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Soloists 2005-

 

Melanie Armitstead - mezzo soprano

Berlioz: Nuits d'été, Church of St Philip and St James, Cheltenham, February 2005

[read review]

 

 

 

Edgar Bailey - violin

Gloucestershire Young Musician 2007

Max Bruch: Violin Concerto no.1, Leonard Stanley Priory, June 2007

[read review]

 

 

 

Volodja Balzalorsky - violin

Brahms: Violin Concerto, Pershore Abbey, October 2009

[read review]

Further information:

www.balzalorsky.net

 

James Barralet - cello

Winner of Philip and Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists 2008

Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variations, Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, May 2009 [read review]

Further information:

www.jamesbarralet.com

 

Kerry Beaumont - Piano

Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 23 in A, K488, Leonard Stanley Priory, November 2006

Further information:

www.organrecitals.com/1/recitals.php?organist=kerbea

 

 

Kate Bennett - Narrator

Dahl/Patterson: Little Red Riding Hood, Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, December 2009 and December 2005

 

 

 

 

Alastair Chapman - Bass baritone

Narrator, Roald Dahl/Patterson's Little Red Riding Hood, Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, December 2009.

Baritone soloist in Britten's War Requiem, Tewkesbury Abbey and Colston Hall, Bristol, November 2008

Narrator and Wolf in Paul Patterson's Three Little Pigs, Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, December 2006 [read review]

Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn, All Saints' Church, Cheltenham, February 2006 [read review]

Narrator in Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury, October 2004

 

Rachel Chapman - soprano

Britten:War Requiem, Tewkesbury Abbey and Colston Hall, Bristol, November 2008

Further information:

www.rachelchapman.net

 

Oliver Coates - cello

Winner of Philip and Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists 2006

Dvorak: Cello Concerto, Tewkesbury Abbey, October 2007

[read review]

Further Information

www.olivercoates.com

 

Emma Denton - cello

Chapman: Cello Concerto, Tewkesbury Abbey, October 2005

[read review]

 

 

 

 

Richard Edgar-Wilson - tenor

Britten:War Requiem, Tewkesbury Abbey and Colston Hall, Bristol, November 2008

Further information

www.rayfieldartists.com

 

 

Alec Frank-Gemmill - french horn

Winner of Philip and Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists 2007

Kane: Horn Concerto (2007) (world première), Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, May 2008 [read review]

 

 

 

Ashok Gupta - piano

Gloucestershire Musician 2005

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, Leonard Stanley Priory, July 2005

 

 

 

 

Rachel Howgego - cello

Elgar: Cello Concerto, Église Alby-sur-Chéran, July 2008

Elgar: Cello Concerto, Wycliffe College Chapel, June 2008

 

 

 

Fenella Humphreys - violin

Winner of Philip and Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists 2005

Max Bruch: Scottish Fantasy, Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, December 2006 [read review]

Further information

www.myspace.com/fenellahumphreys,
www.lawsontrio.com and www.fenellahumphreys.moonfruit.com/

 

Amelia Jones - Violin

Gloucestershire Young Musician 2006

Bruch: Violin Concerto no. 1, Église St Maurice, Annecy, August 2008

Kabalevsky: Violin Concerto, Leonard Stanley Priory, July 2006

 

 

 

Peter Kerr - bassoon

Mozart: Bassoon Concerto, Winchcombe Parish Church, November 2009

 

Further information: www.classicwind.org.uk

 

 

Alasdair Macaskill - piano

Gloucestershire Young Musician 2008

Shostakovich: Piano Concerto no.2, All Saints' Church, Cheltenham, March 2009

 

 

Janet McKechnie - clarinet

Mozart: Clarinet Concerto, Église St Pierre de Faverges, July 2008

 

 

 

 

Jonathan McNaught - piano

Gloucestershire Young Musician 2009

Grieg: Piano Concerto, Pates Grammar School, Cheltenham, February 2010 and Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, December 2009

 

 

 

Diana Moore - Mezzo-soprano

Mahler: Symphony no. 3. Tewkesbury Abbey, June 2007 [read review]

Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn, All Saints' Church, Cheltenham, February 2006 [read review]

Further information

www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Moore-Diana.htm

 

 

Jana Nováková - violin

Brahms: Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra, All Saints' Church, Cheltenham, March 2005

 

 

 

 

Jan Pálenicek - cello

Brahms: Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra, All Saints' Church, Cheltenham, March 2005

 

 

 

 

Matthew Sharp - cello

Elgar: Cello Concerto, Pershore Abbey, November 2007

Further information

www.matthewsharp.net

 

 

 

Therese de Souza - violin

Beethoven: Romance in F, Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, December 2008

 

 

 

Samantha Ward - piano

Winner of Philip and Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists 2004

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto no. 1, Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, December 2008

Rachmaninov: Variations on a theme by Paganini, Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, December 2007 [read review]

Grieg: Piano Concerto, Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, May 2005 [read review]

Further information:

www.samanthaward.co.uk

 

Wu Qian - piano

Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 21 in C K467, Town Hall, Cheltenham, March 2008 [read review]

Further information

www.margaretmurphy.com