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Edward Daniel, Violin
Edward grew up in Shedfield in the Meon Valley, and started the violin age five. He learnt locally before winning a music scholarship to Winchester College. After finishing his Bachelor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, he studied his Artist’s Diploma at the Hochschule für Musik, Hannover, in the class of Ulf Schneider. He graduated with top marks. Edward has performed solo and chamber music in many of the major London venues including the Barbican Centre, Wigmore Hall and St John’s Smith Square. As a member of Camerata Freden, Germany, he has broadcast numerous times for German radio. Last summer Ed recorded the Korngold Piano Quintet and String Sextet with the group, on the German recording label, Tacet (www.tacet.de) which has just been released and won the German Record Critic’s Prize and been nominated for the ICMA (International Classical Music Awards)2013 awards.Ed is a regular attendee of festivals and masterclasses; recently performing at the Kronberg Masterclasses in Germany and the Aurora masterclasses in Sweden, the Festival de Musique de Menton, and the Festival de la Foret, both in France. |
Michał Ćwiżewicz, Violin
Performing frequently in the UK and abroad, Michal Cwizewicz’s playing has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 as well as Polish national radio and television. As a recitalist and chamber musician he has performed in the UK, across Europe and as far afield as Kuwait. Co-founder of the ATMA-duo and award-winning Cremona Piano Trio he also leads the Kallisto Quartet, currently under the guidance of the Ysaÿe Quartet in Paris and Günter Pichler of the Alban Berg Quartet. Described in Music-Web-International as “masterly and lyrical”, Bob Briggs wrote of Michal’s performance of the Szymanowski Violin Concerto “one could believe that one was listening to a fiddler at the very top of his profession, not someone setting out on the threshold of what could be a major career.” Concerto performances have taken him across Europe to Spain, France, the Czech Republic, Germany and Poland including London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, Cadogan Hall and St John’s, Smith Square. British-born Michal’s violin lessons began at the age of three with Lisette Meguerditchian at the Alexandria Conservatoire in Egypt before continuing in London with teachers Judith Smith, Krzysztof Smietana and Itzhak Rashkovsky. Prior to his postgraduate studies at the RCM, he studied at Imperial College for four years and in 2007 was awarded Masters in Aeronautical Engineering. In 2011 he was presented to Her Majesty the Queen at the Young Performers Reception at Buckingham Palace. Michal is assistant professor at the Royal College of Music, London. |
Matthias Wiesner, Viola
Matthias Wiesner studied the violin with Ida Bieler at the Robert Schumann Conservatoire in Düsseldorf and the viola with Alexander Zemtsov at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. Matthias has won prizes at both national and international competitions including a broadcast on German radio. As a member of the Idomeneo Quartet he was a recipient of the Park Lane Group and the Tunnell Trust Award, and the formation was selected “best new-comer ensemble in 2009” by Jeunesses Musicales Germany. Matthias has been a member of the training schemes “String Experience” of the London Symphony and “Future Firsts” of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and recently joined the BBC Symphony Orchestra as a Tutti Viola. |
Jean-Paul Pruna, Piano
French pianist Jean-Paul Pruna was a Jette Parker Young Artist at the Royal Opera House from 2010 to 2012. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the National Opera Studio and is a Samling Scholar. He was répétiteur with the Royal Opera House music staff for Hänsel und Gretel, Die Zauberflöte, Fidelio, Werther, Cendrillon, Suor Angelica, Faust, Così fan tutte, Rusalka, Rigoletto, La Fille du régiment, Falstaff, Salome and Otello, working with Sir Antonio Pappano, Sir Colin Davis, Yannick Nezet-Séguin and singers of international renown. He also played continuo for Il Viaggio Reims for the JPYA Programme's 10th Anniversary Summer Performance on the ROH main stage. He is a regular accompanist for recitals in the Linbury Theatre, Crush Room, Paul Hamlyn Hall and other ROH venues. Since leaving the JPYA Programme, he has worked on Don Quichotte for Chelsea Opera Group, Otello and Lucia di Lammermoor (conducted by Richard Bonynge) for Cape Town Opera, Die Entführung aus dem Serail for Garsington Opera, The Barber of Seville for Nationale Reisopera, El Gato con Botas for ROH, La Clemenza di Tito and Il Re Pastore for Classical Opera Company, Ariodante for Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Porgy and Bess for Cape Town Opera at the Liceu in Barcelona. He has played for recitals and concerts in London, and has toured extensively through France, Spain and South Africa as an accompanist. As an accompanist, he has performed in many London venues including King’s Place, the Barbican and the Wigmore Hall. Further credits include répétiteur/performer for the French production of Franco Mannino’s Lied-Opera Le notti bianche at Théatre des Variétés in Monte-Carlo, répétiteur/continuo on La scala di seta and Il signor Bruschino for British Youth Opera and Pelléas et Mélisande for Opera Holland Park. Future plans include Barber of Seville at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Pearlfishers, Orphée et Eurydice and Billy Budd Nationale Reisopera, La voix humaine for Opéra de Lille, as well as recitals in France, Ireland and the UK. |
