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Paul ArmitageFamily Concert 2010 ~ Massanet: Meditation, Monte: Czarda Paul is 12-years old, lives in Ipswich, and attends Northgate High School. He being violin lessons at the age of 5 and, from the age of 7, has also been learning jazz and classical piano. Paul competes regularly in the Suffolk Festival of Music and Dance and is the current String Champion. As well as being a member of the Suffolk Youth Orchestra, Paul leads his school string quartet, and has been the Soloist with the Scarborough Spa Pavilion Orchestra. He played violin in the modernoperation, Tarantula In Petrol Blue, at Snape Maltings, which involved learning mandolin and performing with professional musicians. Since 2008 Paul has been a member of Aldeburgh Young Musicians. Paul has recently taken up the oboe, and playing in the percussion section of the Wolsey Orchestra.
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Alexander GatehouseFamily Concert 2010 ~ Prokofiev and Woolfe: Narrator Alexander was born in Amsterdam and is a recent graduate from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) where some of his roles included Lord Fancourt Babberly (Charlie’s Aunt); Roy Cohn (Angels in America); and Brazen (The Recruiting Officer). His other theatre credits include Hanging Around with the well renowned theatre company KneeHigh (National Theatre), and Present Tence with the theatre company Nabokov (Trafalgar Studios). Alexander has also appeared in the West End playing Miles in Eligies (Fortune theatre) and in the world premiere of a new play by Don Delillo Valperiso (Old Red Lion).
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Jennifer PikeAutumn Concert 2009 ~ Sibelius: Violin Concerto Jennifer Pike is the youngest-ever winner of the prestigious BBC Young Musician of the Year competition. Jennifer began learning the violin at the age of five, having shown exceptional talent from a very early age. She was awarded the coveted prize at the age of only twelve, after her inspired performance of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in 2002. Aged just eighteen, she is widely regarded as one of the finest violinists in Britain. Jennifer has performed throughout the country and abroad, including acclaimed recitals in London's Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room, and a as a concerto soloist with many major orchestras.
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Sophie Cashell Summer Concert 2009 ~ Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No 2
Sophie Cashell, from Balbriggan in Ireland, started playing the violin when she was just four years old but turned her attentions to the piano when she was ten or eleven. Sophie was thrust into the spotlight in late 2007 when she was named the winner of BBC Two's Classical Star competition. Sophie's performance of Shostakovich's second piano concerto swayed the judging in her favour, and with the victory came the opportunity to release an album with Universal Classics and Jazz. Sophie's ultimate ambition is to have a performance career with solo and chamber music.
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Michael Collins Autumn Concert 2008 ~ Weber: Clarinet Concerto No 1
Michael Collins' virtuosity and sensitive musicianship have made him one of today's most sought after soloists. At 16 he won the woodwind prize in the first BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition, and at 22 made his US début at Carnegie Hall, New York. Since then he has performed as a soloist with many of the world's major orchestras, with conductors such as Rattle, Dutoit, Sinopoli, Salonen, Slatkin, Marriner, Pinnock and Otaka. Michael is also in demand as a chamber musician, regularly performing with the Belcea Quartet, Martha Argerich, Stephen Hough, Mikhail Pletnev, Lars Vogt, Joshua Bell, Steven Isserlis and Isabelle van Keulen. In 1988 he founded London Winds who have since appeared regularly throughout the UK and at many international festivals. London Winds premièred Robin Holloway's Octet at the 2001 Cheltenham Festival.
