|
|
Mark Levy Appearances in the past couple of seasons have included solo and chamber recitals at the Bruges Festival, the Wigmore Hall, t he Covent Garden Festival, the Spitalfields Festival, the Bath Festival, the York Early Music Festival, the Leipzig Bach Festival, the Innsbruck Festival, the Handel House in Halle, and for the Dutch Early Music Network, and concert tours have taken him to Belgium, Holland, France, Spain, Greece, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Iceland, while recent broadcasts have included concerts for the BBC, Belgian and German Radio. Mark has recorded for Decca, DG, Harmonia Mundi, Hyperion and most of the smaller British labels, recently completing a complete Gibbons series with Concordia for the prize-winning Metronome label. The first disc in the series won several awards including the Choc de Musique from Le Monde de la Musique (France), an Outstanding rating from BBC Music Magazine, and an award Þfrom Fonoforum (Germany), while the second CD received the Diapason dOr (France) and was an Editors Choice in Gramophone magazine. During the Bach 2000 festivities he appeared with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the English Chamber Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall and Symphony Hall in Birmingham and other work outside the world of early music has included contributions to the soundtracks of movies such as The Governess, Titus and The Knights Tale. His hands were apparently visible in the recent BBC TV adaptation of the bestselling The Other Boleyn Girl. In 2000-1 Mark was a guest Lecturer at Southampton University, and he has also taught at Nottingham University, at the Dartington International Summer Schoo l, and on courses in Israel and Poland. Mark was artistic director of the Wigmore Halls William Lawes 400th anniversary concert series in 2002, and their 2003 series celebrating The Elizabethans. He is a frequent guest on BBC Radio, most recently contributing to programmes on the painter Titian and on the music of Elizabeth Is court, and he also appeared in a two-part BBC TV series on Lawes. He devotes a part of his time to researching and editing 16th- and 17th-century music. His edition of the complete Songs of Matthew Locke was published in 1996 by Stainer and Bell, and he is frequently invited to write feature articles and reviews for BBC Music Magazine, Classical Music, Early Music, Music Teacher, The Strad, etc.
Ashley Solomon Born in Sussex, Ashley won a recorder and flute scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music where he was awarded first class honours. He went on to complete his post-graduate studies there with a scholarship from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and in the same year won first prize in the Moeck International Recorder Competition. The majority of his time is spent performing with Florilegium, the ensemble that he co-founded in 1991 and of which he is now the Artistic Director. Florilegium has made fourteen and regularly performs at prestigious UK and international music festivals and venues. In 1998 he was made an Honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music and this was followed in 2000 with an Honorary RCM. Much in demand as a teacher he has been professor at the Royal College of Music since 1994 and given master classes in Australia, The Americas, The Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Portugal and the UK.
Jonathan Tilbrook | |