Applications available for Summer 2010
Information and applications are now available for the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival - Yale School of Music’s summer 2010 sessions. Applications are now being accepted for the New Music Workshop (June 18 - 26), Chamber Music Session (July 4 - August 15) and Chamber Choir and Choral Conducting Workshop (August15 - 22). Please visit our website for more information.
Luisa Rosina shares her summer musical experiece at Norfolk
As I write this blog it is the final days of the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and I will soon be flying back to London. I cannot believe how quickly 6 weeks can pass. I have had a wonderful experience which will certainly stay with me forever.
In November 2008 I auditioned in London for an English Speaking Union (ESU) Scholarship. Each year the ESU award scholarships to musicians in the UK wanting to take part in a prestigious music festival. As I expressed a strong interest in chamber music in my audition, I was delighted to accept a place at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival.
After receiving the news that I was coming to Norfolk this year, I immediately started investigating the festival on the internet. Yale has a fantastic reputation in the UK so I knew I was onto something good, but when seeing the familiar names of the faculty members I was so excited to be coming here. (more…)
The Tokyo Quartet’s Clive Greensmith on the first week of coachings
Clive Greensmith, cellist, joined the Tokyo String Quartet in June 1999. A graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music and the Musikhochschule in Cologne, his principal teachers were Donald McCall and Boris Pergamenschikow. He has held the position of principal cellist of London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. As a soloist, he has appeared with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic, English Chamber Orchestra, Mostly Mozart Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic, and the RAI Orchestra of Rome. He has collaborated with distinguished musicians such as András Schiff, Midori, Claude Frank and Steven Isserlis, and has won several prizes including second place in the inaugural Premio Stradivari held in Cremona, Italy. Mr. Greensmith has served on the faculties of the Royal Northern College of Music, Yehudi Menuhin School and San Francisco Conservatory of Music and is currently on the faculty of New York University. Mr. Greensmith’s recording of Brahms’ Sonatas with Boris Berman performing on Norfolk’s Bechstein piano from 1860 was recently released on the Biddulph label.
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Week one in Norfolk confirmed that this is going to be another superb vintage. Following an engaging week of teaching with four remarkably fine groups, we all felt a pang of regret as we headed to Japan straight after our first performance in the Shed on Friday July 10th. (more…)
The Tokyo String Quartet Sends a Postcard from Australia
Clive Greensmith, cellist with the Tokyo string Quartet, sends a note and a few photos to us from the Quartet’s Australian tour.
Clive Greensmith, cellist, joined the Tokyo String Quartet in June 1999. A graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music and the Musikhochschule in Cologne, his principal teachers were Donald McCall and Boris Pergamenschikow. He has held the position of principal cellist of London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. As a soloist, he has appeared with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic, English Chamber Orchestra, Mostly Mozart Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic, and the RAI Orchestra of Rome. He has collaborated with distinguished musicians such as András Schiff, Midori, Claude Frank and Steven Isserlis, and has won several prizes including second place in the inaugural Premio Stradivari held in Cremona, Italy. Mr. Greensmith has served on the faculties of the Royal Northern College of Music, Yehudi Menuhin School and San Francisco Conservatory of Music and is currently on the faculty of New York University. Mr. Greensmith’s recording of Brahms’ Sonatas with Boris Berman was recently released on the Biddulph label.
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Flying into wellington New Zealand
Here’s a little update from our Australian tour for the Norfolk blog:
We are now almost at then end of our Antipodean travels with a final concert tonight in Perth Concert Hall. Leaving home on June 1st is a very distant memory, made all the more obscure by some dauntingly long flights, the vastness of the Pacific Ocean, and three weeks of traveling that has taken us to some of the most beautiful parts of Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand. In the strikingly elegant surroundings of Auckland’s town hall, our tour got off to a good start with a program of quartets by Haydn and Brahms. Jet lag aside, it was a pleasure being back in such a beautiful country and we found audiences in both Auckland and Wellington very appreciative and enthusiastic. Perhaps because of its remoteness, New Zealanders strike me as being extraordinarily hospitable and appreciative. Indeed, they seem to approach the quartet medium with a particular reverence. (more…)
