Andrew Penny

Conductor Andrew Penny is a major specialist in British music on recordings, having made more than 50 albums, including a complete cycle of the symphonies of Malcolm Arnold. He is the music director of the Hull Symphony Orchestra. Penny was born on December 4, 1952, in Hull (Kingston upon Hull) in Yorkshire, England. He was not especially oriented toward music as a youth but was encouraged by a teacher named William Arter, who had been partially deafened by a blast during World War II. He took up the clarinet, which he studied at the Royal Northern College of Music, and also ...