The Sussex Symphony Orchestra announces new conductor

The Sussex Symphony Orchestra has announced that Christopher Braime will succeed Mark Andrew James as Conductor of The Sussex Symphony Orchestra from the start of the 2019 season.

Christopher Braime was born in 1983 and commenced conducting studies whilst a Foundation Scholar at the Royal College of Music, London, studying with Neil Thomson, and Richard Dickins. He was recently featured in All Together Now: The Great Orchestra Challenge on BBC 4 and BBC 2.

He is also Musical Director of the London Gay Symphony Orchestra, the Putney Choral Society, and the Southampton Youth Orchestra.

Christopher has also appeared as conductor with several orchestras throughout the South of England including: the Farnborough Symphony Orchestra, the Redhill Sinfonia, the Suffolk Sinfonia, and the Kensington Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2013, he made his European conducting debut with the Orquestra do Algarve, Portugal, and has recently conducted in Germany. In the 2019/20 season he will be returning to the Suffolk Sinfonia where he maintains a very happy guest conducting relationship with the orchestra. In July 2018 he will also be making his conducting debut at Birmingham’s Symphony Hall.