Artists

Her concert repertoire ranges from Handel to Macmillan and she has worked with many conductors including Ed Gardner, Sir Neville Marriner, Phillipe Herreweghe and Sir Charles Mackerras.

Already highly accomplished on the operatic stage, her recent engagements include Boris Godonov, Despina in Cosi fan Tutte, The Coronation of Poppea, Yum-Yum in The Mikado, Télaïre in Rameau’s Castor et Pollux, Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier for English National Opera and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte for Garsington Opera.

In 2010, Sophie received the Critics' Circle Award for Exceptional Young Talent, the judges noting that she had ‘already attracted warmly appreciative critical and public attention, earning rapturous praise last year for her singing of Susanna in Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro at Garsington Opera and of Polissena in Handel’s Radamisto at English National Opera’.

Future engagements include a recital at the Wigmore Hall and her debut with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

He now performs with orchestras across the world from the Royal Philharmonic to the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. Alexander has recorded for Angel/EMI, and Decca including the Bach Double Concerto with Julia Fischer. He is in much demand with chamber music partners including Julia Fischer, Janine Jansen, Misha Maisky, and Julian Rachlin.

working with Sir Neville Marriner, Yuri Bashmet, Neeme Järvi, and Vassily Sinaisky to name but a few.

A keen chamber musician he has performed at Festival such as Verbier, Lugano, and Edinburgh playing regularly with such colleagues as Janine Jansen, Maxim Rysanov and Alexei Ogrintchouk.

In 2001 he was a finalist at the Queen Elizabeth Violin Competition and won the 2001 Reuters Prize and in 2004 he won the Guildhall School of Music's highest award, the Gold Medal (past winners include Jacqueline du'Pre, Tasmin Little and Bryn Terfel). Boris Brovtsyn was born in 1977. After graduating from Moscow's Central Music School in 1994, he entered the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory where he studied with Maya Glezarova. During his time there he became a laureate of international competitions, such as Georg Kulenkampf (1994, Cologne), Transnet (1996, Pretoria) and Yehudi Menuhin (1998), before graduating with top honours in 1999.

many others and in 1995 Philip made his BBC Promenade Concerto début returning frequently over the following years. Philip is also Professor of Viola at the Royal Academy of Music in London, Artist-in-Residence at Queen’s University Belfast, Artistic Director of Marlborough College and Artistic Director of the Festival International de Musique de la Hague in France. Philip Dukes was unanimously elected a Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in recognition of his success as an international viola soloist, and is an Honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.

On the 20th March, 2011, Philip will perform an anniversary concert on an Archinto Stradivarius Viola (RAM Collection) celebrating 20 years since his 1991 début recital at The Purcell Room.

In February 2013 Cohen made his Canadian Opera Company debut with a production of La Clemenza di Tito, directed by Christopher Alden. At the Festival della Valle d’Itria, he conducted the Italian permiere of D'avalos's opera Maria di Venosa. In 2012 he Opened the season of the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari with a new production of Massenet’s Don Quichotte.

Working regularly at the Israeli Opera, Cohen has conducted productions including Tchaikovsky’sPique Dame, Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Berg’s Wozzeck and Verdi’s La Traviata, Rigoletto & Otello.

Contemporary music is a prominent feature in Cohen’s repertoire and over the last two seasons he has taken part in the Lucerne Festival Academy’s Composer Project, working alongside Pierre Boulez. This collaboration culminated in a performance of a new commission by Benjamin Attahir at the 2013 Lucerne Festival.

Daniel Cohen is also greatly supported by Daniel Barenboim and was his assistant at the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra were he has been involved in the preparation of a Beethoven symphonies cycle as well as major works by Schoenberg and Boulez.

...by the Royal Philharmonic Society, Michael has played with all the great orchestras and has his own recital series at the Wigmore Hall. He has performed at the BBC Proms more often than any other wind soloist, including several appearances at the renowned Last Night of the Proms.

She was flautist with the Fires of London and Albion Ensemble and Principal Flute with the London Mozart Players. Now she continues her love of chamber music as a member of the Nash Ensemble and London Winds.

Since her much-admired performance of Mozart's D major concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms in 1988 she has become a popular BBC Proms artist.

Philippa's numerous recordings include Mozart's entire original concertos and quartets, Bach's Flute Sonatas with Maggie Cole. Her schedule also includes many world premières and numerous distinguished composers have dedicated works specifically to her. She is a Professor at the Guildhall School of Music.

of his generation. In recent years, the winner of the Borlettti-Buitoni-Trust and long time protégé of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation has caught the attention of today's greatest international conductors such as Valery Gergiev and Christoph Eschenbach. A passionate chamber musician, he has performed with Katia & Marielle Labéque, Helene Grimaud and Gidon Kremer's Kremerata Baltica. This Summer Leonard will give his American debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as well as at the Musikverein in Vienna with the Staatskapelle Dresden.

such as the Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouwe and the Beers Van Berlage Hall in Amsterdam, the Marble Hall in Budapest, Leeds International Concert Series, the Lysenko Hall of Marble Columns in Kyiv, the Expo Dome in Japan - which was broadcast on Japanese National television. Harriet premiered Robert Fokkens violin concerto, written and dedicated to her, at the South Bank. She has broadcast recitals 'live' for BBC Radio 3, Radio London, Classic FM and for Hungarian National Radio. Harriet regularly gives concerto performances in the UK and abroad.

London, and the Saint-Säens Piano Concerto No 2 with the Philharmonia Orchestra.  Since then she has gone on to perform at international festivals and concerts halls across the world from the Royal Festival Hall, London to the Steinway Halls in New York.

