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James Allsopp

James Allsopp is multi-instrumentalist and composer. His debut album “Fraud”, by the band of the same name, was highly critically acclaimed and he received the BBC Jazz Award for “Innovation” in 2008 and the Ronnie Scott Jazz Award for “Best Newcomer” in 2007. His music for both Fraud and his new trio The Golden Age of Steam has been featured on BBC Radio 3’s Jazz on 3 programme.

James Allsopp

Boris Andrianov

Boris Andrianov is one of the most gifted Russian musicians of his generation.

"Boris Andrianov is an extremely talented young cellist. Although his technique is superb and his general control over his instrument absolute, it is really his profound musicality and phrasing that impresses one almost immediately", Zubin Mehta

Boris Andrianov

Katya Apekisheva

Katya Apekisheva is one of the brightest rising young stars of the piano world. She has performed in major concert halls around the world with many leading orchestras and conductors.

Katya Apekisheva

Katya Apekisheva

Apollo Saxophone Quartet

The Apollo Saxophone Quartet is one of the most energetic and innovative ensembles around today. Crossing over into a wide variety of styles and genres, their performances incorporate newly commissioned works and rediscovered gems.

Apollo Saxophone Quartet

Matthew Barley

Matthew Barley is one of the most exciting musicians of his generation. Cello playing is at the centre of Matthew Barley's uniquely eclectic career, while his musical world has virtually no geographical, social or stylistic boundaries. He has performed with many of the world's most famous orchestras and musicians and is in demand in concert halls and festivals around the world.

Matthew Barley

Edward Barnwell

Born in Harrogate, Edward started playing the piano at the age of three. Aged nine, he was awarded a scholarship to the Yehudi Menuhin School, where he studied under Barbara Kerslake and Louis Kentner. Following a period studying the sciences – he has an honours degree in Physics from Durham University – he completed his musical studies at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester...

Edward Barnwell

Ksenia Bashmet

Ksenia Bashmet has appeared as a soloist throughout Europe as well as the USA, Japan and Israel and is the prize winner in many international competitions and Festivals.

Ksenia Bashmet

Ksenia Bashmet

Yuri Bashmet

The world's most-renowned viola-player, Yuri Bashmet's commitment to music and musicians is phenomenal, not only as a soloist either in concerto or in recital, but also as a chamber player. Bashmet has championed the concertante works of Bartók, Walton, Hindemith and Shostakovich. He has been the inspiration of a number of contemporary works from composers such as Alfred Schnittke, Sofia Gubaidulina, Giya Kancheli, Mark-Anthony Turnage and Alexander Raskatov. He has recorded a solo CD for ONYX Reminicences, plus Japanese concertante works by Hayashi and Takemitsu

Yuri Bashmet

Svetlana Berezhnaya

Svetlana Berzhnaya is one of Russia's most distinguished organists. She has won First Prize in the International Organ Competition and has been awarded the title "Honoured Artists of Russia." She regularly performs with many international orchestras and choirs and appears throughout Russia, Europe and the USA.

Svetlana Berezhnaya

Richard Blackford

Richard Blackford is one of Britain's most successful composers, his film scores having won many major awards and an Emmy nomination. The feature film Song For A Raggy Boy, for which he wrote the score in 2003, has won eleven awards.

Richard Blackford

Richard Blackford

Kristine Blaumane

Kristine Blaumane gives recitals and performs with orchestras such as the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Chicago Civic Orchestra, Kremerata Baltica, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Latvian National Opera Orchestra, Riga Chamber Players, Britten Sinfonia and Netherlands Wind Ensemble under conductors including Thomas Sanderling, Lev Markiz, Takuo Yuasa and Peter Oundjian. She has been a guest at major international festivals such as Lockenhaus, Gstaad, Salzburg, Verbier, Basel, Jerusalem, Cheltenham, Aldeburgh and Homecoming Festival in Moscow, and has performed chamber music with artists such as Isaac Stern, Gidon Kremer, Yo Yo Ma, Yuri Bashmet, Leiv Ove Andsnes, Bruno Giuranna, Nikolaj Znaider, Tatyana Grindenko,Oleg Maisenberg and others.

