WITNEY MUSIC SOCIETY - JANUARY 2012 CONCERT

The Countess of Munster

Musical Trust Concert

TIM LOWE - 'CELLO

JAMES BAILLIEU - PIANO

C. SAINT-SAЁNS              Sonata in C minor, Op 32
L. V. BEETHOVEN                  Sonata no 4 in C major, Op. 102 no. 1 ANTONIN DVORÁK            'Romance' opus 75 no 4
JOHANNES BRAHMS             F major sonata

Tim Lowe was born in 1986 and began playing the cello at the age of 5. He was a major music scholar at Eton College and now studies with Louise Hopkins at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Tim has won many awards and prizes including those from the Musicians Benevolent Fund, the Craxton Memorial Trust, Philharmonia Orchestra/Martin Musical Scholarship Fund, Countess of Munster Trust, ECO Duchess of Cornwall Award, Jacqueline du Pre scholarship supported by the Leverhulme Trust and many more. Tim has recently won the Maisie Lewis award from the Worshipful Company of Musicians.

As a chamber musician Tim has performed in many major venues including the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall and St John’s Smith Square. His 2010/11 season included performances of the Dvorak and Schumann concertos and a very full recital schedule with some of the concerts supported by the Countess of Munster recital scheme which will take him right around the country and includes solo Wigmore Hall appearances.
Tim is regularly asked to be Guest Principal cello with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
Tim is also the holder of the prestigious Silver Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians.

Tim has been appointed as a professor of cello at the senior Guidhall School of Music and Drama. Since September 2011 he has been Cello tutor at the Junior Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Described by The Daily Telegraph as ‘in a class of his own’ James Baillieu has been the prize-winner of the Wigmore Hall Song Competition, Das Lied International Song Competition (in both 2009 & 2011), Kathleen Ferrier and Richard Tauber Competitions. He was selected for representation by Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) in 2010.

Over the last year James has recorded for BBC Radio 3 with the Elias Quartet, Allan Clayton and Ben Johnson. He has given solo and chamber recitals throughout Europe and further afield, collaborating with singers Jared Holt, Gerard Collett, Sir Thomas Allen, Mark Padmore, Pumeza Matshikiza, Katherine Broderick, Marcus Farnsworth, Martene Grimson, Jacques Imbrailo, Sarah-Jane Brandon and Kishani Jayasinghe. Festivals and venues have included Wigmore Hall, Bridgewater Hall, National Concert Hall Dublin, Festpillene i Bergen, the City of London, Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Aix-en-Provence, Derry and Norfolk & Norwich Festivals.

During 2011 James gave several performances of Brahms’s Piano Quintet with the Heath Quartet including Spitalfields and Music in Paxton Festivals, and attended the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove working with Gerhard Schulz. Engagements this season include a concert with Annette Dasch at the Berlin Konzerthaus; recitals at Wigmore Hall including Schubert’s Schwanengesang with Ben Johnson broadcast by BBC Radio 3, and collaborations with flautist Adam Walker, cellist Timothy Lowe, mezzos Kathryn Rudge and Helen Sherman; and solo recitals in the Nottingham International and Leeds International Series. In 2012 James records with Adam Walker for Sonimage.

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