Simply Strad

On Sunday 3rd November at 7.00 there is a very special concert to be held in the Duke's Hall at the Royal Academy of Music. To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the London Cello Society,there will be a gathering of some of the world’s greatest Stradivari cellos and an amazing bunch of cellists to play them.  During the evening Charles Beare will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by the LCS Artistic Adviser Steven Isserlis and I will be accompanying the following players in a variety of short pieces to show off these magnificent instruments. The concert finishes with some arrangements for all cellos together. (See the full programme here).


Christian Poltéra, the ‘Mara’ (1711)
Danjulo Ishizaka, the ‘Lord Aylesford’ (1696)
Raphael Wallfisch, the ‘Archinto’ (1689)
Julian Lloyd-Webber, the ‘Barjansky’ (1690)
Paul Silverthorne, the ‘Archinto’ viola (1696)
Robert Max, the ‘Saveuse’ (1726)
Stéphane Tétreault the  ‘Countess of Stanlein’ (1707)

This will be my second concert that same day as at 3.00 I will be playing piano quartets by Mozart, Brahms and Stanford at St. John's Smith Square with the London Soloists Ensemble!

More details are here......                             http://www.londonsoloistsensemble.co.uk/diary.html