Thursday 2 November 2.00 pm
Madeleine Mitchell (violin)
Nigel Clayton (piano)
Brahms: Violin sonata in D minor Op 108 (21')
Allegro / Adagio / Poco presto / Presto
Franck : Violin sonata in A (28')
Allegretto / Allegro / Moderato / Allegretto
Madeleine Mitchell has been described by The Times as ‘ one of the UK's liveliest musical forces (and) foremost violinists' . She's performed as solo violinist and chamber musician in 50 countries in a wide repertoire, frequently broadcast for radio and TV, in festivals including the BBC Proms. She recently recorded live with the BBCNOW Grace Williams Violin Concerto for BBC Radio 3 and Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending. In 2022 she won a Royal Philharmonic Society Enterprise Award to make a film which she introduces from the V&A during their Fabergé exhibition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_ChAdTj4xA . Madeleine Mitchell has performed concertos with the Czech and Polish Radio Symphony orchestras, Wurttemberg and Munich Chamber, Kiev Radio/TV, the Royal Philharmonic and other London orchestras, She was invited to tour Japan, performing Bruch Violin Concerto in Tokyo. As a recording artist with a wide discography, Madeleine has been nominated for Grammy and BBC Music Awards including her unique collaboration with percussion, FiddleSticks . Mitchell's Naxos album of Grace Williams Chamber Music with the London Chamber Ensemble entered the Classical Charts at no.2. Many well known composers have written works for her including her latest album Violin Conversations which has been widely praised. In recital Madeleine Mitchell represented Britain in the festival UKinNY at Lincoln Center, for the Queen's Jubilee in Rome and the St Petersburg Festival of British music. She has given recitals at Sydney Opera House, Seoul Center for the Arts, Vienna, London's Southbank Centre as well as Wigmore Hall and Singapore with Nigel. She's frequently toured the USA and returned this year
Nigel Clayton studied with Stephen Savage and Angus Morrison at the Royal College of Music, London, where he won prizes in every category of piano performance and was awarded the College's yearly prize for his Bachelor of Music Degree. Whilst there, a particular interest in chamber music and accompanying developed and was further encouraged by international prizes from competitions in London, New York (Concert Artists Guild) and from the English Speaking Union. Since then his worldwide travel has included four major tours of India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan with the Indian cellist Anup Kumar Biswas, tours of the Middle East and America with Wissam Boustany, of Scandinavia with Gerard LeFeuvre and throughout every European country. He performs more than eighty concerts every season and has also played at most of the music clubs and festivals in his native Great Britain, appearing regularly on the BBC's radio network, at the Wigmore Hall and at the South Bank Centre, where he has already performed over fifty recitals. His most recent concerts have been in Taiwan and Japan, his first time to tour in the Far East.He teaches at a school for young pianists in Surrey, is visiting professor of piano at the North East of Scotland Music School and was recently appointed Professor of Piano at the Royal College of Music, London.
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