito (Artistic Director)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
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Principal Conductors
1935-1946 Guy Warrack
1946-1960 Ian Whyte
1960-1965 Norman Del Mar
1965-1971 James Loughran
1971-1977 Christopher Seaman
1978-1979 Karl Anton Rickenbacher
1983-1993 Jerzy Maksymiuk
Chief Conductors
1996-2002 Osmo Vänskä
2003 now Ilan Volkov
Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra
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1946-1959 David Ludlow
1959-1986 Kenneth Page
1986-1994 Robin Page
1994 now Michael Lloyd
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
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1893-1934 Sir Dan Godfrey
1934-1939 Richard Austin
1939-1947 Montague Birch
1947-1951 Rudolf Schwarz
1951-1961 Sir Charles Groves
1962-1969 Constantin Silvestri
1969-1972 George Hurst (not actually appointed Principal Conductor)
1972-1979 Paavo Berglund OBE
1974-1976 Sir Simon Rattle (Young Conductor in residence)
1980-1982 Uri Segal
1982-1988 Rudolf Barshai
1988-1994 Andrew Litton
1990-2000 Kees Bakels (Chief Guest Conductor)
1992-1995 Richard Hickox (Principal Guest Conductor)
1995-2000 Yakov Kreizberg
2001 now Marin Alsop
Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra
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1925-1972 Herbert Menges
1975-1987 John Carewe
1989 now Barry Wordsworth
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
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1920-1924 Appleby Matthews
1924-1930 Sir Adrian Boult
1930-1943 Leslie Heward
1943-1951 George Weldon
1951-1957 Rudolf Schwarz
1957-1959 Andrzej Panufnik
1959-1960 Sir Adrian Boult
1960-1968 Hugo Rignold
1969-1978 Louis Frémaux
1978-1980 (Vacant)
1980-1998 Sir Simon Rattle
1998 now Sakari Oramo
Edinburgh Symphony Orchestra
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1963-1967 Donald James
1967-1972 Henry McGlone
1972-1973 Neil Butterworth
1973-1985 Leon Coates
1985-2003 Alasdair Mitchell
2004 now Gerard Doherty
Hallé Orchestra
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Principal Conductors
1858-1895 Sir Charles Halle (Founder)
1895-1899 Sir Frederic Cowen * (Conductor)
1899-1911 Dr Hans Richter
1912-1914 Michael Balling
1915-1920 Sir Thomas Beecham * (Musical Adviser)
1920-1934 Sir Hamilton Harty
1939-1942 Sir Malcolm Sargent * (Conductor-in-Chief )
1943-1970 Sir John Barbirolli
1972-1983 James Loughran
1983-1992 Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
1992-2000 Kent Nagano
2000 now Mark Elder
* not appointed as ‘principal’ conductors, largely through their own choice
Kensington Symphony Orchestra
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1956-1983 Leslie Head
1983 now Russell Keable
London Symphony Orchestra
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1904-1911 Hans Richter
1911-1912 Sir Edward Elgar
1912-1914 Artur Nikisch
1915-1916 Sir Thomas Beecham
1919-1922 Albert Coates
1930-1931 Willem Mengelberg
1932-1935 Sir Hamilton Harty
1950-1954 Josef Krips
1961-1964 Pierre Monteux
1965-1968 István Kertész
1968-1979 André Previn
1979-1988 Claudio Abbado
1988-1995 Michael Tilson Thomas
1995 now Sir Colin Davis
National Symphony Orchestra of London
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c.1981-2004 Martin Yates (Principal Conductor)
2004 now Martin Yates (Conductor Laureate)
2004 now Anthony Inglis (Principal Conductor)
Northampton Symphony Orchestra
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1893-1922 William Bonner
1922-1951 R Richardson-Jones
1952-1959 Oswald Lawrence
1959-1959 Robert Joyce
1959-1964 John Bertalot
1964-1985 Graham Mayo
1985-1990 Clive Fairbairn
1990-1996 Christopher Fifield
1996-2000 Leon Gee
2000 now Graham Tear
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
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1946-1961 Sir Thomas Beecham
1961-1962 Rudolf Kempe
1963-1975 Rudolf Kempe (Artistic Director )
1975-1978 Antal Dorati
1978-1988 Conductor Laureate
1980-1985 Walter Weller
1985-1992 André Previn
1987-1994 Vladimir Ashkenazy (Music Director)
1967-1992 Sir Charles Groves (Associate Conductor)
1981-1999 Lord Yehudi Menuhin (Associate Conductor)
1992 now Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (Associate Conductor)
1993 now Vernon Handley (Associate Conductor)
1996 now Daniele Gatti (Music Director)
York Symphony Orchestra
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1898-1913 T. Tertius Noble
1913-1915 Dr Edward C. Bairstow and Editha Knocker
1919-1920 Edith Robinson
1920-1921 Frederick Hattersley
1921-1926 Harold A. Bennett
1926-1927 John Cowper
1932-1937 Frederick Kell
1937-1939 Owen Le Patourel Franklin
1946-1947 Frederick Waine
1947-1980 Dr Francis Jackson
1980-1986 Martin Hotton
1986-1988 John Godfrey
1989-1993 Paul Mann
1994-1995 Eno Koço
1995-2002 Leslie Bresnen
2002 now David Blake
