Ashok Klouda (cello) Winner of the 2009 Tunnell Trust concert award scheme, Ashok Klouda made his solo Wigmore Hall debut in January this year as a result of jointly winning the first Worshipful Company of Musicians / Concordia Foundation Young Artists Fund award. Other recent competition successes include 1st prize in the 2006 J. & A. Beare […]

A new chamber ensemble for Aberdeenshire The Heller String Quartet was formed in 1976 when four musicians at the Royal College of Music in London who won several major prizes for individual performance and quartet playing were invited by the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation to become the quartet-in-residence in Bermuda. They took their name after winning […]

  Madeleine Mitchell is one of the UK’s foremost violinists and one of Britain’s liveliest musical forces (The Times). She has performed in over 40 countries as a soloist in a wide repertoire in major venues and frequently broadcasts for television and radio including the BBC Proms and ABC (Australia). She was described by the Chief Music Critic of the […]

Tom Poulson (trumpet) Mandy Murphy (trumpet) Sam McShane (horn) Gordon Seith (trombone) Fraser Russell (tuba) Award winning Pure Brass is a vibrant, young and well established brass quintet, which performs regularly to critical acclaim. Formed in 2006 at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, the group has quickly become a prominent ensemble within the Scottish […]