A lively violin performance to begin the new year
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Getting the New Year off to an impressive start for music fans, Madeleine Mitchell in Recital, will be presented by the Chamber Music Society of Colombo on January 22 at 5 p.m. at the Russian Cultural Centre, Colombo. Described by The Times, UK, as ‘one of Britain’s liveliest musical forces (and) foremost violinists’, Mitchell has performed in some 50 countries as a soloist and chamber musician.
Her engagements in 2015/16 included Elgar Violin Concerto in Russia, recitals in Singapore, Wigmore and Barbican Halls London, BBC Radio 3, Schoenberg Center Vienna and Moscow and a major tour of the USA.
Madeleine Mitchell has performed violin concertos with orchestras including the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Czech and Polish Radio Symphony, Wurttemberg and Munich Chamber, the Royal Philharmonic and other London orchestras, Orchestra de Bahia Brazil and for the BBC. For the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee she returned to the Bath International Festival as soloist in the ‘Great Brits’ programme in Vaughan Williams ‘The Lark Ascending’, which she also performed as Canberra International Music Festival Artist-in-Residence.
Mitchell’s acclaimed discography for which she has been nominated for Grammy and BBC Music Awards, includes ‘In Sunlight: Pieces for Madeleine Mitchell’ by MacMillan, Nyman and other well known UK composers, ‘FiddleSticks’ – Lou Harrison Violin Concerto with Percussion Orchestra and new companion pieces (which she performed in Symphony Hall International Series); ‘Violin Songs’ – Classic FM’s CD of the week, ‘British Treasures’ – early 20th century romantic violin sonatas, two albums for Naxos of music by Alwyn and Howard Blake (with the composer as pianist), Hummel violin sonatas, Bridge chamber music and the widely recommended Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time with Joanna MacGregor. Her Linn recording of MacMillan Motet with solo violin and choir was BBC Music’s CD of the Month. Plans for her next album of unrecorded works by established British composers are well advanced.
A highly creative personality, she devised the Red Violin festival under Lord Menuhin’s patronage, the first international eclectic celebration of the fiddle across the arts, held throughout Cardiff for which she was shortlisted for the European Women of Achievement and Creative Briton Awards. She is also Director of the London Chamber Ensemble, a long-standing flexible group including the UK’s outstanding chamber musicians.
Unreserved tickets for her recital are available priced at Rs. 2000 each, at The Autodrome PLC, 304 Union Place, Colombo 2 and the Barefoot Gallery, Colombo 4.
The performance is sponsored by Fairway Holdings.