Joe Davies

Recently praised for his 'musical brilliance' (Seen and Heard International), Joe Davies is a conductor working around the UK. He is Assistant Conductor of the English Symphony Orchestra and Musical Director of the UK Proms in the Park Orchestra, with recent engagements including the Royal Northern Sinfonia, Orchestra of the Swan, Sinfonia Smith Square, and National Schools' Symphony Orchestra. He is Musical Director of Windsor & Maidenhead Symphony Orchestra, Canterbury Symphony Orchestra, Oxford Millennium Orchestra, Leamington Sinfonia, Solway Sinfonia, Cumbria Youth Orchestra, and Coventry & Warwickshire Youth Orchestra, and is Artistic Director of the Cumbria Opera Group. Previous MD positions include Worcester Philharmonic Orchestra, Midland Concert Orchestra, and Contemporary Music East Midlands (CoMA), while other engagements include the Oxford University Orchestra, Nottingham Symphony Orchestra, and the City of Southampton Orchestra.

Joe's opera credits include The Turn of the Screw, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, Acis and Galatea, Trouble in Tahiti, Dido and Aeneas, and Venus and Adonis with the Cumbria Opera Group, alongside Candide at the Oxford Playhouse and Mansfield Park with Cardiff Opera. Joe was Artistic Director of the Cumbria Opera Festivals 2021, 2023, and 2025, involving artists such as Roderick Williams OBE and Joan Rodgers CBE. Joe has conducted premieres of works by Howard Skempton, Alex Ho, and Martin Bussey, while concerto collaborations include Jess Gillam, Laura van der Heijden, Emma Johnson, Xhosa Cole, Kirill Troussov, Benedict Kloeckner, Clare Hammond, and Harry Baker. Joe graduated with a First Class Degree in Music from St Peter’s College, Oxford, and studied Orchestral Conducting at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, graduating with Distinction, where he studied under Michael Seal. Other training includes the Serena Fenwick Programme with British Youth Opera. See www.joedaviesconductor.com