Katya Apekisheva
Katya Apekisheva
Katya Apekisheva
DESCRIBED AS A 'PROFOUNDLY GIFTED ARTIST' BY GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE, KATYA APEKISHEVA HAS EARNED HER PLACE AS ONE OF EUROPE'S MOST RENOWNED AND GIFTED PIANISTS
Bom in Moscow, into a family of musicians, she attended the Gnessin Music School for exceptionally gifted children making her stage debut at the age of 12. She continued her studies in
DESCRIBED AS A 'PROFOUNDLY GIFTED ARTIST' BY GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE, KATYA APEKISHEVA HAS EARNED HER PLACE AS ONE OF EUROPE'S MOST RENOWNED AND GIFTED PIANISTS
Bom in Moscow, into a family of musicians, she attended the Gnessin Music School for exceptionally gifted children making her stage debut at the age of 12. She continued her studies in Jerusalem at the Rubin Music Academy and later at the Royal College of Music in London. From these auspicious beginnings she went on to be a Prizewinner of the Leeds International Piano competition and has gone on to enjoy a career performing with many of the world's leading orchestras, including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Halle Orchestra, the Moscow Philharmonic, the Jerusalem Symphony, the English Chamber Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, working with renowned conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, David Shallon, Jan Latham-Koenig and Alexander Lazarev.
HER LATEST DISC IS A COLLECTION OF IMPROMPTUS OF WHICH INTERNATIONAL
PIANO CALLED 'A FASCINATING AND
ENGROSSING ALBUM'.
As a recording artist, Katya has received widespread critical acclaim for her interpretations from Gramophone Magazine's Editor's Choice award and International Piano Magazine's Critics' choice to Classic FM's CD of the week as well as a Classical Brit award to name but a few. Katya's discography includes solo and chamber works by Mussorgsky.
Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Dvorak and Rachmaninov.
Recent and future highlights include performances in Russia, Norway, Japan, Switzerland, Italy, Denmark, Germany, Australia and at home in the UK at the Bath Mozart Fest, St. George's Bristol and the prestigious Wigmore Hall - where she is a regular presence.
Her intense artistry and delicacy makes Katya a most sought after collaborative pianist, working with artists such as Janine Jansen, Natalie Clein, Guy Johnston, Maxim Rysanov, Jack Liebeck, Boris Brovtsyn, Alexei Ogrinchouk and Nicholas Daniel and she appears regularly at major chamber music festivals around the world. Katya also has a highly successful and personally rewarding piano duo partnership with Charles Owen, performing regularly at festivals worldwide. Together they are co-Artistic Directors of the London Piano Festival which began in 2016.
Tim Posner
Katya Apekisheva
Katya Apekisheva
Praised by Charlotte Gardner (Gramophone Magazine) for ‘tremendous tonal beauty across his cello’s range, making it sing with hugely attractive mellow, melancholic passion’ and by Geoff Brown (The Times) for ‘technical excellence hand in hand with open emotion’, Tim Posner was the winner of the Thierry Scherz Prize at Sommets Musicaux de
Praised by Charlotte Gardner (Gramophone Magazine) for ‘tremendous tonal beauty across his cello’s range, making it sing with hugely attractive mellow, melancholic passion’ and by Geoff Brown (The Times) for ‘technical excellence hand in hand with open emotion’, Tim Posner was the winner of the Thierry Scherz Prize at Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad 2023. He was also the first British cellist to have been awarded a prize at the International Karl Davidov Competition. Born in 1995, Tim has performed as soloist with orchestras including the NDR Radiophilharmonie, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Mozart Players with conductors such as Andrew Manze.
Tim recently made his debut concerto CD with the Bern Symphony Orchestra, recording works by Bloch, Bruch and Dohnanyi, which has received much critical acclaim. Michel Stockhem (Clic Musique) wrote ‘This new version could establish itself as a modern reference’ and Graham Rickson (The Arts Desk) described him as ‘magnificent throughout’. It was selected by The Strad as part of its ‘The Strad Recommends’ reviews and he has recently been made the ‘One to Watch’ feature in Gramaphone Magazine, as well as a Rising Star by both BBC Music Magazine and Classic FM.
