Cellist, conductor, teacher, and musicologist. Research Fellow at Huddersfield and Leeds Universities. Conductor of Hans Gal choral works in Leeds.

Gender	Male
Nationality	United Kingdom
Website	http://music.leeds.ac.uk/people/george-kennaway/

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George Kennaway is a cellist, conductor, teacher, and musicologist. Born in Edinburgh, he studied at the universities of Newcastle and Oxford, the Guildhall School of Music, and the University of Leeds. He is currently Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Huddersfield’s Centre for Performance Research, and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Leeds. From 2008-12 he was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Leeds, investigating 19th-century annotated editions of string music. Before that, he was principal cello no. 2 in the Orchestra of Opera North for 28 years. He regularly appears as a soloist and chamber music player, on modern, 19th-century, and baroque cello. He has performed unaccompanied 17th– and 18th-century solo cello works in Huddersfield, and in 2015 he made his third appearance as soloist with the Leeds Baroque Orchestra. With David Milsom and Jonathan Gooing, he is a member of the Meiningen Ensemble, a chamber group which explores applications of historical research to the 19th-century repertoire. He has conducted orchestras in the UK, Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Italy, and Lithuania, and currently conducts the Harrogate Philharmonic Orchestra and the Sheffield Chamber Orchestra. His book Playing The Cello 1780-1930 (Ashgate) appeared in 2014. Other publications include articles and book chapters on editions of Haydn cello concertos, opera orchestra contracts, theoretical aspects of historical performance and historiography, and the music of the Baltic states. He is the leading UK specialist in the music and art of the Lithuanian M. K. Čiurlionis. He has taught at the Royal Northern College of Music and the Lithuanian National Academy of Music.