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Sun 05 Jun 2005

Our Festival artists have picked up a tranche of awards in the last couple of months. Many of the awards went to The Death of Klinghoffer team. John Adams picked up a Classical Brit award for his album On The Transmigration of Soul & Road Movies. Edward Gardner, who has already proved his mettle conducting the Hallé and Glyndebourne Touring Opera, won the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for Young Artists.

Anthony Neilson, director of The Death of Klinghoffer, has meanwhile picked up five of the ten awards at the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland (CATS) for The Wonderful World of Dissocia, including Best Director and Best New Play. Miriam Buether, designer on Dissocia and now The Death of Klinghoffer walked away with the Best Designer award and Christine Entwisle won Best Actor (Female). The evening culminated in lifting the most prized of the awards, Best Production.

Christopher Wheeldon has also picked up Best Choreography (Classical) at the National Dance Awards for Rush, an EIF commission which received its world premiere here at the Festival in 2003 performed by San Francisco Ballet. This year you have the chance to see the European premiere of Wheeldon’s Swan Lake.