The festival, which lost all of its staff six months ago, has named Jack Bazalgette as artistic director from 2o25.
Bazalgette is a Hackney-based conductor who has worked as chorusmaster with the Prague Symphony Orchestra and was Senior Conductor of the Cambridge University Symphony Orchestra.
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