Conductor

A conductor is a person who directs the performance of a composer's score. In this pursuit, they will be most concerned with determining when individual instruments play their parts of the music. Often, but not always, the conductor will also be the orchestrator in cases of orchestral performances.

Marcus Dods was the only conductor so credited on the 1963 version of Doctor Who, for his work on The Aztecs. Nonetheless, some others received the specific credit of "Incidental music composed and conducted by": Norman Kay on The Sensorites, Francis Chagrin on The Dalek Invasion of Earth ^[+]Loading...["The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)"], Raymond Jones on The Romans, Dudley Simpson on The Crusade ^[+]Loading...["The Crusade (TV story)"] and The Chase ^[+]Loading...["The Chase (TV story)"], and Carey Blyton on Doctor Who and the Silurians.

In BBC Wales Doctor Who, conductors were at first only credited on special occasion, as with The End of Time. During the Moffat and Chibnall eras, however, the conductor began to be credited on a more regular basis. As of September 2024, the only individuals credited as conductors for the BBC Wales and BBC Studios programme were David Temple, Ben Foster, Jeremy Holland-Smith, Alastair King and Alec Roberts. Most were commonly credited for "Music conducted and orchestrated by [them]", although for a brief period at the end of the Chibnall era, Roberts was the orchestrator and King was the conductor.

Ben Foster was also the conductor for Doctor Who: A Celebration, the series' first live music event. He also conducted the orchestra for Doctor Who at the Proms, together with Stephen Bell for 2008, alongside Grant Llewellyn for 2010, and on his own in 2013 and the various Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular events.

Geoff Alexander conducted and orchestrated for the 2013 docu-drama An Adventure in Space and Time.

External links

• Conductor job description at study.com
• Conductor defined at careersinmusic.com