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Honeymead Ensemble presents an evening of Ravel, Beethoven, and Schubert - Hatherleigh Community Centre - Friday 11th April 2008.
Featuring Tamsin Waley-Cohen “The most exceptionally gifted young
violinist I have ever encountered” (Ruggiero Ricci) plays at Hatherleigh
Community Hall.
A concert in aid of ELF on Friday 11 April at the Hatherleigh Community Centre at 7.30 p.m. features the
Honeymead Ensemble which was created by Tamsin Waley-Cohen and Eyal Kless, who act as joint artistic
directors. It brings together a group of young professional musicians to live and work together for a week of
intense musical participation and preparation. They are based for the week at Honeymead, Tamsin's family
farm, in the centre of Exmoor.
The Honeymead Ensemble will play the Ravel Sonata for violin and Cello, Beethoven’s Trio in C minor Op. 1,
no 3 and the Schubert ‘Cello’ Quintet in C major. Tickets cost £12.50 and are available for the ELF Office on
01392 493344. Bar facilities before the performance and in the Interval.
The 2008 Honeymead Ensemble season is the second consecutive year of what is intended to be an annual
Festival of chamber music. It provides the musicians with an exceptional opportunity to study and explore in
depth outstanding works in the chamber music repertoire while
away from outside pressures. The week is supported by
Honeymead Arts Trust.
Tamsin and Eyal are delighted that Adrian Brendel has returned to
play with them for a second year, and to welcome Guy Ben-Ziony
and John Myerscough.
Tamsin Waley-Cohen played at Chagford in the very first Two
Moors Festival, and has performed for them several times since
then, including a recital at Dunster Church in 2005, and the
Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Orchestra of The Swan in
Tavistock to open the 2006 Festival. She gave a 2006 recital at the
Adie's barn in Barkham ("The Wigmore Hall of the West
Country"), and in 2008 at the Queen's Theatre, Barnstaple."
Tamsin Waley-Cohen performs with the Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra, the Orchestra of St John's, the London Concert Orchestra and Chamber Orchestras, and under such conductors as
Andrew Litton, Jose Serebrier, Shlomo Mintz, Nicholas Cleobury,
John Lubbock and Robert Max. She has played at Wigmore Hall,
Cadogan Hall, Symphony Hall Birmingham, Queen Elizabeth Hall
and in venues across England, Scotland, Italy and Israel.
In demand as a recitalist, her partners include pianists Gary Matthewman and Gregorio Nardi. A versatile
musician, her repertoire ranges from baroque through to contemporary music. She is also an avid chamber
musician which has led to her forming the Honeymead Ensemble, based at her family home on Exmoor, which
in its first two years (2007 and 2008) will have included Adrian Brendel, Guy Ben-Zioni, Eyal Kless, Leon
McCauley, John Myerscough and Jon Thorne. She has participated in festivals, including Cheltenham,
Academia San Felice, Piandellagotti, The Red Violin, and The Two Moors.
Tamsin was born in London in 1986. She became a Foundation Scholar at the Royal College of Music where
she won numerous RCM awards, including the concerto competition, Ian Stoutzker Prize, and was their String
Player of the year. At the RCM her Professor was Itzhak Rashkovsky. Other competition successes include
being a BBC Young Musician of the Year strings finalist, a laureate at Kloster Schontal and
Sion, and winning the 2005 Royal Overseas League Strings prize, and the J & A Beare Solo Bach prize in 2007.
Plans for 2008 include concerto performances at the Barbican, London and Bridgewater Hall, Manchester; in
Italy at Florence and Lucca; opening the St Jude's Proms in London with the London Chamber
Orchestra; return performances of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, as
well as the Honeymead and Tuscany chamber music festivals and recitals throughout the UK.
Tamsin has been a regular participant at the International Musicians' Seminar at Prussia Cove since she was 16,
where she has worked with distinguished musicians including Lorand Fenyves, Andras Keller, Martin Lovett,
Mark Padmore and Gerhard Schulz. She has also participated in master classes given by Ida Haendel, Igor
Ozim,and Ruggiero Ricci, the latter describing her as "the most exceptionally gifted young violinist I have ever
encountered."
Since early 2007 she has played the 1721 ex-Fenyves Stradivarius violin.
Eyal Kless has performed and taught violin all over the world; born in Israel, he is now professor at the Royal
Northern College of Music in Manchester. He is co-founder, with Tamsin, of the Honeymead Ensemble.
Guy Ben –Zioni is Professor of viola and chamber music in Leipzig. He has played as a soloist with many
European and Israeli orchestras, and in venues including Wignore Hall in London, Berlin Konzerthaus and New
York’s Carnegie Hall.
Adrian Brendel has established himself as one of the leading cellists of his generation, performing extensively
as a soloist and in chamber music. In partnership with his father, Alfre Brendel, he has performed all of
Beethoven’s music for cello and piano with great public and critical success.
John Myerscough was overall winner in 2006 of the Royal Overseas Legue competition, and the Beethoven
Piano Society of Europe cello Prize and the Prince of Wales Award. He is a member of the successful Doric
Quartet, which is performing to acclaim at Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall and elsewhere.
The ensemble season is supported by Honeymead Arts Trust, whose own fund-raising enables it to meet the
cost of the musicians being together for the week, so that the proceeds of the tickets sold for the three concerts
they perform at the end of their week goes entirely for the benefit of good causes in Devon and Somerset. In
2008 these concerts are in Taunton, Hatherleigh and Dunster, and are organised by and to provide support
for: St Margaret's Hospice, Taunton; the Exeter Leukaemia Fund; Devon & Somerset Hunt Club and the Air
Ambulance.
Honeymead Arts Trust also makes donations to other music charities including the Two Moors Festival
(classical music on Exmoor and Dartmoor); London String Quartet Foundation; International Musicians'
Seminar, Prussia Cove; Royal College of Music; and theatre charities including Mousetrap Theatre Projects
(visits to West End theatres for young people who would not otherwise have the opportunity); and
the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).
Ring us on 01392 493344 for further details.