Since his concerto debut at the age of ten, the English &#;cellist Richard Harwood has performed in major venues throughout the world including the Royal Albert, Wigmore, Carnegie and Suntory Halls, NCPA Beijing, Musikverein, Concertgebouw and Alte Oper.
As concerto soloist, Richard has worked with conductors such as Mark Wigglesworth, Vasily Petrenko, Case Scaglione, Stanislav Kochanovsky, Okko Kamu, and Yehudi Menuhin, and with numerous orchestras including The Philharmonia, RTÉ NSO, Auckland Philharmonia and Ural Philharmonic.
As chamber musician, he has collaborated with the Jerusalem and Endellion Quartets, Joshua Bell, Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet, Olivier Charlier, Benjamin Schmid, Alena Baeva, Murray Perahia, Martin Roscoe, Peter Donohoe and Julius Drake, among others.
Richard&#;s discography includes a debut disc (EMI Classics) with pianist Christoph Berner, Composing Without The Picture (Resonus); a solo album of concert works written by film composers, Christopher Gunning&#;s Cello Concerto and Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, both on Signum and with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He is regularly featured as a soloist on movie soundtracks, one of the most prominent
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Raushan Akhmedyarova
Raushan Akhmedyarova comes from a family of eminent musicians in Kazakhstan. She began her violin studies at the age of five, and at age eleven she won first prize at the National Violin Competition of Kazakhstan. She has also won first prize at the International Competition of Asia in Tashkent, the UNISA International Competition in Pretoria, and the Geneva International Competition. Ms. Akhmedyarova graduated from Kazakh State Conservatory in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and also took private lessons at the Moscow Conservatory. In she received a full scholarship to study at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Her principal teachers have included Eduard Schmieder, Aiman Musakhodjaeva, Svetlana Abdusadykova, and Jacob Fudiman.
From to , Ms. Akhmedyarova she was a member of the New World Symphony, and she was also active in that orchestra’s chamber music series. She has performed in the Czardas In-Context Festival, the Shostakovich project at the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum in Boston, the Isaac Stern chamber music workshop
Leonard Fu
Violin Masterclasses, participant
Kronberg Academy Professional Studies with Antje Weithaas, funded by the Gingko-Foundation
“Leonard Fu is a musician with a calling to be a soloist, an expressive artistic personality and a hopeful for the future of classical music” – Anton Barakhovsky, concertmaster of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Chinese-German violinist Leonard Fu’s love for music began at an early age when his two older sisters were practicing the violin and the piano and he started imitating the melodies on the piano by ear. Despite being non-musicians themselves, his parents saw his potential and enabled his first piano lesson at age four and his first violin lesson at age seven. Since then, Fu has performed in several countries across multiple continents, amongst them Germany, China, Russia, the United States, Italy and Spain.
He is an active soloist and chamber musician and has performed concerts with major orchestras (Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Frankfurt Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Allentown Symphony Orchestra, Hamburger Sinfoniker and others), working with d
Great female violinists of the past
Emily Liz
December 27, at AM &#;
In the New Year's Resolutions thread, Elana Lehrer mentioned that we should have a thread about the great female violinists of the past. It’s a great idea, so here it is. Please post any names of musicians - any biography you’re able to dig up - any good books - links to pictures or recordings - etc.
A handful of female violinists performed in public in the eighteenth century, including Sarah Ottey, Catherine Plunkett, Anne Nichol, and La Diamentina. Most of these women were heard from once or twice, then disappeared into the mists of musical history. The following is an incomplete list of some of the ones who we know something about.
Maddalena Sirmen - (). Studied under Tartini. Was an accomplished composer. According to Wikipedia, was one of the finest musicians ever taught in a Venetian orphanage.
Regina Schlick Strinasacchi (c - ). A violinist, guitarist, and composer. Performed with Mozart; his Sonata in b-flat for violin and keyboard, K. , was written for her.
Caterina Calcagno - (c - ?). Reportedly took lessons from Paganini during her childhood. She
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