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Julian Lloyd Webber Summer Concert 2008 ~ Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme Summer Concert 2005 ~ Elgar: Cello Concerto No 1
Widely regarded as one of the most creative musicians of his generation, Julian Lloyd Webber has collaborated with an extraordinary array of musicians from Yehudi Menuhin, Lorin Maazel, Neville Marriner and Georg Solti to Stephane Grappelli, Elton John and Cleo Laine. Julian has given more than fifty works their premiere recordings and has inspired new compositions for cello from composers as diverse as Malcolm Arnold and Joaquin Rodrigo to James MacMillan and Philip Glass. Recent concert performances have included three further works composed for Julian - Michael Nyman's Double Concerto for Cello and Saxophone on BBC Television, Gavin Bryars' Concerto in Suntory Hall, Tokyo and Philip Glass's Concerto at the Beijing International Festival. Julian's recording of the Glass concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic conducted by Gerard Schwarz was released on the Orange Mountain label in September 2004. |
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Sam Wilson
Family Concert 2008 ~ Darious Milhaud: Concerto for Percussion & Small Orchestra
Sam Wilson’s interest in percussion began at the age of three when he discovered that hitting his Parents’ pots and pans was more fun than putting them on his head. Luckily for his family, he did not take this interest any further until the age of ten, when he was asked to join his school orchestra to play woodblock. The joy of making music with others and the realisation that he could now hit anything he wanted to inspired a love for percussion. Now sixteen-years old and a pupil at Ipswich School, Sam studies percussion with Joby Burgess at Junior Trinity College of Music in London, where he also learns piano and composition. Sam has performed at the Royal Opera House; the Cambridge Corn Exchange; the Royal College of Music; and – on numerous occasions - at Snape Maltings. Overseas engagements include concerts in Germany, Italy, Spain, France and Switzerland. He is a member of both the Junior Trinity and Suffolk Youth Orchestras, and also enjoys playing drums in jazz and rock bands.
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Matthew Trusler
Autumn Concert 2007 ~ Bruch: Violin Concerto
Born in 1976, Matthew Trusler graduated from Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music in 1998, soon after which The Times exclaimed “we might just have an authentic, though British, virtuoso”. Matthew has performed with most of the UK’s major orchestras. In 1999 he gave a highly successful tour with Australian orchestras. In the same year he made his US début, playing several concerts with the Minnesota Orchestra and being subsequently invited to perform with the orchestra during its European tour. Matthew Trusler is also an accomplished recitalist. He made his Wigmore Hall début in 1998, giving a further appearance there in the following year, as part of the BBC’s New Generations series, and in 2003 with pianist Noriko Ogawa. An avid chamber musician, Matthew has teamed up with Wayne Marshall – as well as performing the core classical repertoire the duo have recorded a CD on Trusler’s own label, of short pieces by composers directly influenced by jazz. |
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Xuefei Yang Summer Concert 2007 ~ Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuéz
Born in Beijing, Xuefei Yang began playing the guitar at the age of 7, taking formal tuition at 10 from Chen Zhi. Quickly gaining recognition, her school years were filled with concerts in China, Hong Kong, Macau, Spain and Australia, including tours of Taiwan, Japan and Portugal. The composer Rodrigo attended her debut concert in Madrid, when she was 14. Since 2000, she has been in England. Having studied with Michael Lewin, John Mills and Timothy Walker at the Royal Academy of Music, Xuefei Yang graduated with distinction receiving a Recital Diploma. Concerts in England include her superb debut solo recital at The Wigmore Hall. |
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Llŷr Williams Autumn Concert 2006 ~ Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 - Pathétique
Born in 1976 in Pentrebychan, North Wales, Llŷr Williams took a first class alpha degree in music at Queen’s College, Oxford followed by a postgraduate scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music where he won every prize and award. His extraordinary performance at Young Concert Artists Trust auditions in 2002 led to his recital debut at the Edinburgh Festival that same year and he has returned each year since. In 2004 Llŷr received a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award and in 2005 the MIDEM Classique ‘Outstanding Young Artist Award in partnership with the International Artist Managers’ Association’. www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northeast/guides/halloffame/showbiz/llyr_williams.shtml |
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Noriko Ogawa Summer Concert 2010 ~ Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue Summer Concert 2006 ~ Greig: Piano Concerto in A Minor Autumn Concert 2001 ~ Ravel Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
When Noriko Ogawa was awarded third prize in the 1987 Leeds International Piano Competition, the scholarships she had won and support she has inspired over the years were amply rewarded. Since then, she has achieved considerable renown in Europe, America and, of course, in her native Japan where she is a national celebrity. In 1999 Noriko Ogawa was awarded the Japanese Ministry of Education's Art Prize in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the cultural profile of Japan throughout the world. Noriko Ogawa has gained a devoted following in the UK, such that she now spends over half the year in Europe. |