Other recent highlights include recordings of chamber music by Boccherini with Steven Isserlis, of Cipriani Potter’s Concertante with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Peteris Vasks’ Plainscapes with Candida Thompson and The Netherlands Chamber Choir.
As a chamber musician, Tim plays in various ensembles and in 2010 founded The Teyber Trio with violinist, Tim Crawford and violist, Timothy Ridout, with whom he continues to perform internationally. He has performed at chamber music festivals including the Classiche Forme, Hindsgavl, IMS Prussia Cove (Open Chamber Music), Molyvos International Music Festival, Kronberg Chamber Music Connects the World, Musikdorf Ernen and Cheltenham festivals. As a chamber musician he has collaborated with musicians such as Steven Isserlis, Sir Andras Schiff, Gidon Kremer, Lars Vogt, Emmanuel Pahud and Beatrice Rana and as a guest in ‘Wigmore Soloists’.
Tim is principal cellist of Amsterdam Sinfonietta.
Charlotte Scott
Katya Apekisheva
Charlotte Scott
Described by the Strad Magazine as "Musically compelling and deeply poetic playing" Charlotte enjoys a varied career as a soloist, director and chamber musician. Her critically acclaimed discography includes recordings for LINN Records, Decca, Apple Music, Classical Label and Champs Hill.
Passionate about directing, Charlotte regularly p
Described by the Strad Magazine as "Musically compelling and deeply poetic playing" Charlotte enjoys a varied career as a soloist, director and chamber musician. Her critically acclaimed discography includes recordings for LINN Records, Decca, Apple Music, Classical Label and Champs Hill.
Passionate about directing, Charlotte regularly performs with many chamber orchestras worldwide, including the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Musica Vitae, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester and Nederlands Chamber Orchestra, leading with dynamic programmes as a soloist, director or concertmaster. In recent seasons she has taken part in various live broadcasts from Wigmore Hall and the BBC Proms.
As a soloist and chamber player, recent highlights include frequent performances in venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw, Purcell Room, Sheldonian Theatre and The Festival Hall. Additionally, she is invited as part an array of summer festivals including the North York Moors Chamber Music Festival, New Paths Chamber Festival, York Chamber Festival and Zermatt Festival.
Charlotte regularly gives performance classes and masterclasses at the Royal Academy of Music in London and at Oxford University and has a great interest in exploring and helping others with performance practice from a variety of different approaches. Influencing the art in which she teaches and performs, these approaches are naturally integrated into the relationships with colleagues and in her performances.
Currently first violinist and co-founder of the Oculi Ensemble - a group which was created as the next iteration of the former Badke Quartet. The Oculi Ensemble is made up of a circle of world class string string quartet artists, and forms a larger, flexible ensemble that received high critical acclaim globally for their release of Metamorphosen- Strauss Chamber Works:
“Vitality abounds ... the Oculi players’ fastidiousness with dynamics and tonal range held me throughout.” BBC Music (Magazine, UK) David Nice (*****).
“This is a recording that all who love not only Strauss’s instrumental music but the sumptuousness of late- Romantic chamber music will find eminently rewarding and irresistible." Gramophone (Magazine, UK) Jeremy Dribble, April 2021.
Between 2006-2013, Charlotte dedicated her life as the first violinist of the award winning Piatti Quartet, performing internationally and making regular appearances on BBC Radio 3, as well as various further live television and radio broadcasts. The quartet won numerous international prizes and in 2012 was nominated for a prestigious Royal Philharmonic Award, equally reflected in their distinguished discography.
Charlotte grew up in England where she studied with Mateja Marinković at Wells Cathedral School and later at the Royal Academy of Music, where she won the Franstein Violin Prize. She went on to study in Boston at the New England Conservatory with Eric Rosenblith, James Buswell and Donald Weilerstein.
