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BIOGRAPHIES
The
English String Quartet has a wide national and international reputation,
with concerts and extensive tours in this country, Europe and the USA,
and broadcasts for the BBC and radio stations abroad. Many CDs have
been recorded for several labels, including Chandos, Meridian and Unicorn-Kanchana,
and the disc of Mendelssohn Quartets received the British Music Retailers
Association Award for Excellence in Chamber Music. The English String
Quartet has been 'resident ensemble' at the Festival since 1995.
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 Richard
Durrant.Since his debut in 1986 Richard Durrant has performed nearly
all the mainstream guitar repertoire and a lot more besides. From his own
transcriptions of Scarlatti for classical guitar to performances of the
Bach Cello Suites on Tenor Banjo; from his own compositions for various
combinations, including the band Sky, to world premieres of solo pieces
on London's South Bank, the Albert Hall and at St John's, Smiths Square.
Durrant has covered most aspects of his instrument's personality - inventing
a few more along the way.
Durrant can be heard in concert
throughout the UK and mainland Europe, usually performing in a cabaret
setting but also suited and booted for chamber and concerto works. He also
tours with bass supremo Herbie Flowers and with his own maverick trio "UnGaggged!".
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 David
Farmer. The young classical accordionist David Farmer has already
attracted considerable critical acclaim:"A talent to watch" The Independent"
He is manifestly born to his instrument. He seems almost organically joined
to it, with a naturalness of technique that is clearly a natural stylishness"
The Sunday Times "....played with beguiling presence and skill" Financial
Times "The brilliant accordionist David Farmer squeezed and shook sounds
from his instrument that we hardly guessed existed" Evening Standard
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 Emily
Hazlehurst studied the viola at Trinity College of Music with Jane
Atkins and Luciano Iorio. During her four years at Trinity Emily
won the Concerto competition, the Solo Bach Prize and the Barbirolli Quartet
Prize; in the final year she was awarded the Guivier String Prize and the
Louise Band Prize for a continuous high standard of playing. Emily
went on to study with Bruno Giuranna at Limerick University, where she
completed a Masters Degree in Classical String Performance. She is
now developing a career as a freelance player and as a teacher, as well
as a chamber music player, and gives Duo Recitals with the pianist David
Harvey, with whom she has performed in many venues throughout England.
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 Martin
Jones is one of Britian's most highly regarded solo and chamber
music pianists. He has performed with the major British orchestras, has
appeared in all the main concert halls throughout the country and has extensively
toured Europe, Russia and North and South America. His many discs include
the complete solo piano works of Brahms, Debussy, Grainger, Mendelssohn,
Stravinsky and Szymanowski.He has recently released two boxes of CDs of
Spanish music, and a third will soon follow, including the major works
of Albeniz and Turina as well as the complete piano works by de Falla,
Granados and Mompou. Martin has played at the London Festival of
Chamber Music every year since it began.
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 David
Kenedy studied the cello with William Pleeth from the age of 11,
before gaining degrees from Cambridge and Yale, where he was a pupil of
Aldo Parisot and winner of major prizes. He gives recitals and broadcasts
in Europe and the USA, and his recordings of piano trios by Schubert and
Dvorak with the London Mozart Trio were selected as "overall first choice"
in BBC Radio 3's Record Review. He has twice had the honour of being
invited to play in Jacqueline du Pré Memorial Concerts, at Lambeth
Palace and in the Wigmore Hall. Since 1990 he has been Professor
of cello and chamber music at Trinity College of Music, where he is Post-Graduate
Course Leader. He is a member of the London Piano Quartet and
teaches and performs regularly at the Dartington International Summer School.
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violinist Nona Liddell
has had a long and varied career as a soloist, chamber music player, orchestral
leader and teacher. As a soloist she made her debut at the age of
20 at the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts with the BBC Symphony Orchestra
under the baton of Sir Adrian Boult, and has appeared with most of the
leading British orchestras. She was for many years the leader of
the English String Quartet (which, now in a new formation led by Diana
Cummings, is "in residence" at this Festival) and of the Richards Piano
Quartet, and is now a member of the London Piano Quartet. From 1970
to 1994 she was leader of the internationally renowned London Sinfonietta,
with which she often appeared as soloist both in this country and abroad.
She also led the Monteverdi and London Bach Orchestras and has appeared
as guest leader of, among others, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique and,
in Spain, the City of Granada Orchestra. A regular broadcaster on
radio and TV, Nona has made many records for Deutsche Grammophon, Decca,
L'Oiseau Lyre and Lyrita. After teaching for many years at the Royal
Academy of Music, she is now Professor of Violin and Chamber Music at Trinity
College of Music. In 1992 she was made an M.B.E. and in 1994 she
was awarded the Worshipful Company of Musicians' Cobbett Medal for services
to chamber music.
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violinist Gabrielle Painter
has performed throughout Europe, Canada and the United States as soloist,
chamber music player and orchestral leader. Her recent concerto engagements
include performances of Szymanowski's First Violin Concerto and Lou Harrison's
Violin Concerto in New York and a performance of the Triple Concerto by
Beethoven in Germany, recorded for German National Radio. As a chamber
musician she has performed for numerous organizations, including the Cathedral
of Saint John the Divine Chamber Music Series (NY), the Banff Centre for
the Arts (Canada), the Miller Theatre (NY) and the Leeds International
Concert Series (UK). She has performed many works written for her,
and she is a founding member of the New York based furious band, who have
premiered works of many composers and have recorded for CRI and New World
Records. Gabrielle holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Royal
Academy of Music in London, where she studied with Diana Cummings, and
a Master of Music degree from the State University of New York at Stony
Brook where she will also receive her Doctorate of Musical Arts Degree
in December. At Stony Brook she was a scholarship student of and
Teaching Assistant to Mitchell Stern who sadly passed away this year.
Gabrielle is the winner of the 2001 Montgomery Violin Competition (United
States).
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