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Meet the Artist……Craig Stratton
Who or what inspired you to take up the violin, and make it your career? I used to hear my grandfather play violin when I was 7 years old and just seemed to be fascinated by the instrument itself and...
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Meet the Artist……John Mills
Who or what inspired you to take up the violin, and make it your career? No one individual directly; we were asked in school assembly if we would like to learn the violin and I said yes. Still not sure...
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The Roskell Piano Trio at Sutton House
Heather Tuach (cello), Penelope Roskell (piano) and Colin Scobie (violin) Following their previous sell-out concerts, the popular Roskell Piano Trio returns to Sutton House, a fine Tudor house in east...
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Meet the Artist……Maxine Kwok-Adams, violinist
Who or what inspired you to take up the violin and pursue a career in music? My mother studied piano at the Royal Academy of Music in London and my dad loves classical music so they really wanted me to...
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Vivaldi’s ‘Four Seasons’ with violinist Jennifer Pike
Violinist Jennifer Pike is soloist and director in an evening of well-loved classics featuring music by Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky and Elgar. She is joined by an ensemble of outstanding virtuosi with whom...
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Meet the Artist……Itamar Zorman, violinist
Who or what inspired you to take up the violin, and pursue a career in music? I have liked the sound of the violin as long as I can remember. Also, my parents are both musicians but neither play the...
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Meet the Artist…..Yijia Zhang, violinist
Who or what inspired you to take up the violin, and pursue a career in music? On my fifth birthday, my parents surprised me with a cute tiny violin as my birthday present, it was like love at first...
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Meet the Artist……Hugo Ticciati
Who or what inspired you to take up the violin and pursue a career in music? To be honest there was no great epiphany or moment of inspiration, it just always felt like I was meant to be making music...
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Meet the Artist……Peter Sheppard Skærved
Who or what inspired you to take up the violin and pursue a career in music? I don’t remember starting playing the violin, but I can say when chose to pursue it. I have a clear memory of a freezing...
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Meet the Artist…… Rachel Podger
Who or what inspired you to take up the violin, and pursue a career in music? Playing or hearing music around me was such a normal occurrence when I was growing up. From an early age I was involved in...
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Meet the Artist…… Marc Bouchkov, violinist
Who or what inspired you to take up violin and pursue a career in music? This was an easy choice, everybody in my family was playing the violin. It was almost a “Mother language”. I HAD to talk this...
View ArticleMeet the Artist……Madeleine Mitchell, violinist
Who or what inspired you to take up the violin, and pursue a career in music? Although neither of my parents were musicians, they were both very musical and liked to listen to classical music, so we...
View ArticleMeet the Artist – Patricia Kopatchinskaja
When you can play what you like, in the way you like and with whom you like. When you have attained that, you have to stay curious, reinvent yourself and your repertoire all the time to prevent...
View ArticleMeet the Artist – Philippa Mo, violinist
I adore the grit and fire in composers like Prokofiev and Stravinsky and after numerous performances feel that Prokofiev’s Sonata for Two Violins is by now a true friend..
View ArticleMeet the Artist – Michael Barenboim, violinist
I have a soft spot for classical modernity, especially the second Viennese school. But as in the recording I mentioned above, my main interest lies in the juxtaposition of works from different times...
View ArticleMeet the Artist……Lana Trotovsek, violinist
Who or what inspired you to take up the violin, and pursue a career in music? I was growing up around music. My parents are musicians and they practised at home, so when I received a little Chinese...
View ArticlePhilippa Mo at Sladers Yard
A picturesque drive through west Dorset, the sun setting over the sea, snow still covering some of the higher ground along the route, took us to West Bay yesterday evening for a concert by violinist...
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