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| Vasko
Vassilev is Concertmaster of the Royal
Opera House Orchestra, with whom he performs regularly
as a soloist. He has won top prizes at Jacques Thibaud,
Carl Flesch and Paganini International Competitions.
He plays an 1705 Amati violin. >>more
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| Gordan
Nikolitch In
1998 Gordan Nikolitch was appointed Concertmaster
of the London Symphony Orchestra. He
has won many international prizes, and has also made
a number of recordings. He performs regularly as soloist
with the LSO. Gordan Nikolitch plays a 1695 Joseph
Guarneri violin.
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| David
Juritz is
a leader of the London Mozart Players. He makes frequent
appearances with the LMP and other orchestras as soloist
and conductor. He plays a Giovanni Baptista Guadanini
violin of 1765. >>more
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Philippe
Graffin
style of playing and outstanding achievements have
already placed him among the finest of French violinists.
Graffin’s Interpretations of his native repertoire
compelled Gramophone magazine to proclaim “his
understanding of the idiom is second to none”
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| Winfried
Rademacher studied
with Kurt Schäffer (Düsseldorf), Josef Suk
(Vienna), as well as with Sandor Végh, members
of the Amadeus Quartet and Nathan Milstein.
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| David
Alberman Former
violinist of the Arditi String Quartet, David Alberman
holds a position of Principal Second violin with the
London Symphony Orchestra. He performs regularly as
soloist and chamber musician all over the world. David
Alberman plays a 1725 Guarneri del Jesu violin. >>more |
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| Evgeny
Grach
studied
with legendary violinists David Oistrakh, Leonid Kogan,
Igor Bezrodny and later Henrik Szeryng. He is a prize
winner at the Wieniawski Competition in Poland and
in 1983 he won first prize at the Russian National
Competition. Since 1997 Evgeny Grach has been Principal
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| Alexander
Sitkovetsky
is
one of today’s most promising young artists.
In January 2000 he signed a long-term recording contract
with Angel Records (a part of Capitol/EMI Classics
group). Alexander plays a 1753 Guadagnini violin. |
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| Tom
Eisner is
a member of the London Philharmonic Orchestra since
1986 playing under conductors like Solti, Masur, Haitink
and Gergiev. He gives recitals with his wife, music
journalist and novelist Jessica Duchen. |
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| Yuri
Zhislin has a busy
career as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestra
leader. He won the title of the BBC Radio Two Young
Musician of the Year in 1993 and the Dvarionas International
Competition in Lithuania in 1989. Yuri's debut recital
CD featuring works for violin and viola has been released
on the SOMM Recordings label in the Autumn 2005. >>more |
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| Corina Belcea-Fisher was born in Romania where her teachers were Radu Bozgan and Stefan Gheorghiu. In 1991 she was invited by the late Lord Menuhin to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School with Natalia Boyarskaya.. >>more |
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| Andriy
Vyitovych holds a
position of Principal viola with the Royal Opera House
Orchestra. In 1999 he was appointed Professor of the
Royal College of Music.
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| Roger
Chase was
a member of the Nash Ensemble for many years. He has
been invited as guest principal viola with every major
British orchestra and many others in North America
and Europe, including the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
He has made prize-winning records for EMI, CRD, Hyperion,
Cala, Virgin and Floating Earth Records. Many works
have been inspired and written especially for him,
from solo pieces to concertos and chamber works. |
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Lawrence
Power is
a member of the Nash Ensemble and is a very busy soloist.
LINK
to Hyperion Records website. |
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| Geneviève
Strosser French-born
prize-winning violist Geneviève Strosser has
a busy career as a soloist and chamber musician. She
teaches at Basel Conservatoire in Switzerland. |
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| Alexander
Zemtsov won
prizes at the International Competitions "Classical
Legacy" in Moscow in 1995,the Elise Meyer competition
in Hamburg in 1997, at the 8th Brahms competition
in Austria, in 2001. In 2002 Alexander became Principal
Viola with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. >>more |
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| Ásdís
Valdimarsdottir was born in Reykjavik, Iceland in
1962. She studied at the Juilliard School in New York:
the viola with Paul Doktor and William Lincer and Chamber
Music with Felix Galimir and the members of the Juilliard
Quarteta. >>more |
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| Maxim
Rysanov is
a winner of several major international awards, including
2005 International Geneva Competition, 2003 Lionel
Tertis International Viola Competition, Valentino
Bucchi International Viola Competition. >>more |
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| Krzysztof Chorzelski Born in Warsaw in 1971 Krzysztof Chorzelski enjoys a diverse career as a performing musician that has taken him all over the world. >>more |
