Duncan Ward

Duncan Ward is among Britain's most versatile conductors of his generation, with talents ranging from the Baroque to contemporary music, from orchestral works to opera. He is the conductor of the philharmonie zuidnederland (the "South Netherlands Philharmonic"). Ward was born in 1989 in Britain's Kent County and grew up in Longfield. He attended Dartford Grammar School in nearby Dartford. Although his family was not musical, he took a strong interest in music and wrote a full-length musical based on Alice in Wonderland during a summer vacation when he was 12. The school's hea...