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Thursday July 26th 2012 - 20h30
Eglise St. Jean-Baptiste
Lorraine McAslan (Violin) & Leo Nicholson (Piano)
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Lorraine McAslan
Lorraine McAslan is one of Britain’s foremost violinists. Born in Glasgow, she trained in London as a pupil of David Martin at the Royal Academy before moving to New York at the age of seventeen, on the recommendation of Isaac Stern, to study with Dorothy DeLay at The Juilliard School. Since then she has shared the concert platform with many of Britain’s greatest orchestras including the London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National, Royal Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Scottish Chamber and English Chamber Orchestra, with conductors such as Andrew Davis, Raymond Leppard, Jerzy Maksymuik, Libor Pešek, the late Sir Alexander Gibson and Jukka-Pekka Saraste.
Her European debut with the Bern Symphony Orchestra under Eliahu Inbal was broadcast live on Swiss Radio. She has since performed extensively throughout Europe, America, Canada and Japan. A committed chamber musician, she has performed in recital with John Blakely, Nigel Clayton, John Lenehan, Michael Dussek and Piers Lane at festivals throughout the UK including Aldeburgh, Bath and Cheltenham.
Lorraine started her recording career in 1985 with an acclaimed disc of the Elgar and Walton violin and piano sonatas. Since then her numerous recordings include concerti by Mozart and Hoffmann, and sonatas by Beethoven, Debussy, Ravel, Saint-Saëns, Martinů, Janáček, Holst, Bridge and Britten. Her critically acclaimed recording of the Britten violin concerto, with the English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Steuart Bedford, was released in 1990 and re-released in 2007.
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Leo Nicholson
Leo Nicholson studied at the Purcell School of Music with Ilana Davids, and at the Royal Northern College of Music Junior Department with Jonathan Middleton. He continues to study with Douglas Finch, at Trinity College London, where he previously studied with the late Yonty Solomon.
In November 2009, Leo won Trinity's John Longmire Beethoven Competition, and competed in the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe's Intercollegiate Competition. He performed Mozart's Piano Concerto in E flat, KV 449, in a workshop for the Worshipful Company of Musicians in February 2010. Leo’s also maintains his childhood links with Sheffield – he performed the Grieg Piano Concerto with the City of Sheffield Youth Orchestra in 2009, and Bartok’s 2nd Concerto with the University of Sheffield Symphony Orchestra this May.
Leo is also a much sought-after accompanist. With Charmian Bedford, he reached the final rounds of both the Elisabeth Schumann Lieder and the Lilian Ash French Song Competitions at Trinity College of Music in 2008, and received an MBF Development Award in association with the Miriam Licette and Maggie Teyte Prizes in 2009. He has performed in many prestigious London venues including the Festival Hall, Purcell Room, Royal Opera House, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, and St. John’s, Smith Square.
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Lorraine McAslan
Lorraine McAslan is one of Britain’s foremost violinists. Born in Glasgow, she trained in London as a pupil of David Martin at the Royal Academy before moving to New York at the age of seventeen, on the recommendation of Isaac Stern, to study with Dorothy DeLay at The Juilliard School. Since then she has shared the concert platform with many of Britain’s greatest orchestras including the London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National, Royal Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Scottish Chamber and English Chamber Orchestra, with conductors such as Andrew Davis, Raymond Leppard, Jerzy Maksymuik, Libor Pešek, the late Sir Alexander Gibson and Jukka-Pekka Saraste.
Her European debut with the Bern Symphony Orchestra under Eliahu Inbal was broadcast live on Swiss Radio. She has since performed extensively throughout Europe, America, Canada and Japan. A committed chamber musician, she has performed in recital with John Blakely, Nigel Clayton, John Lenehan, Michael Dussek and Piers Lane at festivals throughout the UK including Aldeburgh, Bath and Cheltenham.
Lorraine started her recording career in 1985 with an acclaimed disc of the Elgar and Walton violin and piano sonatas. Since then her numerous recordings include concerti by Mozart and Hoffmann, and sonatas by Beethoven, Debussy, Ravel, Saint-Saëns, Martinů, Janáček, Holst, Bridge and Britten. Her critically acclaimed recording of the Britten violin concerto, with the English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Steuart Bedford, was released in 1990 and re-released in 2007.
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Leo Nicholson
Leo Nicholson studied at the Purcell School of Music with Ilana Davids, and at the Royal Northern College of Music Junior Department with Jonathan Middleton. He continues to study with Douglas Finch, at Trinity College London, where he previously studied with the late Yonty Solomon.
In November 2009, Leo won Trinity's John Longmire Beethoven Competition, and competed in the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe's Intercollegiate Competition. He performed Mozart's Piano Concerto in E flat, KV 449, in a workshop for the Worshipful Company of Musicians in February 2010. Leo’s also maintains his childhood links with Sheffield – he performed the Grieg Piano Concerto with the City of Sheffield Youth Orchestra in 2009, and Bartok’s 2nd Concerto with the University of Sheffield Symphony Orchestra this May.
Leo is also a much sought-after accompanist. With Charmian Bedford, he reached the final rounds of both the Elisabeth Schumann Lieder and the Lilian Ash French Song Competitions at Trinity College of Music in 2008, and received an MBF Development Award in association with the Miriam Licette and Maggie Teyte Prizes in 2009. He has performed in many prestigious London venues including the Festival Hall, Purcell Room, Royal Opera House, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, and St. John’s, Smith Square.
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