About Music Link International

Music Link International was founded in 1994 by the American conductor/composer Peter Ash and the British writer/director Donald Sturrock to bring together artists from different cultures and disciplines to create ground-breaking live events of imagination and excellence. Its founder patron was the composer, Michael Tippett.

Since its opening concert, an 'al fresco' summer serenade at Prussia Cove, Cornwall, Music Link has presented a wide range of events often in unusual and unexpected locations - disused theatres, country houses and gardens, as well as major theatre and concert venues. Its staged and semi-staged productions have included Handel's Acis and Galatea, Nicolai's The Merry Wives of Windsor, Purcell's The Fairy Queen, and the world premiere of Julian Grant's Serenade the Silkie.

In St. Petersburg, Russia, Music Link has promoted a series of concerts at the Hermitage Theatre in the Winter Palace, including Handel's Messiah, Bach's Christmas Oratorio and concerts of music by Britten and Tippett.

Music Link is committed both to new music and new artists, and also to education and audience building. It manages the music commissions for young people of the Roald Dahl Foundation, and has presented the premieres of Peter Ash's arrangement of music by Jean Sibelius for The Minpins, and Georgs Pelecis' version of Dahl's Jack and the Beanstalk. The Minpins was premiered in St. Petersburg in the Great Hall of the Philharmonie, while Jack and the Beanstalk, with Danny DeVito, Joanna Lumley and Simon Callow, was presented before an audience of 6,000 people in the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Music Link has recently recorded another of these commissions, Eleanor Alberga's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, with its own orchestra, The Taliesin Orchestra. It features Danny DeVito, Joanna Lumley, and Griff Rhys Jones.

In 1998, Music Link co-produced the premiere of Tobias Picker's opera Fantastic Mr. Fox in Los Angeles. It has also made television films for the BBC. Plans for the future involve a project to revive eighteenth century Russian operas in St. Petersburg, a new children's opera for Los Angeles, and a film version of Gluck's ballet Don Juan, shot on location in Guatemala.