Sir Clive Daniel Gillinson, CBE (born 7 March 1946)[1] is a British cellist and arts administrator.
Gillinson began studying the cello at the age of eleven and played in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.
In 1984 he was asked by the Board to become managing director of the LSO, a position he held until 2005 when he left for Carnegie Hall.
In the international touring arena, the LSO established an annual residency in New York from 1997 and was a founding partner in the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan, in 1990, with Leonard Bernstein and Michael Tilson Thomas.
[4] He was appointed a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1999 New Year Honours List and received the 2004 Making Music Sir Charles Grove Prize for his outstanding contribution to British music.