ROYAL Northern Sinfonia had a lot to celebrate as it launched the first of Sage Gateshead’s New Beginnings series with a live stream concert. Not only was it the orchestra’s first appearance after a long winter of lockdown, but also a chance to introduce their new signing, Designate Principal Conductor Designate Dinis Sousa. And it was a debut in Hall One of Middlesbrough-born operatic superstar Dame Sarah Connolly. Before the evening began in earnest there was a time of reflection for the losses of so many loved ones and latterly the death of the Duke of Edinburgh, who accompanied the Queen when she officially opened Sage Gateshead in 2005.
New Beginnings at Sage Gateshead SAGE Gateshead welcomes music to its stages for the first time in 2021 with a live streamed classical concert. The music centre’s first series of 2021, entitled New Beginnings, starts with one of classical music’s superstars Dame Sarah Connolly joining the Royal Northern Sinfonia and its recently-announced Principal Conductor Designate, Dinis Sousa, at 7.30pm on Friday. Dawn and Dusk is a programme of new beginnings with music that is full of optimism. Opening with the sunrise depicted in the introduction to Haydn’s ‘Le Matin’ (Morning) seems a fitting way to break the silence of the last few months.
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Dinis Sousa has been appointed principal conductor of Royal Northern Sinfonia SAGE Gateshead has marked an important milestone in its recovery from the Covid-19 crisis with the appointment of young conducting star Dinis Sousa as principal conductor of Royal Northern Sinfonia (RNS). At this time when communities in the North-East will need music and the arts more than ever, Sage Gateshead says it wants to meaningfully respond, bringing music’s vital role in improving health and wellbeing, education and learning, and in creating positive shared experience to benefit everyone across the region. This role is symbolised in this new appointment of the talented Portuguese conductor, who will move his base to the region to realise RNS’ contribution to this vision.