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Leonard Bernstein conducts West Side Story: The Making of the Recording 15*
4pm
5 June 2011
Cinema 1 (Silk St)
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Tickets:
Standard - £9.50 online (£10.50 full price) / Barbican Members - £7.50 online (£8.50 full price) / Concessions £8.50
subject to availability
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Christopher Swann
The winner of the BAFTA Flaherty Award for documentary direction, a Prix Italia, an Emmy [for executive production and direction in the performing arts], a Gramophone Video of the Year award, a Cable Ace award, an Echo award in Germany and the Gold Camera Award from Chicago.
A four time Emmy nominee, a Grammy nominee, an Indy nominee and a BAFTA nominee for live multi camera direction and recipient of a number of awards from the New York Film and Television Festival.
BBC trained both in radio and television and now freelance. He has travelled extensively, directing, producing and series producing throughout Europe, the Middle East, and America. His programmes have been internationally acclaimed and distributed and seen all over the world.
He has worked with people as diverse as Sir Paul McCartney and Luciano Pavarotti, Daniel Libeskind and Miriam Margolyes, Leonard Bernstein and BB King, Zandra Rhodes and Maurice Sendak, Roberto Begnini and Nina Corte, Russell Harty and Bernard McClaverty, Sandi Toksvig and Mel Smith.
Extensively published on VHS and DVD, in particular: 'Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story', 'Ginevra's Story' (made for the National Gallery of Art in Washington), 'The Montreux Dream', 'Standing Stone' and 'A Prokofiev Fantasy' (with Peter and the Wolf). Current work: a major feature length documentary on the work of architect 'Daniel Libeskind - The Making Of An Architect' for BBC2 (transmission in 2007), '7/7 Remembered' a two hour special for ITV1, a pilot on Picasso for 'Drawing a Profile' (Israel) and three half hour 'History Mystery' films also for BBC2.
Recent work includes the series 'Dickens In America' - four one hour programmes for BBC2 filmed in America with Miriam Margolyes retracing the author's American journey of 1842 and a drama filmed in Ireland called 'I Am Ireland', which was transmitted on network PBS in the USA, as well as documentary films for 'Mediterranean Tales' in Athens and Istanbul for BBC4.
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