The Year in statistics......

It's a useful exercise assessing a year's work from an objective point of view. If, like me, you perform for a living you will know that that old motto "you are only as good as your last concert" might be true but it has little bearing on the number of dates that are in your diary at the beginning of each year. The past year has, at it happens, been around my average for the number of concerts and much better than average   for  studio  recordings   (and whatever  people are  saying  about the apparently desperate state of classical music, CDs are still being produced in large quantities!)

Concerts - 45
Recordings - 7
Arrangements - 20
Adjudications - 3
New larger works added to repertoire - 20
Dozens of new smaller works
As well as my regular partners I also worked (either as performer or arranger) with the following for the first time (and hopefully not the last!) this year.....

Raphaël Mouterde (producer)
Nick Korth (Principal Horn in BBCSO)
Richard Harvey (composer)
Alisa Weilerstein (Cello)
Tim Jackson (Principal Horn in RLPO)
Joseph Calleja (Tenor)
Christian Poltera (Cello)
Michael Ponder (producer)
Robert Max (Cello)
Victor Reyes (composer)
Stéphane Tétreault (Cello)
Stephanie Marshall (Mezzo-Soprano)
Nobuko Imai (Viola)
Frans Helmerson (Cello)
Yuja Wang (piano)
Leonidas Kavakos (Violin)

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