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Alina Ibragimova Autumn Concert 2005 ~ Brahms: Violin Concerto
Born in Russia in 1985 Alina Ibragimova was described by the Salzburger Nachrichten as ‘an amazing talent’ following her performance of Mozart Violin Concerto No 2 with the Kremerata Baltica at the Salzburg Mozarteum, directed from the violin. Alina's engagements have included the RSO Saarbrücken, Norrköping Symphony, Royal Flanders Philharmonic, Trondheim Symphony, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, and a solo recital at the Musée du Louvre in Paris. She is a regular guest at chamber music festivals including Lockenhaus Kammermusikfest, Festival de Paques de Deauville, and Spannungen: Musik im Kraftwerk Heimbach. Her repertoire additionally includes concertos by Mendelssohn, Brahms, Bruch, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Shostakovich and Britten. |
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Ian Fountain Autumn Concert 2004 ~ Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1, Op 23
In 1989 Ian Fountain became the youngest winner of the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Masters Competition in Tel Aviv at the age of 19. He began playing the piano at the age of five and he was a chorister at New College, Oxford. He continued his studies at Winchester College and at the Royal Northern College of Music, working with Robert Bottone and Sulamita Aronovsky. Since that time Ian Fountain has performed extensively throughout Europe, the USA, the Middle East and the UK. As a recitalist Ian Fountain has appeared in major centres such as New York, Paris, Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Tel Aviv, Chicago and London. As a chamber music player Ian Fountain enjoys many longstanding collaborations with musicians such as Ulf Hoelscher, David Geringas and the Mandelring and Emperor Quartets. Since 2001 Ian Fountain has been a piano professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London. |
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Julie Roberts Summer Concert 2004 ~ Strauss: Mein Herr Marquis, Verdi: Caro nome ehe il mio cor, and Donizetti: O luce di quest' anima
Julie Roberts began her singing career in Ipswich and was, for many years, principal soloist with the Ipswich Gilbert and Sullivan Society. As well as continuing to perform a varied oratorio repertoire, a period at Morley College, London, has lead to a more recent focus of opera repertory. Julie has studied with Annette Thompson at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and taken master classes with Jonathan Hinden, Robin Bowman and Anthony Legge. Most recently, she has completed a performance course with English National Opera's Bayliss programme (The Knack). Julie is currently studying with Mary King (Artistic Director of the Knack). |
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Isobel Reaville Summer Concert 2004 ~ Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending
Isobel Reaville began playing the violin at the age of 10, playing in local orchestras and leading the Suffolk County Youth Orchestra. She has also been Leader of the Trianon Music Group in Ipswich and the Britten-Pears Orchestra at Snape Maltings. Having studied Modern Languages at Kent University, Isobel undertook Postgraduate studies at Trinity College of Music in London, gaining a Diploma in Performance, before pursuing a career as an orchestral voilinst. Isobel now combines a teaching career with orchestral playing, and performs regularly with her string quartet, The Sole Bay Strings. |
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Grace Francis Summer Concert 2003 ~ Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Grace Francis attended the Yehudi Menuhin School before studying with Irina Zaritskaya at the Royal College of Music, where she won the Chappell Gold Medal, the highest accolade for any pianist. Since then her career has taken her across Britain, playing to critical acclaim in the Purcell Room, the Wigmore Hall, St Martin-in-the- Fields, and the Barbican, as well as making broadcasts for BBC, Radio 3. Recent engagements included a performance of Brahms 2nd Piano Concerto, and Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Currently Grace is recording a recital of works by Chopin, Novak and John Field for Radio 3. |
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Kerenza Peacock Summer Concert 2003 ~ Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
A former student of Ipswich High School, Kerenza graduated in 2002 from the Royal Academy of Music. She studied with Howard Davis and was awarded the D M Lloyd Prize and the Marjorie (Bunty) Llempfert Prize for Violin Playing. She led the Symphony Orchestra and Concert Orchestras at the Academy, as well as the Britten-Pears Orchestra. Kerenza's string quartet, the Pavão Quartet, has toured in Oman, Portugal and France and represented the Academy at an International Chamber Music Festival in Latvia. Kerenza works with many professional ensembles, including the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, The Philharmonia, and the London Soloists Chamber Orchestra. She played in the Queen’s Jubilee Pop Concert at Buckingham Palace on 3 June 2002 and enjoyed working with artists such as Sir Elton John, Sir Paul McCartney, Dame Shirly Bassie, Rod Stewart, Bryan Adams, and Annie Lennox. Kerenza performed on the 'Maurin' Stradivarius violin on generous loan from the Royal Academy of Music, with a Sartory bow kindly loaned to her by Frederick Phelps Limited. |
