Robert Chasey
Robert Chasey has a wealth of orchestral experience. He has played under many great conductors including Sir Georg Solti, Kurt Sanderling and Guenther Herbig, but it was when he led the orchestra at the Institute of Advanced Musical Studies in Montreux under Rudolf Kempe that he was encouraged by the maestro to take up the baton.
Robert is currently Principal Second Violin in the BBC Philharmonic, and was previously co-leader of the orchestra of the Royal Ballet. He regularly coaches strings at the Royal Northern College of Music and at courses in Shrewsbury and the Benslow Music School. He is Artistic Director of the Bolton Symphony Orchestra and also works with other student and amateur orchestras. His connection to the Rehearsal Orchestra goes back to the seventies when, for many years, he led the orchestra under Harry Legge.
Peter Donohoe
Peter Donohoe was born in Manchester in 1953 and studied at the Royal Northern College of Music and in Paris. Following his unprecedented success in the 1982 International Tchaikovsky Competition he has developed a distinguished international career in Europe, the USA, the Far East and Australasia. He formed his own orchestra in 1987 and has since been a guest conductor with several of the world's great chamber orchestras, including the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Limberg Orchestra in the Netherlands. Hw was Principal Conductor of the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group during its initial seasons in the early 1990's. His connections with the Rehearsal Orchestra reach back many years and he has been a frequent and welcome guest soloist.
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