For three years, Charlotte was awarded a scholarship to attend IMS Prussia Cove to perform in concerts and masterclasses with Ida Haendl, Ferenc Rados and Valeria Szervánszky. Further masterclasses include those given by Mauricio Fuks, Thomas Brandis, Sylvia Rosenberg, Zvi Zeitlin, Tibor Varga, Alexander Pavlovic. As a quartet player she studied with Gunter Pichler for an intensive two years at the Escuala de Musica Reina Sofia and also with Rainer Smidt for three years at Pro Quartet-France.
Charlotte plays on a violin by Antonio Stradivarius, 1685 “Gagliano”
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Katya Apekisheva
DESCRIBED AS A 'PROFOUNDLY GIFTED ARTIST' BY GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE, KATYA APEKISHEVA HAS EARNED HER PLACE AS ONE OF EUROPE'S MOST RENOWNED AND GIFTED PIANISTS
Bom in Moscow, into a family of musicians, she attended the Gnessin Music School for exceptionally gifted children making her stage debut at the age of 12. She continued her studies in Jerusalem at the Rubin Music Academy and later at the Royal College of Music in London. From these auspicious beginnings she went on to be a Prizewinner of the Leeds International Piano competition and has gone on to enjoy a career performing with many of the world's leading orchestras, including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Halle Orchestra, the Moscow Philharmonic, the Jerusalem Symphony, the English Chamber Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, working with renowned conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, David Shallon, Jan Latham-Koenig and Alexander Lazarev.
HER LATEST DISC IS A COLLECTION OF IMPROMPTUS OF WHICH INTERNATIONAL
PIANO CALLED 'A FASCINATING AND
ENGROSSING ALBUM'.
As a recording artist, Katya has received widespread critical acclaim for her interpretations from Gramophone Magazine's Editor's Choice award and International Piano Magazine's Critics' choice to Classic FM's CD of the week as well as a Classical Brit award to name but a few. Katya's discography includes solo and chamber works by Mussorgsky.
Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Dvorak and Rachmaninov.
Recent and future highlights include performances in Russia, Norway, Japan, Switzerland, Italy, Denmark, Germany, Australia and at home in the UK at the Bath Mozart Fest, St. George's Bristol and the prestigious Wigmore Hall - where she is a regular presence.
Her intense artistry and delicacy makes Katya a most sought after collaborative pianist, working with artists such as Janine Jansen, Natalie Clein, Guy Johnston, Maxim Rysanov, Jack Liebeck, Boris Brovtsyn, Alexei Ogrinchouk and Nicholas Daniel and she appears regularly at major chamber music festivals around the world. Katya also has a highly successful and personally rewarding piano duo partnership with Charles Owen, performing regularly at festivals worldwide. Together they are co-Artistic Directors of the London Piano Festival which began in 2016.
Tim Posner
Praised by Charlotte Gardner (Gramophone Magazine) for ‘tremendous tonal beauty across his cello’s range, making it sing with hugely attractive mellow, melancholic passion’ and by Geoff Brown (The Times) for ‘technical excellence hand in hand with open emotion’, Tim Posner was the winner of the Thierry Scherz Prize at Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad 2023. He was also the first British cellist to have been awarded a prize at the International Karl Davidov Competition. Born in 1995, Tim has performed as soloist with orchestras including the NDR Radiophilharmonie, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Mozart Players with conductors such as Andrew Manze.
Tim recently made his debut concerto CD with the Bern Symphony Orchestra, recording works by Bloch, Bruch and Dohnanyi, which has received much critical acclaim. Michel Stockhem (Clic Musique) wrote ‘This new version could establish itself as a modern reference’ and Graham Rickson (The Arts Desk) described him as ‘magnificent throughout’. It was selected by The Strad as part of its ‘The Strad Recommends’ reviews and he has recently been made the ‘One to Watch’ feature in Gramaphone Magazine, as well as a Rising Star by both BBC Music Magazine and Classic FM.