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| Oleg
Kogan In
1989 Oleg Kogan won All Soviet Union Cello Competition.
In 1998 he founded the Razumovsky Ensemble of which
he is an Artistic Director. In 1996 he was appointed
Professor of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Oleg plays a Rugieri Cello of 1685. >>more |
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| David Cohen
was born in 1980 into a family of musicians in Belgium in 1994 David joined the Yehudi Menuhin School. Four years later he became a pupil of Oleg Kogan for six years at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama winning the Gold Medal on graduation. >>more |
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| Alexander
Chaushian is
the winner of numerous prestigious awards and competitions
including YCA in New York and Tchaikovsky International
Competition in Moscow. >>more |
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| Louise
Hopkins
performed as a soloist in France, Sweden, Switzerland,
America, Ireland, New Zealand, Belgium and throughout
Britain. Louise is an asossiate deputy head of strings(cellos
and basses) at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. |
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| Leonid
Gorokhov is a distinguished Russian cellist. He
studied
at the St Petersburg Conservatoire; from there he
won a clutch of prizes in both Eastern and Western
Europe including the European Prize for Cultural Achievement
which "recognises exceptional talent and outstanding
artistic accomplishment".>>more |
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Rinat
Ibragimov Studied bass at the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire
in Moscow with professor Evgeny Kolosov and conducting
with Dmitri Kitaenko. He won first prizes in the All-Union
Double Bass Competition in 1984 and in the Giovanni
Bottesini International competition in Parma, Italy,
in1989.
Formerly principal double bass of the Bolshoi Theatre
Orchestra, the Moscow Academy of Ancient Music baroque
ensemble, The Soloists of the Moscow Philharmonic,
and professor at the Moscow Conservatoire.
Conductor and artistic director of the Moscow Instrumental
Capella with whom he regularly appears both as conductor
and soloist, he is now principal double bass with
the London Symphony Orchestra. >>more
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Neil
Tarlton studied at the RCM with Adrian Beers. On
leaving the College he played for Scottish and Welsh
Operas and Northern Sinfonia. His first job was as principal
double-bass with the BBC Welsh Orchestra. On returning
to London he joined the Philharmonia and was a founding
member of the London Double Bass Ensemble, during the
life of which he performed on television and radio and
at venues including the South Bank and Wigmore Hall,
giving many first performances of double-bass repertoire.
He also teaches at the Pimlico Specialist Music Course
and is principal bass of the Philharmonia. He has transcribed
for bass the Sevcik op 2 School of Bowing Technique.
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| Michael
Whight is First Prize
winner in the International Clarinet Congress Competition
and the Royal Overseas League Competition. He holds
position of Principal clarinet with the Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra. His recording of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto
with the RPO was released last year. >>more |
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| Pascal
Moragues Highly acclaimed French clarinettist
Pascal Moragues has a busy career as a soloist and
chamber musician performing all over the world with
the leading musicians. |
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| Julie
Price Julie Price
was appointed Principal Bassoon with BBCS SO in 1987
and three years later joined the Royal Opera House
as Principal. The ECO appointed her in 1994 , the
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in 1998 and then the
BBC Symphony Orchestra in 2001. >>more |
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| Timothy
Jones is currently Principal horn of the London
Symphony Orchestra, Professor of horn at the Royal
Marines School of Music, and a Director of Paxman
French Horns Ltd. |
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Marc
Andre Hamelin - Highly
acclaimed Canadian pianist Marc Andre Hamelin has
a busy career as soloist performing recitals and concertos
all over the world.
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| Ian
Brown - Ian Brown is a musician of great versatility
whose career embraces chamber music, solo and duo
playing and conducting. >>more |
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Ronan
O'Hora - Ronan O’Hora
has performed extensively throughout the world, playing
concertos with such orchestras as the London Philharmonic,
Philharmonia, BBC Symphony, English Chamber Orchestra,
Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Zurich Tonhalle,
Indianapolis Symphony. >>more
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| Benjamin
Frith won the Gold Medal at the 1989 Arthur Rubinstein
piano Masters Competition in Israel as well as a top
prize at the Busoni International Piano Competition
in Italy. Benjamin is well known for his extensive
number of recordings for amongst others the Naxos
Label and combines his busy international solo career
with chamber music. He is a professor at the Royal
Northern College of Music. |
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| Polina
Kogan studied at the Lithuanian Academy of Music
and Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. After
gaining the degree of Master of Music (Performance)
with Distinction she was invited to teach at the RSAMD. >>more |
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| Philip Dukes Philip Dukes’ recital debut at London 's South Bank in 1991, described by "The Strad" magazine as "world class", marked the beginning of a career that is now established as one of the foremost of his generation. >>more |
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