Ulrikke Henninen, Violoncello
Born in Norway in 1990 Ulrikke began playing the cello at the age of 7. From 2002 she gained a place at the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo and in 2006 got accepted to the Conservatory Class. In 2009 she continued her education as a bachelor student at the Hochschule fuer Musik in Hannover with Leonid Gorokhov. In September 2013 Ulrikke will take residence in Oslo to study master with Truls Mork. Ulrikke has been engaged in solo performances with several orchestras, such as the Vestfold Symphony Orchestra, the Minsk Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, the orchestra of HMTM Hannover and the Junge Sinfonieorchester Hannover, with whom she in 2012 made a small tour in Germany. Ulrikke has received several scholarships to support her musical career, such as RWE Dea’s scholarship to support her music education in Germany. Ulrikke has won several first prizes in national competitions in Norway and is a regular guest at several European chamber music festivals, including the Lofoten International Chamber Music Festival (Norway), Copenhagen Summer Festival (Denmark), The Northern Lights Festival (Norway), Podium Festival Iceland, Festival de Musique de Menton (France) and the Fredener Internationale Musiktage (Germany). Ulrikke is also the co-founder and artistic co-director of the Spencer Music Festival, a chamber music festival taking place in Hampshire, England. Ulrikke plays a Leopold Widhalm cello c.1735. |
Lars Espen Rosness
Lars Espen Rosness is from Oslo, Norway. He studied in Trondheim and Copenhagen and finished his masters degree in performance at Université de Montréal with prof. Marc Durand in 2013. He has performed concerts in Scandinavia, England, Spain, France and Canada as soloist and chamber musician, and he also has experience with contemporary music and jazz. He is the winner of several prizes and scholarships from Norway, Denmark and Canada. He has participated in several top festivals and masterclasses such as the Banff Center International Piano Masterclass, IMS Prussia Cove in England and Valencia International Piano Academy in Spain and has worked with an impressive list of internationally renowned professors and musicians, such as Thomas Adés, Julian Martin, Andrzej Jasinski, André Laplante, Rita Wagner, Jiri Hlinka, Niklas Sivelöv, Hamish Milne and Dominique Weber. His repertoire spans more than fifteen piano concertos and covers some of the most challenging repertoire. After graduating Rosness returned to study finally in Oslo, where he is currently pursuing various projects both locally and abroad. In 2008 Rosness and french soprano Estelle Beréau formed the duo Boreal'Duet which is active in both France and Scandinavia. In 2012 Rosness signed himself up as a volunteer artist in the non-profit organization The Art of Giving Back in United States. |
Ashok has performed all over the world and currently leads a busy and varied career combining solo performances and teaching with a variety of chamber music.
Ashok made his solo Wigmore Hall debut in 2010 as a result of winning the Worshipful Company of Musicians/Concordia Foundation Young Artists Fund award. He has won many other awards and prizes, including 1st prize in the 2006 J. & A. Beare Solo Bach Competition, the 2007 Royal College of Music Cello Competition and the 2009 Tunnell Trust concert scheme with pianist Joseph Middleton.
Currently a member of the Artea Quartet, Ashok is also a member cello octet 'Cellophony' and the London International Players. From 2009 to 2011 Ashok was cellist in the Barbirolli Quartet, during which time he toured Singapore and New Zealand, appeared throughout Europe as part of the ECHO 'Rising Stars' scheme and performed on the 1692 'Segelman' Stradivarius cello kindly loaned to him by the Royal Academy of Music.
Passionate about both performing and teaching, Ashok is a member of the Advisory Board for The London Cello Society and has given cello classes at the Yehudi Menuhin School and the Royal Academy of Music as well as chamber music classes at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
Ashok has performed many times on BBC Radio 3 and he has recorded for the Nimbus Alliance label with the Barbirolli Quartet, and for the Music Chamber and Edition Classics labels as a member of Cellophony.
Ashok is a Founder and joint Artistic Director of the Highgate International Chamber Music Festival in London, in which he has performed with musicians such as Nicola Benedetti, Irina Botan, Natalie Klouda, Priya Mitchell, Wu Qian, Daniel Rowland and Alexander Sitkovetsky. Ashok performs on a cello made in 2012 by Tibor Szemmelweisz.
Photo: Veronika Kotkova