His recent album with the Lighthouse Trio was universally praised as "sublime", "flawless", "impressive" "a marker that few others are likely to equal". Gwilym has won the Perrier award, was the first BBC Radio 3 New Generation jazz Artist, voted “Jazz Musician of the Year” at the 2007 Parliamentary Jazz Award (and nominated again in 2010), and nominated for the 2008 BBC Jazz Awards as Best Instrumentalist. His impressive formal education includes the Royal Academy of Music (London) where he graduated with the coveted 'Principal's Prize' for outstanding achievement.

How that audience must have felt on hearing that music for the first time? Concerts with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE) offer a chance to get a little closer to that experience. All the creature comforts of a 21st century concert hall are still there of course, but the OAE aims to create as authentic a musical experience as possible, using period instruments from the day to recreate the sound-world the composer would have known. Together with that, OAE performances are characterised by a sense of collective endeavour, passion and warmth, with the aim of making every concert an edge of seat experience - for audience and musicians alike.

"They hit the spot and keep you reeling." The Times

He has worked with the leading orchestras in the UK and further afield including Sir John Eliot Gardiner for the BBC Proms, Sir Charles Mackerras, Edward Gardner and ‘Tristan und Isolde’ with the Rotterdam Philharmonic and Valery Gergiev. He performs regular recitals including at prestigious festivals such as the Aldeburgh Festival and at London’s Wigmore Hall.

Miloš has performed at prestigious venues across the world including locally the Wigmore Hall, to St Martin in the Fields, and internationally from Russia, to Australia and New Zealand. He has given live broadcasts on BBC Radio 3, Classic FM, ABC and Serbian National Radio and television network.

Miloš has premiered works by Anthony Gilbert, Howard Skempton, Elena Firsova, Stephane Altier, Patrick Nunn, Ben Foskett, Tom Lane, Elena Vorotko, Carlos Duque, Mark Bowden, Emily Hall, Chris Mayo, Anna Meredith, Philip Venables, and Robert Percy and he has given the UK premiere of Sequenza No.13 by Luciano Berio. In masterclasses he has received guidance from many distinguished musicians, including Nicholas Cleobury, John Williams, Steven Isserlis and Gorgy Kurtag. Miloš is also a keen chamber musician. He is a member of the London Tango quintet, Kosmos Ensemble and AccordDuo.

In March 2008, Miloš Milivojević was the Winner of the prestigious Derek Butler London Prize at the Wigmore Hall.

“Milivojevic’s artistry on the humble button accordion took the breath away - indeed, his coruscating transcription of an organ chorale by Mendelssohn made one almost wonder whether we actually need those thundering giants. I’d put money on this brilliant young performer opening a whole range of new musical worlds” Michael Church, The Independent, March 2008

the title role in Gluck’s Orfeo (Netherlands), Gualtiero in Scarlatti’sGriselda (Berlin Staatsoper, Innsbruck Festival); Goffredo Rinaldo (Berlin Staatsoper, Innsbruck Festival, Opéra de Montpellier); Ottone Agrippina (La Monnaie, Frankfurt, Theatre de Champs-Elysees, Wiesbaden), Giuliano in Cavalli’sEliogabalo (Brussels, Paris), Ottone L’incoronazione Di Poppea (Berlin Staatsoper, La Monnaie, Bayerische Staatsoper); Endimione La Calisto (Bayerische Staatsoper), Arsamene Serse (Theatre des Champs-Elysees, English National Opera), and the title role in George Frideric Handel’s Sosarme (Sao Carlos, Lisbon).

Lawrence Zazzo is also closely associated with 20th century and contemporary music with many roles created for him including the role of Trinculo in Thomas Ades’ The Tempest at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. He works with many distinguished conductors in the fields of Baroque and contemporary music, includingRené Jacobs, Ivor Bolton, William Christie, and Harry Christophers. He was the first western counter-tenor invited to China, where he sang Messiah at the Shanghai Opera. His international concert career highlights include: Messiah in Notre Dame Cathedral with the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris and in a European tour with René Jacobs and the Freiburger Barockorchester, Bach Lutheran Masses under Joshua Rifkin in Leipzig, St. Matthew Passion (BWV 244) in Ambronay and Köthen with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, the title role in Mozart’s Ascanio in Alba with theBerliner Symphoniker, J.S. Bach's B Minor Mass (BWV 232) in Gdansk, and Saul in Berlin and Lisbon with René Jacobs and Concerto Köln. His Canadian debut was as Didymus in Theodora in Ottawa under Trevor Pinnock and he sang the title roles of G.F. Handel’S Lotario and Riccardo Primo with the Kammerorchester Basel in a European tour with Paul Goodwin. Major future plans include the title role of Giulio Cesare at La Monnaie, the Netherlands Opera and Bilbao, Oberon A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Lyon and Toronto, and Endimione La Calisto at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and in Munich.

He performs regularly throughout the UK at prestigious venues including the Royal Albert Hall and the Royal Festival Hall, with leading orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, often broadcasting for the BBC.

In 2003, his rich and resonant bass was heard in the role of Lorenzo in I Capulettied I Montecchi conducted by Sir Richard Bonynge. This appearance was one amongst many in major roles for English National Opera, which include Don Basilio in Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Somnus in George Frideric Handel’s Semele and Quince in Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

In 2005, he played Charrington in LorinMaazel’s Covent Garden commission of 1984, a part written especially for him, and played Gonzalo in Thomas Adès’ The Tempest in 2006.