Kristine Blaumane

Kristine Blaumane

Wissam Boustany

Wissam Boustany regularly performs in festivals and with orchestra in Europe, South/North America, the Middle/Far East and Africa. He uses his extraordinary virtuosity to support his international initiative Toward Humanity which uses music as a catalyst to support humanitarian projects on an international scale.

Wissam Boustany

Marcelo Bratke

“... hints of wildness, yet with elegant construction, subtle rhythmic dislocations and shining piano colors”…”Mr. Bratke is a fine and flexible pianist, perfectly happy either to play Bach or to plunge into the popular music he set next to it...”
The New York Times

Marcelo Bratke

Marcelo Bratke

Marcelo Bratke & Rosana Lamosa

Pianist Marcelo Bratke and Soprano Rosana Lamosa are two of Brazil's most sought-after and exciting musical exports.

Marcelo has appeared at the Carnegie Hall, London's South Bank Centre and many other prestigious venues and Rosana is in constant demand by many of the world's fines opera companies.

Marcelo Bratke & Rosana Lamosa

Rob Buckland

Rob Buckland is internationally acclaimed as one of the leading Saxophonists of his generation, equally at home in the world of classical music and jazz. Appearing as concerto and recital soloist, in duos with pianist Peter Lawson and percussionist Simone Rebello, and with the Apollo Saxophone Quartet, Rob performs throughout the UK, Europe and Japan.

Rob Buckland

Canterbury Choral Society

Canterbury Choral Society, under their principal conductor Richard Cooke, is one of the UK's greatest choirs. It has a long tradition of performing some of the greatest works in the choral repertoire with many of the country's top orchestras.

Canterbury Choral Society

Conchord

Conchord is a mixed chamber ensemble, recently formed by internationally recognised young performers, including principal players from the BBC Symphony, the Royal Opera House Orchestra, the Philharmonia and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. With a line-up usually ranging from three to six artists, Conchord's repertoire spans the baroque to the contemporary, and everything in between.

Conchord

Conchord

Ilona Domnich

"A performance by Soprano Ilona Domnich will pull you in. In fact, Ilona's pure emotion as expressed through the scintillating colors of her voice never fails to captivate and leave her audience changed." Michael White, Opera Now

Ilona Domnich

Tim A. Duncan

Born in Manchester, Tim started his love of music playing Tenor Horn with the Middleton Band under Gordon Dean. In 1976 Tim joined the celebrated Besses o' th' Barn Band and with tutorship from Ifor James and Michael Purton, began playing the French Horn...

Tim A. Duncan

Paul Dunmall

For thirty years Paul Dunmall has carved out a reputation for himself and is now widely recognized as one of the most uncompromising and talented reed players on the international jazz/improvised music scene.

Paul Dunmall

Andy Findon

Since entering the music profession in 1976, Andy Findon has been involved in nearly every aspect of recording and performing. Dance bands, folk-rock, ballet, orchestral, theatre, contemporary, chamber music and more. This background and a facility on a variety of instruments has led him to become one of Londonâ€™s most versatile session musicians. On this album he combines his performances with the technology of multi-tracking (and a few welcome family and friends) to present a selection of tracks, a showcase of his diverse talents.

Andy Findon

Christian Forshaw

Christian Forshaw is a diverse musician who works in many different musical worlds. He has worked with many of today's leading composers and orchestras and his critically acclaimed new album Sanctuary has been featured on Classic FM.

Christian Forshaw

Grace Francis

Grace Francis was born in East London and attended the Yehudi Menuhin School before studying with Irina Zaritskaya at the Royal College of Music, where she was awarded the Chappell Gold Medal, the highest award for a pianist. She subsequently received a Wingate Scholarship to continue her studies with Martino Tirimo for several years. Among other prizes, she was a winner of the Negrada Piano House Heferer Award at the EPTA International Competition in Zagreb.