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John Lill Autumn Concert 2002 ~ Beethoven Emperor Concerto No 5
John Lill's rare talent emerged at an early age - he gave his first piano recital at the age of nine. At eighteen he performed Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto and made his much-acclaimed London debut playing Beethoven's Emperor Piano Concerto at the Royal Festival Hall. His success was reflected in major prizes and awards, and in 1970 he won the most coveted of these, the Moscow International Tchaikovsky Competition at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. International demand has taken John Lill to over forty countries, both as a recitalist and as a soloist with the majority of the world's leading orchestras. John Lill has an extensive repertoire and is recognized in particular as a leading interpreter of Beethoven. He is a regular visitor to the BBC Proms, and frequently works with the City of Birmingham Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National and the major London orchestras. John Lill lives in London and was awarded the OBE for his services to music in 1978. |
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Lawrence Power Summer Concert 2002 ~ Walton Viola Concerto
Lawrence Power studied at the Julliard School of Music in New York under Mark Knight and Karen Tuttle. His prizes include: First Prize, William Primrose International Viola Competition; Third Prize, Maurice Vieux International Viola Competition; Winner, Trever Snoad Viola Award/Bernard Shore Viola Competition; and Silver Medal, Shell/LSO Scholarship Competition. Lawrence's past performances include recitals and concertos in London, New York, Toronto and Paris. He has appeared as soloist with many major orchestras including the London Symphony and Philharmonia. Lawrence has also given recitals at venues such as the Wigmore Hall and South Bank Centre. He isviolist with the Nash Ensemble, and has joined the BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists Scheme. |
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Ashley Wass Summer Concert 2001 ~ Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3
Born in Lincolnshire, Ashley Wass began to play the piano at the age of five. He studied at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester and in 1995 was awarded a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music. Ashley is the first British pianist to achieve the distinction of First Prize in the coveted World Piano Competition in London. In 1995 he became the first pianist to win First Prize in the Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition for thirteen years and shortly thereafter made his debut at Wigmore Hall. Further competition successes include 5th Prize in the 2000 Leeds International Piano Competition. |
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Beth Spendlove Autumn Concert 2000 ~ Bruch Violin Concerto No 1 Beth Spendlove received her early music training at the Yehudi Menuhin School, the Purcell School and the Colchester Insitute, and she won a number of prizes at the Royal Academy of Music. Beth leads the Colchester and Pavilion Orchestras and has led the East of England Orchestra. Her solo career has taken her to the Royal Festival, the Royal Albert and Wigmore Halls; and she has played most of the major violin concertos both regionally and nationally. Beth is a visiting Professor of Violin at the Colchester Institute, and she directs the Colchester Chamber Ensemble and the Kingfisher String Quartet which she founded, as well as having a duo partnership with pianist Nigel Clayton. |
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Raphael Wallfisch Summer Concert 2000 ~ Dvorak Cello Concerto
Raphael Wallfisch was born into a family of professional musicians; his mother being a cellist and his father a pianist. Even so, he was eight before he discovered that the cello was his instrument. However, from the age of 14, it became apparent that the cello was to be his life's work. At the age of 24, Raphael won the Gaspar Cassado International Cello Competition in Florence. Since then he has continually played world-wide. He regularly appears in the United States and Canada, as well as in Australia and all the principal countries of Europe. He is a professor at the Winterthur Konservatorium, Switzerland and also teaches at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. |
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Naomi Harvey Autumn Concert 1999 ~ Strauss: Four Last Songs Naomi Harvey was born and educated in Cornwall, and began her professional singing career in 1990. Naomi has worked with ENO, WNO, English Touring Opera, Wexford Festival, Castleward Opera and Crystal Clear Opera among others. Her roles include Tosca, Violetta, Mimi, Musetta, Alice Ford, Liu, Micaela, Olympia/Guilietta/Antonia, Marguerite, Rosalinda, Marenka, Countess, Fiordiligi, Donna Anna, Pamina, Ilia, Norina, Adele (Conte Ory), Ismene (Mitradate) and La Musica (Orfeo); also principal soprano in The Merry Widow, My Fair Lady, Bitter Sweet, Kismet, Desert Song, Showboat, and nearly all of the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. |
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Anthony Goldstone Summer Concert 1999 ~ Gershwin: Rhapsody In Blue
