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Eyes and teeth: Conductors at the 2016 Proms

Eyes and teeth: Conductors at the 2016 Proms

Feast on our annual parade of bulging eyeballs and windmill arms at the Royal Albert Hall

by Monday, 12 September 2016
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Vladimir Jurowski: one in the eye for the LPO Copyright: BBC/Chris Christodoulou

The concert photographer Chris Christodoulou has been taking pictures at the BBC Proms for 35 years. Even more than the musicians under their baton, he spends his time watching conductors like a hawk, observing their every gesture and grimace. Every year the wackier images, which convey less dignity but more truth, don’t make it into the public eye.

Or they didn’t until we at The Arts Desk entered into collaboration with Christodoulou. This year we publish our seventh gallery of his action portraits. Normally we publish only one snap per conductor. This time round, to help the Proms along with the project of improving gender and ethnic diversity among conductors, there are two images each of Rafael Payere, the Venezuelan graduate of El Sistema, and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, the new music director of the CBSO who made her Proms debut this year.

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Prom 1: Sakari Oramo
Prom 2: Sir Antonio Pappano
Prom 4: Valeri Gergiev
Prom 9: Jérémie Rhorer
Prom 11: Mark Wigglesworth
Prom 14: Enrique Mazzola
Prom 13: Vladimir Jurowski
Prom 15: Sir Andrew Davis
Prom 16: Jac van Steen
Prom 18: Bernard Haitink
Prom 21: Nicholas Collon
Prom 22: Edward Gardner
Prom 20: Sir John Eliot Gardner
Prom 23: John Storgårds
Prom 24: Juanjo Mena
Prom 31: Thomas Dausgaard
Prom 37: Thomas Sondergard
Prom 40: Thomas Adès
Prom 42: Harry Christophers
Prom 43: Daniel Barenboim
Prom 46: Ilan Volkov
Prom 47: Rafael Payare
Prom 47: Rafael Payare
Prom 48: Matthias Pintscher
Prom 53: Vasily Petrenko
Prom 55: Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
Prom 55: Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
Prom 59: Herbert Blomstedt
Prom 60: Philippe Jordan
Prom 63: William Christie
Prom 64: Sir Simon Rattle
Prom 65: Baldur Brönnimann
Prom 68: Sir Mark Elder
Prom 75: Sakari Oramo

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