Swiss Guitarist Christoph Denoth is described by the press as being “a master of his instrument, he performed with great technical skill, spinning out well-shaped melodic lines with crystal clear, often thrilling, accompaniments. He drew from his instrument so many different colors that one often thought there was more than one guitarist on stage.” (New York Concert Review) He is also a successful recording artist. His critically-acclaimed 2016 album Nocturnos De Andalucía featured guitar concertos by Rodrigo (Concíerto de Aranjuez) and Lorenzo Palomo (Nocturnos de Andalucía), and was recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra and conductor Jesus Lopez Cobos at Abbey Road Studios (Signum Records). He has also recorded An den Mond with lieder by Schubert, Mozart, and Haydn with Martina Janková (soprano), including nine world premiere recordings for soprano and guitar (Philips/Universal). His solo albums, Mister Dowland’s Midnight (2014) and Homages – a musical dedication (2014), were both released by Signum Records in London. Recent concert highlights include his solo recital at Wigmore Hall (London), which was broadcast by the BBC, Rodrigo’s Concíerto de Aranjuez in New York, his debut at the BBC Proms in London, and concerts at Radio Nacional in Buenos Aires, in Toronto, Zurich, and London. With the English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Gary Walker, he recently performed Maurice Ohana’s concerto trois graphiques in London. In the summer of 2017, he appeared at the El Jem Festival in Tunisia, where he performed in one of the world’s largest amphitheatres, attracting 3,000 listeners. In the autumn of 2018, he will tour Australia with the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra.
Christoph is a regular soloist with chamber orchestras and ensembles such as the Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain, the Offenburger Streichtrio, and the Sacconi Quartet. He played solo recitals in Carnegie Hall (Weill Hall) in New York, the Berlin Philharmonie, Wigmore Hall, and Kings Place London as well as the Mozarteum in Salzburg. He has played at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and also is a regular soloist of the Orquesta de Cordoba (Spain), the Alba Orchestra (UK), and the English Chamber Orchestra.
Christoph Denoth studied classical guitar at the music academies of Basel, Lucerne, and Zurich and attended master classes with Pepe Romero and others. Denoth trained as a concert guitarist with Oscar Gighlia in Basel. He was given several international awards, including the 2008 UBS Culture Award for Music.
Christoph Denoth endeavours to expand the tonal and dynamic range of today's concert guitar and bring it to the attention of a wider audience. He has studied both the Phenomenology of Music and Conducting with Sergiu Celibidache, who exercised an enormous influence on him. He has since conducted a number of orchestras.
In 2013, he performed the world premiere of Hans Martin Linde’s 5 Traces after Benjamin Britten in Buenos Aires. The world premiere of the concert for guitar and orchestra by Lorenzo Palomo, El Jardín de Baco (The Garden of Bacchus) with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (USA) and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y Leon in Valladolid (Spain) is planned for 2019. In the autumn of 2018, he will also perform the world premiere of a solo work by Stephen Goss at Kings Place London.
Christoph Denoth has also greatly contributed to the available repertoire for voice and guitar. In autumn 2011, he performed together with Dame Felicity Lott at the Oxford Lieder Festival. In 2012, he performed Schubert's songs with Ruby Hughes (soprano) during the BBC Spirit of Schubert Week, including a premiere of Schubert’s piece for guitar and male trio. Together with Ruby Hughes and James Gilchrist (tenor), he played a Benjamin Britten programme at the 2013 BBC Proms, including Songs from the Chinese and Folksong Arrangements. Born in Basel, he is now at home both in the Swiss mountains as well as in his adopted home of London. Since 2010, he has been teaching at the Royal Academy of Music in London (performance classes for solo guitar and lied interpretation for singers and guitarists). From 2006 to 09, he was the first Swiss Musician-in-Residence at Balliol College (Oxford University UK). He is regularly invited to teach master classes and lectures at universities and music academies all over the world, e.g. at the Lucerne Academy of Music as well as at the Universities of Oxford, Glasgow, and Sheffield (lecture on science and music with Denis Noble, author of Music of Life) or at the Universities of Tulane in New Orleans, Western Carolina, and St. Bonaventure.
Denoth concentrates to enrich the guitar’s repertoire with new works, as well as expanding the tonal and dynamic range of the concert guitar. His repertoire focuses on music ranging from the Renaissance to the present day. He follows a long tradition in the European history of guitar music, and is at pains to show how today’s concert guitar can open new musical vistas to a larger concert audience.

Formed in 1904 by a group of 46 musicians who had resigned from London's Queen's Hall Orchestra because of change in policy, the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is an ensemble of "firsts." It was the first orchestra in England to set up a self-governing administrative structure, the first to tour North America, and the first to accept commercial sponsorship. Known as one of England's most gifted and versatile ensembles, it is the resident orchestra at London's famous Barbican Centre. This and the fact that the LSO tours extensively; has provided music for countless films, radio broadcasts, and television productions; and records prolifically has helped to consolidate the group's reputation as one of the world's leading orchestras.

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, London musicians worked on a strictly freelance basis, finding work where they could for the highest possible fee. In 1904, Henry Wood, conductor of the Queen's Hall Orchestra, decided that he could no longer tolerate the chaos of the situation and hired players as full-time employees with a small but guaranteed wage for about 100 scheduled performances a year. Many of the best musicians, who were in great demand and who stood to lose a significant portion of their earnings through this restriction, resigned from Wood's ensemble and formed their own, self-governing orchestra.

Soon after its creation, the LSO invited Hans Richter to be its first conductor. He accepted the position on the condition that the orchestra increase its number to at least 100 players. Although Richter conducted a great many of the orchestra's concerts during his eight-year tenure, the group also attracted numerous other distinguished conductors to the podium. These included Nikisch, Steinbach, and Elgar. In so doing, the LSO promoted the idea of guest conductors in English musical society.

Two years after its foundation, the orchestra played its first concerts outside England; two concerts in Paris. Under the direction of Nikisch in 1912, the LSO became the first British orchestra to tour North America, presenting 28 concerts in 21 days, beginning and ending with performances in New York's Carnegie Hall.

Over the next 50 years, the LSO was lead by a number of gifted and distinguished conductors including Sir Thomas Beecham, Albert Coates , Sir Hamilton Harty, Josef Krips, Pierre Monteux, Istvan Kertesz, André Previn, and Claudio Abbado. All of these men, in addition to the many guest conductors and artists invited to work with the LSO, left their marks on the orchestra; shaping and honing the virtuosity of its players into an ensemble of great sensitivity and versatility.

The orchestra's association with the film industry began in 1922 when Walter Wanger, head of United Artists, hired the LSO to play for the presentation of silent films at Covent Garden's Opera House. Since then, the ensemble has provided music for numerous films including the Star Wars series for which the LSO won a platinum disc.

The LSO's connection with the BBC goes back to 1924 when Ralph Vaughan Williams conducted the orchestra in the premiere broadcast performance of his Pastoral Symphony. The LSO was the unofficial orchestra in residence for the BBC until the formation of the BBC Symphony in 1930 and has continued to broadcast concerts and provide background music for many BBC productions.

When Michael Tilson Thomas replaced Abbado in 1987, he set about securing the organization's financial as well as musical future by encouraging the LSO to accept corporate sponsorship. Conducted by Sir Colin Davis from 1995 to 2006, who was succeeded by Valery Gergiev in 2007, the London Symphony Orchestra has long enjoyed its well-deserved reputation as a pioneer in several areas of British orchestral history and is a highly versatile and distinguished world-class ensemble.