Anthony Goldstone is recognised as one of Britain's most respected pianists. Born in Liverpool, Anthony studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music (which later honoured him with a Fellowship) as well as in London. He was won international prizes in Munich and Vienna, and a Gulbenkian Fellowship launched him on a busy schedule of recitals and concertos, of which he play eighty. Complementary to the mainstream repertoire is Anthony's avid interest in exploring intriguing musical byways, in regard to not only unknown works by acknowledged masters, but also to unjustly neglected nineteenth-century composers. |
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Piers Lane Autumn Concert 1998 ~ Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2 London-born pianist Piers Lane has performed in over 40 countries, and his wide-ranging repertoire of some 60 concertos has led to engagements with many great orchestras. Piers is also a well-known broadcaster for BBC Radio 3. He grew up in Brisbane and holds dual Anglo-Australian nationality. Early successes included broadcasts for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from the age of 12; a Special Prize in the Liszt-Bartok Competition, Budapest at 18; the prize for the Best Australian Pianist in the first Sydney International Piano Competition at 19; and a Churchill Fellowship Special Performance Award when he was 20, which financed two years’ study in the USA and at the Royal College of Music in London. Piers Lane was made an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music, where he has been a professor for twelve years, in 1994. |
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Peter Fisher Summer Concert 1998 ~ Bruch: Scottish Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra Peter Fisher began learning the violin at the age of 12. Within two years he was awarded an exhibition in order to attend the Royal College of Music Junior Department. At 16, Peter became a full-time student at the RCM. Peter was a finalist in the Sascha Lasserson Violin Competition and has appeared at several Royal Gala performances in Windsor. |
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Paul Boyes Family Concert 1998 ~ Weber: Andante & Hungarion Rondo, Godfrey: Lucy Long Paul Boyes was appointed as principal bassoon with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in 1992, aged 21. Born in Dunstable, Paul began the bassoon at the age of nine and, soon after, joined the National Youth Orchestra, before winning a scholarship to study at the Guildhall School of Music where he won numerous awards. Paul is a professor of bassoon and chamber music at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. |
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Yonty Solomon Autumn Concert 1997 ~ Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4 Since his highly accliamed London debut at the Wigmore Hall in 1963, Yonty Solomon has enjoyed a distinguished worldwide career in recitals, concertos and chamber music. His extensive repertoire includes the complete Bach 48 Preludes and Fugues, all 32 Beethoven Sonatas, the entire piano music of Ravel, Debussy and Janacek, as well as a broad spectrum of romantic and contemporary music. Richard Rodney Bennett and Sorabji have dedicated works to him. Yonty has won several piano competitions, including the Harriet Cohen Beethoven Medal. In 1996 Yonty was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Music, where he is Professor of Piano. |
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Rafal Zambrzycki-Payne Summer Concert 1997 ~ Mozart Violin Concerto No 5 Born in Poland, Rafal Zambrzycki-Payne started to play the violin at the age of 7 at the Wienawski Music School, Lodz, before becoming a pupil at the Yehudi Menuhin School then the Royal Northern College of Music. In 1991 and 1992 Rafal was a finalist in the Audi Junior Musician Competition. In 1995 he won the Prize for Young String Player of Promise in the Royal Overseas League Competition, then Second Prize in the Luxembourg International Violin Competition. 1996 saw Rafal with the BBC Young Musician of Year Award. |
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Charles Matthews Autumn Concert 1996 ~ Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No 2 Charles Matthews studied at the Royal College of Music, and as an organ scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge. Since 1989 Charles has pursued a career as a performer and teacher of the piano, organ and harpsichord. He maintains a large and wide-ranging repertoire of solo and chamber music. Charles' own Melody for Organ has been published by Bardic Edition, and he has also written pieces for use on BBC2 and BBC Radio 4. His Orchestra's Guide to the Young Person even made it onto Pick of the Week! |
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Robert Cohen Summer Concert 1996 ~ Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variations, Bruch: Kol Nidrei
Robert Cohen is firmly established as one of the world's leading cellists, with an international career which has taken him on several major tours of the USA, Europe, Scandinavia, Australia and New Zealand, performing with conductors such as Abbado, Dorati, Jansons, Marriner, Masu, Muti, Rattle and Sinopoli. Born in London, Robert began playing the cello at the age of 5, and for five consecutive years from the age of 8 he won the Suggia Prize for potential soloists under 21; making his London debut at the Royal Festival Hall at the age of 12. Robert appears regularly with all the major British orchestras. |
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Emma Johnson Autumn Concert 1995 ~ Weber: Clarinet Concerto No 2