Other recent highlights include recordings of chamber music by Boccherini with Steven Isserlis, of Cipriani Potter’s Concertante with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Peteris Vasks’ Plainscapes with Candida Thompson and The Netherlands Chamber Choir.
As a chamber musician, Tim plays in various ensembles and in 2010 founded The Teyber Trio with violinist, Tim Crawford and violist, Timothy Ridout, with whom he continues to perform internationally. He has performed at chamber music festivals including the Classiche Forme, Hindsgavl, IMS Prussia Cove (Open Chamber Music), Molyvos International Music Festival, Kronberg Chamber Music Connects the World, Musikdorf Ernen and Cheltenham festivals. As a chamber musician he has collaborated with musicians such as Steven Isserlis, Sir Andras Schiff, Gidon Kremer, Lars Vogt, Emmanuel Pahud and Beatrice Rana and as a guest in ‘Wigmore Soloists’.
Tim is principal cellist of Amsterdam Sinfonietta.
CHARLOTTE SCOTT
Described by the Strad Magazine as "Musically compelling and deeply poetic playing" Charlotte enjoys a varied career as a soloist, director and chamber musician. Her critically acclaimed discography includes recordings for LINN Records, Decca, Apple Music, Classical Label and Champs Hill.
Passionate about directing, Charlotte regularly performs with many chamber orchestras worldwide, including the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Musica Vitae, and Nederlands Chamber Orchestra, leading with dynamic programmes as a soloist, director or concertmaster. In recent seasons she has taken part in various live broadcasts from Wigmore Hall and the BBC Proms.
As a soloist and chamber player, recent highlights include frequent performances in venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw, Purcell Room, Sheldonian Theatre and The Festival Hall. Additionally, she is invited as part an array of summer festivals including the North York Moors Chamber Music Festival, New Paths Chamber Festival, York Chamber Festival and Zermatt Festival.
Charlotte regularly gives performance classes and masterclasses at the Royal Academy of Music in London and at Oxford University and has a great interest in exploring and helping others with performance practice from a variety of different approaches. Influencing the art in which she teaches and performs, these approaches are naturally integrated into the relationships with colleagues and in her performances.
Currently first violinist and co-founder of the Oculi Ensemble - a group which was created as the next iteration of the former Badke Quartet. The Oculi Ensemble is made up of a circle of world class string string quartet artists, and forms a larger, flexible ensemble that received high critical acclaim globally for their release of Metamorphosen- Strauss Chamber Works:
“Vitality abounds ... the Oculi players’ fastidiousness with dynamics and tonal range held me throughout.” BBC Music (Magazine, UK) David Nice (*****).
“This is a recording that all who love not only Strauss’s instrumental music but the sumptuousness of late- Romantic chamber music will find eminently rewarding and irresistible." Gramophone (Magazine, UK) Jeremy Dribble, April 2021.
Between 2006-2013, Charlotte dedicated her life as the first violinist of the award winning Piatti Quartet, performing internationally and making regular appearances on BBC Radio 3, as well as various further live television and radio broadcasts. The quartet won numerous international prizes and in 2012 was nominated for a prestigious Royal Philharmonic Award, equally reflected in their distinguished discography.
Charlotte grew up in England where she studied with Mateja Marinković at Wells Cathedral School and later at the Royal Academy of Music, where she won the Franstein Violin Prize. She went on to study in Boston at the New England Conservatory with Eric Rosenblith, James Buswell and Donald Weilerstein.
For three years, Charlotte was awarded a scholarship to attend IMS Prussia Cove to perform in concerts and masterclasses with Ida Haendl, Ferenc Rados and Valeria Szervánszky. Further masterclasses include those given by Mauricio Fuks, Thomas Brandis, Sylvia Rosenberg, Zvi Zeitlin, Tibor Varga, Alexander Pavlovic. As a quartet player she studied with Gunter Pichler for an intensive two years at the Escuala de Musica Reina Sofia and also with Rainer Smidt for three years at Pro Quartet-France.
Charlotte plays on a violin by Antonio Stradivarius, 1685 “Gagliano”