Artists’ Profiles

Douglas Boyd

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Conductor

Douglas Boyd is currently the Artistic Director of Garsington Opera, and has held the positions of Music Director of L’Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Chief Conductor of the Musikkollegium Winterthur, Music Director of Manchester Camerata, Principal Guest Conductor of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Artistic Partner of St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Principal Guest Conductor of City of London Sinfonia. In 2020 he received the highly prestigious Grand Vermeil Médaille de la Ville de Paris. He works with major orchestras worldwide including the BBC Symphony, Philharmonia, CBSO, Bournemouth Symphony, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Bergen Philharmonic, Gävle Symphony, Orchestre National de Lyon, Tonhalle Zürich, Budapest Festival, Mozarteum Salzburg, Slovenian Philharmonic, and Gürzenich.

Operatic engagements have included Die Zauberflöte /Glyndebourne on Tour, La grotta di Tronfonio / Zürich Opera, La clemenza di Tito / Opera North, The Rape of Lucretia / Winteroper Potsdam, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Fidelio, Così fan Tutte, Eugene Onegin, Capriccio, Silver Birch and Dalia (both Roxanna Panufnik, world premieres) and Rusalka / Garsington Opera which also went to the Edinburgh Festival in 2022.

Douglas Boyd’s extensive discography includes the complete Beethoven Symphonies with the Manchester Camerata, Schubert Symphonies with the St Paul Chamber Orchestra as well as several recordings with Musikkollegium Winterthur. Recordings with L’Orchestre de Chambre de Paris include ‘Intuition’ with Gautier Capucon for the Erato label, and a disc of Haydn Symphonies.

Madeline Adkins

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Violin

Madeline Adkins joined the Utah Symphony as Concertmaster in 2016. She served as Associate Concertmaster of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra from 2005–2016.

She performs on the “ex-Chardon” Guadagnini of 1782, graciously loaned by Gabrielle Israelievitch to perpetuate the legacy of her late husband, former Toronto Symphony concertmaster, Jacques Israelievitch.

Adkins is a Concertmaster of the Grand Teton Music Festival and has served as Guest Concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony, the Houston Symphony, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic. She has performed as a soloist in Europe, Asia, Africa, and 25 US states. Festival appearances include the Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival in South Africa and the Sarasota Music Festival, and as a clinician, at the National Orchestral Institute, the National Youth Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, and the Haitian Orchestra Institute. Her recording of the complete works for violin and piano by Felix Mendelssohn with pianist Luis Magalhães was released to critical acclaim in 2016.

The daughter of noted musicologists, Adkins is the youngest of eight children, six of whom are professional musicians. She received her Bachelor’s summa cum laude from the University of North Texas and her Master’s degree from New England Conservatory, where she studied with James Buswell. When not on stage, Madeline is passionate about animal rescue, and has fostered over 100 kittens.