Chauhan joins Birmingham Opera as Music Director

Birmingham Opera Company has announced that conductor ALPESH CHAUHAN (pictured) is joining the organisation as Music Director, to work alongside Artistic Director GRAHAM VICK. Chauhan’s career has taken him from Principal Cello with the CBSO Youth Orchestra to regular appearances as a guest with acclaimed British orchestras and internationally. He made his UK opera debut in 2019 with Birmingham Opera Company, the CBSO and director Graham Vick for Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, which won a Royal Philharmonic Society Award.