Adrian Butterfield is a UK-based period-instrument violinist, director and conductor who appears regularly at Wigmore Hall and across the world. He is musical director of the Tilford Bach Festival, associate director of the London Handel Festival and frequently conducts and directs the London Handel Orchestra and Players as well as working as a guest director in Europe and North America. London Handel Players made their debut at Carnegie Hall in 2014 and return to North America regularly.
He leads the gut-string quartet, the Revolutionary Drawing Room, and is professor of Baroque violin at the Royal College of Music in London. He also works annually with the Southbank Sinfonia, gives masterclasses internationally and has taught on summer courses in several countries.
He has conducted all the major choral works of Bach as well as numerous works by Handel and his contemporaries and directed ensembles such as the Croatian Baroque Ensemble in Zagreb, the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Mozart Players.
For more information, visit www.adrianbutterfield.com.