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 Sandy Burnett Whether it's presenting live lunchtime or evening concerts, writing scripts, working in the studio or interviewing some of the great performers of today, Sandy relishes the sheer variety of life as a Radio 3 presenter. He is one of the team of voices for BBC Orchestras, enjoying an especially close association with the BBC Scottish SO, and every August he presents the famous series of live morning concerts from the Edinburgh Festival. Beyond Radio 3, Sandy is often heard on Ireland's Lyric FM, for whom he hosted the weekly programme Calling the Tune between 1999 and 2002. Growing up in Glasgow, Sandy listened avidly to Radio 3, without ever imagining that he would be a presenter on the network. It would have come as a shock to his late Director of Studies at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he spent three action-packed years as a music student! On graduating, Sandy embarked on the varied career that he's followed ever since. He has worked as musical director for the Royal Shakespeare Company and Royal National Theatre, and has conducted over a hundred performances of Carousel in the West End. Other conducting credits include Amici and the Pegasus Choir at St James's Piccadilly, and BWV Chamber Baroque in two atmospheric late-night concerts in St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh. He is currently masterminding a complete cycle of Bach's surviving sacred cantatas at St Michael and all Angels in Chiswick - a fascinating if lengthy musical journey. As a bass player, Sandy is a familiar figure on the London jazz scene. He has worked with many of the great players in British jazz, and has toured with the American guitar legend Bucky Pizzarelli, as well as US vocalists Salena Jones and Lillian Boutté. Late night jazz will be put on hold periodically from now on though; Sandy will be getting used to the trilling of the early morning alarm clock, as he regularly stands in for Penny Gore as presenter of Radio 3's breakfast show, Morning on 3. |
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