Musicians for Peace
The van Walsum & Morton/Gould families in association with
Friends of Refugees Suffolk & Woodbridge School
Present a String Quartet Concert
THE OLD CHAPEL,
CHAPEL STREET,
WOODBRIDGE, IP12 4NF
Tuesday 22nd March 2022
FEATURING
Four outstanding musicians, Clio Gould and Jon Morton, violin,
Becky Low, viola and Clare O’Connell, cello
DATE
Tuesday 22nd March 2022
PERFORMANCES
1st – 18.00 for 18.30
2nd – 20.00 for 20.30
Tickets include a glass of wine or soft drink with canapes
Clio Gould enjoys variety in her career as a violinist and performs as soloist , chamber musician, director and concertmaster internationally and at home in the UK.
She has held major and longstanding positions as Concertmaster of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra , Principal Violin of the London Sinfonietta and as Artistic Director of Scottish Ensemble , directing from the violin.
Clio has appeared as concerto soloist with most of the UK’s major orchestras covering a wide-ranging repertoire. Known as one of Britain’s foremost interpreters of contemporary violin music, she has been given the opportunity to work with many of today’s leading composers. Highlights include performances at the Royal Festival Hall of Pierre Boulez’s epic work for solo violin and live electronics, Anthemes 2 for the composer’s 85 th birthday celebrations .
She has also worked closely with Oliver Knussen , giving many performances in Sweden, Japan, Finland and Hungary of the Knussen Violin Concerto , conducted by the composer. She gave the UK premiere of this work at the Aldeburgh Festival with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Clio regularly contributes to film and TV soundtracks at Abbey Road Studios and Air Lyndhurst Stydios , where she frequently leads studio orchestras. She plays with the Colin Currie Group in Europe and Japan .
Clio is honoured to play the Rutson Stradivarius of 1694 which has been generously loaned to her by the Royal Academy of Music. She teaches there, and directs the Sainsbury Royal Academy Soloists. She has been awarded Honorary Membership of the Academy .
Jonathan Morton is a musician equally at home in old and new music who enjoys collaborating with musicians and artists from different traditions.
He is Artistic Director at Scottish Ensemble, where his eclectic and engaging programming has been enthusiastically praised by audiences internationally, offering fresh perspectives on familiar repertoire and championing new works. Under his leadership Scottish Ensemble has been collaborating increasingly with other art forms such as dance, visual arts and theatre. Recent critically-acclaimed projects include 20th Century Perspectives with artist Toby Paterson, Goldberg Variations – ternary patterns for insomnia with Andersson Dance, and Anno with Anna Meredith and Eleanor Meredith.
Jonathan is also Principal First Violin at London Sinfonietta, where he has been given the opportunity to work closely with many of today’s leading composers and performers, including Steve Reich, Harrison Birtwistle, Mica Levi, Oliver Knussen, Marius Nesset, Jonny Greenwood, Louis Andriessen, Thurston Moore, John Woolrich, Martin Suckling and Tyondai Braxton.
Jonathan has been invited as a guest leader with groups such as BIT20 in Bergen, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia and Musikkollegium Winterhur. He is committed to sharing ideas with the next generation of string players and has directed projects at the Royal Northern College of Music, the Royal College of Music, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and the University of Auckland.
Jonathan regularly contributes to film and TV soundtracks at Abbey Road Studios and Air Lyndhurst Studios, where he leads studio orchestras for film composers including Dario Marianelli, Rael Jones, Patrick Doyle, Alex Heffes, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Christian Henson, Craig Armstrong, Joby Talbot and Laurent Eyquem.
Jonathan also plays with the Colin Currie Group in Europe and Japan.
Becky Low (viola) studied violin with Eta Cohen. Eta was a great inspiration and it was during a chamber music lesson that Becky first discovered a love for the viola, particularly as part of a string quartet. In 1988 Becky won a place at the prestigious Yehudi Menuhin School where she enjoyed a huge amount of chamber music and studied with Mauricio Fuks and Simon Rolland-Jones. Becky was also the leader of the National Youth Chamber Orchestra in 1991 .
She went on to study at The Royal Academy of Music and while she was still a student , Becky started her first professional position with the Scottish Ensemble as a viola player.
Becky enjoys a wide and varied career playing in many chamber orchestras including The Britten Sinfonia , City of London sinfonia ,The Academy of St Martin in the Field , The London Mozart Players and the London Chamber Orchestra . Becky also enjoys regular projects with The Orchestra of The Royal Opera House . She is a passionate member of The Iuventus Quartet .
Clare O’Connell, performer, arranger and curator, cellist Clare plays as a soloist and chamber musician.
Since founding her own concert series Clare’s practise has developed into a mixture of performing, writing, arranging and curating projects in which she collaborates with musicians and artists who inspire her. She is most interested in the intent behind a piece of music and finding the perfect context in which to present it.
She is also a member of visionary ensemble Lontano and the Storytellers Ensemble, a group of musicians devoted to the written word; she has a duo partnership with internationally acclaimed harpist Eleanor Turner; and is a regular collaborator with many other chamber music & chamber opera projects.
She founded and curates Behind The Mirror: her own series of intimate chamber music concerts in Berkhamsted, for which she has commissioned many new works from composers Edmund Finnis, Alex Mills, Leonardo Margutti, Luke Bedford, David Bruce, Freya Waley Cohen and Rubens Askenar, experimenting with varying instrumental line-ups, making her own arrangements of a vast array of music for unusual groups of instruments, and interweaving music poetry and storytelling to add another dimension to the concert experience.