Our Conductor
&
Orchestra Leader
Our Musical Director and Leader
Our conductor is highly qualified and a motivated professional, who is an expert in his field. With many years of experience, he has the expertise to provide comprehensive and first-rate direction to our orchestra.
Marco Giudici
PRINCIPAL CONDUCTOR
Born in Italy, Marco, a professional Clarinettist, performed with OSN RAI (Italian National Symphony Orchestra). As a freelance musician, Marco has performed with a number of orchestras including, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, Welsh Chamber Orchestra and the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.
Since 1998 Marco has taught clarinet and saxophone in a variety of independent schools and is deputy clarinet tutor at the Junior Royal Northern College of Music.
His conducting career began in 2018, having studied at the London Conducting Academy and with renowned International conductor Eduardo Portal.
Alongside his teaching, Marco conducts the Salford Symphony Orchestra and the Ambleside and District Choral Society.
Preston Symphony Orchestra welcomes Marco as our Principal Conductor and with his friendly personality and vast musical experience we look forward to his musical direction as he works with the orchestra.
Peter Blackburn
ORCHESTRA LEADER
I have been playing the violin in orchestras for nearly 40 years and have enjoyed learning, through playing with other musicians, as well as getting to know the standard orchestral works.
My family moved to Preston when I was six. I attended Greenlands Primary School where the headmaster selected me for violin lessons through the visiting violin teacher. I can remember as a teenager, playing 2nd violin with the original Preston Concert Orchestra which stopped in the early 1960's.
I studied at Lancaster University under Paul Robertson of the Medici String Quartet. After graduating, I settled in Lancaster teaching Violin and Piano in the Lancaster and Preston areas.
It was great news to me when I heard Preston Symphony Orchestra was starting in January 2024 so I could once again enjoy my orchestral playing.
I am delighted to be given the opportunity to lead Preston Symphony Orchestra and hope with Marco, to lead the orchestra on to greater things in 2026 as the orchestra continues to develop and progress.