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Weston Hall - University of West London
St Mary's Road
Ealing
London
W5 5RF
England
Programme
Claude Debussy – String Quartet in G minor, Op.10
Ernest Chausson – Concert for Violin, Piano and String Quartet, Op.21
Leoš Janáček – Violin Sonata
Performers
Tamsin Waley-Cohen – violin
Julian Gallant – piano
Tippett Quartet
Programme Note
The celebrated Tippett Quartet has delighted critics and audiences alike with its animated, virtuosic performances, and its inspired and attractive programming. The Quartet has performed at the BBC Proms, Cheltenham Festival, Snape Proms and numerous festivals throughout the UK and abroad, including tours of Europe, Canada and Mexico. The Quartet regularly appears at Kings Place, Purcell Room, Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Bridgewater Hall and frequently performs on BBC Radio 3.
Born in London in 1986, Tamsin Waley-Cohen enjoys an adventurous and varied career. In addition to concerts with the Royal Philharmonic, London Philharmonic and BBC orchestras, amongst others, she has been associate artist with the Orchestra of the Swan and works with conductors including Andrew Litton and Tamás Vásáry. She enjoys a duo partnership with Huw Watkins, whose Concertino she premiered, and together they have recorded for Champs Hill and Signum Records, for whom she is a Signum Classics Artist.
With her sister, composer Freya Waley-Cohen, and architects Finbarr O’Dempsey and Andrew Skulina, she holds an Open Space residency at Aldeburgh. Her love of chamber music led her to start the Honeymead Festival, now in its ninth year, and she is also artistic director of the Sunday Series at London’s Tricycle Theatre. In 2016-2017 she will be a recipient of the ECHO Rising Stars Awards.
Conductor, pianist and composer Julian Gallant has given recitals at major halls in London, Budapest, Moscow, China, America and Asia and has performed with many international ensembles. As Chief Conductor of the Russian Orchestra of London Gallant premiered works by leading contemporary composers including Sir John Tavener. He has conducted soloists including Yuri Bashmet, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Vladimir Spivakov, Janine Jansen, Chloe Hanslip, Boris Berezovsky and John Lill and orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic, Salzburg Mozarteum, Georgian State Symphony, Armenian Symphony, English Chamber and Russian Philharmonic. He has also conducted opera productions in Moscow, Novosibirsk, Tbilisi and Almaty.