Emma Johnson is one of the very few woodwind players to have made an international career as a soloist. Born in London, Emma began to study the clarinet at the age of 9. In 1984 she won the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition, followed by the Bronze Award at the European Young Musician competition. Subsequently Emma read Music and English Literature at Cambridge University. In 1991 she was a winner of the Young Concert Artists auditions in New York. Emma has been appointed Professor of Clarinet at the Royal College of Music. |
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Peter Frankl Summer Concert 1995 ~ Schumann: Piano Concerto No 1
Peter Frankl began his career in the late fifties, when he won first prize in several international competitions. He made his London debut in 1962 and his New York debut with the Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell in 1967. Since that time he has performed with the world's finest orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, Concertgebouw, Israel Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony, Leipzig Gewandhaus, all the London orchestras, and the major American orchestras. He has collaborated with such eminent conductors as Abbado, Boulez, Colin Davis,Maazel, Mazur, Muti, Salonen, Rozhdestvensky, Sauderling, and Solti. |
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Tasmin Little Autumn Concert 1994 ~ Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major
Tasmin Little is now one of the world's leading violinists. She studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she won the Gold Medal in 1986, and in Canada with Lorand Fenyves. Tasmin has played with many of the greatest orchestras and conductors and has given recitals throughout the world. She has given eleven performances at the Proms in the Royal Albert Hall, most notably at the Last Night in 1995 which was televised worldwide. In 2000 she gave performances of the Ligeti concerto with Sir Simon Rattle in London and Vienna and teamed up with Rattle once again for the Brahms concerto at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. Among her world premieres of contemporary works are concertos by Dominic Muldowney, Robert Saxton, Paul Barker and David Earl. |
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Maxim Philippov Summer Concert 1994 ~ Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5 (The Emporer)
Maxim Philippov was born in Moscow in 1972 and, in 1984, was the winner of the All-Russian Competition for Young Pianisits. After completing Central Music School he entered the Moscow State Conservatoire in 1990 and, in the same year, received an award at the National Power Competition in London. He gained First Prize in 1991 at the Oporto International Competition (Portugal), was awarded Second Prize at the Arthur Rubinstein Piano Master Competition (Tel Aviv) in 1992, and in 1993 he received three major prizes: at the Moscow International Piano Competition, the Harveys Leeds Pianoforte Competition, and the Rachmaninov Prize, awarded by the composer's grandson. |
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Raymond Simmons Autumn Concert 1993 ~ Hummel: Trumpet Concerto
Ray Simmons studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he became Professor of Trumpet. He has been the principal trumpeter of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra since 1977, having held positions previously in Birmingham, Bournemouth and the Royal Opera House. Ray's debut with the RPO was in 1983 with Sir Yehudi Menhuin conducting a performance of Haydn's Trumpet Concerto. |
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Mayumi Fujikawa Summer Concert 1992 ~ Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D Major
Born in Japan, Mayumi Fujikawa began studying the violin with her Father, then at the Toho Conservatory, Tokyo. She continued her studies in Belgium and Nice (where she spent three Summers as a pupil of Leonid Kogan). In May 1970 she won the Grand Prix Henri Vieuxtempts in Belgium with unanimity of the jury. She caused a sensation in Moscow the next month at the International Tchaikovsky Competition and was engaged for an extensive tour of the Soviet Union. Soon after, in 1971, she made an enormously successful American début with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Ormandy. They were so impressed that she was immediately re-engaged for several more concerts with this Orchestra, and since then has returned to America every season playing with many of the major orchestras. Her active career includes regular appearances in London, with all four orchestras, and in other major cities in Europe such as Vienna, Salzburg, Hamburg, Munich, Berlin, Brussels and Amsterdam. |
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Kathryn Stott Summer 1991 ~ Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 1
Following her studies at the Yehudi Menuhin School, the Lancashire born Kathryn Stott graduated to the Royal College of Music. Her international career was launched after winning fifth prize in the Leeds International Piano Competition in 1978. Since then, she has performed with the major Great British Orchestras alongside their foreign counterparts in the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, France and Hong Kong. Her schedule also includes extensive recital and chamber music performances at venues such as the Konzerthaus, Vienna, the Suntory Hall, Tokyo and at the Wigmore Hall, London, where she gave a series of concerts in December 1998. Kathryn Stott works extensively as a chamber musician and, as well as her regular performances with Yo-Yo Ma, she regularly appears with Michael Collins and with the Lindsay, Chilingirian, Skampa and Yggdrasil String Quartets. |
