Robert Ziegler
Biography
Robert Ziegler is an award-winning conductor who engages audiences around the world through his stimulating and imaginative performances. A former prizewinner in the Fitelberg Conductors’ Competition, and recipient of awards from the Royal Television Society, the British Phonographic Society, and the New York Radio Awards, he has recently recorded with Sony, Deutsche Grammophon and Universal with the Royal Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra and Slovakian State Philharmonic Orchestras among others. Based in the UK, his recent engagements include a debut with London’s Philharmonia Orchestra, and as a guest conductor with the Gulbenkian Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony, RTE Concert Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra. Collaborations with leading musical figures include Lang Lang’s The Disney Book, Max Richter’s Voices, Pete Townshend’s Classic Quadrophenia, Ludovico Einaudi’s Divenire, Randy Newman’s Live in London, David Gilmour’s - Rattle That Lock, and Stewart Copeland’s Orchestralli. Ziegler’s extensive work in film includes the creation of original soundtracks with composers such as Howard Shore, Alberto Iglesias, Jonny Greenwood, Max Richter, Shigeru Umebayashi, Michael Giacchino, and Alf Clausen for The Simpsons.
Known For & Full Filmography3 Titles
Movie - 2004, 2h 15m • as Conductor
After his impetuous musician girlfriend, Samantha, dies in an accident shortly after they had a fight (and nearly broke up), Ian Wyndham, a grief-stricken British businessman living in London gets a chance to relive the day all over again, in the hope of changing the events that led up to her getting killed.
Movie - 2015, 2h 15m • as Self - Conductor
Pete Townsend's reinvention of The Who's Quadrophenia for the classical music genre (composed by partner Rachel Fuller) filmed live at the Royal Albert Hall and featuring the 90-piece Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the 80 members of the London Oriana Choir, Alfie Boe, Billy Idol and Phil Daniels
Movie - 2009, 2h 15m • as Self - Conductor
Pop's enduring diva is on scintillating form in an intimate concert from LSO St Luke's in London. Accompanied by her band and 21 strings from the BBC Concert Orchestra, Annie Lennox storms through a set packed with hits from her solo career and back to the Eurythmics days, including classic hits Here Comes the Rain, Little Bird, Cold, Sweet Dreams and No More 'I Love You's'. Lennox shows her voice has lost none of its ability to thrill and her showmanship is undimmed.