Grace Francis

Gould Piano Trio

One of the most acclaimed chamber ensembles to emerge from the UK in recent years, the Gould Piano trio have appeared in concert halls throughout the world. Their discs of Piano Trios by Brahms and Fuchs will appear throughout 2004-2005 on Quartz.

Gould Piano Trio

Gould Piano Trio

Gould Piano Trio

Gould Piano Trio

Dave Hassell & Andy Scott

Experimenting, exploring and creating new music for percussion and saxophone. The duo was formed in 1998. Sand Dancer is its debut CD recording and is an intimate reflection of both Dave and Andy's musical experiences. Ranging from the free improvisations of As it Happened to arrangements of jazz standards Django, My One & Only Love, and Moanin through to original compositions such as Otria, Sand Dancer and The Light That Falls, the duo display musical versatility, empathy and honesty.

Dave Hassell & Andy Scott

Elizabeth Hayes

Elizabeth Hayes is a young pianist who has appeared at all of the major venues in the UK and has achieved success in a number of international piano competitions. She is much in demand as a soloist and her much awaited disc of American piano music appears now on Quartz.

Elizabeth Hayes

David Heath

David Heath began writing music in 1975, basing his music harmonically and rhythmically on the music of John Coltrane and Miles Davis. Heath is now regarded as one of Britain's most original musical figures, the Gramophone recently writing of him "Heath has developed a voice and style that has developed into a genre of its own".

David Heath

Homecoming Woodwind Ensemble

The Homecoming Woodwind Ensemble is a group of eminent young wind players formed around the Homecoming Festival in Russia, an event dedicated to bringing back Russian musicians from abroad to perform in their home country.

The ensemble was founded in 2005 by Dmitri Bulgakov and Pavel Strugalev and their first project was the world premiere and recording of Bachâ€™s Goldberg Variations, arranged for woodwind quartet by the Russian composer Andrei Eshpai and released here on Quartz.

Homecoming Woodwind Ensemble

Yuko Inoue

Winner of the 17th Budapest International Viola Competition, Yuko Inoue has performed as soloist throughout Europe and Japan with many orchestras, including the Hungarian State Philharmonic Orchestra, the HallÃ© Orchestra and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra and with such eminent musicians as Gidon Kremer, Sir Charles Groves, Gyorgy Pauk, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Heinrich Schiff and Thomas Zehetmair.

Yuko Inoue

Instrumental

Equally at home in clubs and concert halls, Instrumental seamlessly crosses the divide between classical and dance music. 60 Buddhas is a compellingly original album featuring new works by Instrumental, Joby Talbot and Orbital.

Instrumental

Robin Ireland

Robin is especially renowned as viola player of the world-famous Lindsay String Quartet, with whom he played for twenty years until the group's decision to disband in July 2005. He is also increasingly known as a soloist and composer and his disc of Bach transcriptions (including his own transcription of the great Chaconne in D minor) has recently been released by Quartz.

Robin Ireland

Kamer...

The sensational Latvian youth choir Kamer... is the recicipient of many international prizes and awards and has worked with some of the worlds most famous artists including Yuri Bashment, Gidon Kremer, Arvo Pärt and Giya Kancheli. They have toured all over the world receiving widespread international acclaim.

Kamer...

Fiona Kimm

Fiona Kimm's beautiful mezzo soprano voice and exciting acting talent have made her one of the most distinguished singers of her generation, with an extensive and eclectic operatic, oratorio and concert repertoire from Monteverdi to the present day.

Fiona Kimm

Junko Kobayashi

The versatile and acclaimed pianist Junko Kobayashi has established a career spanning repertoire from Scarlatti to contemporary music. She has performed with many of the world's finest orchestras and has broadcast and recorded throughout Europe and the Far East.

Junko Kobayashi

Alexander Kobrin

In June 2005, Alex Kobrin was awarded the prestigious Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Gold Medal at the Twelfth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Immediately following this announcement, Kobrin began his first tour to the United States including recitals at Bass Hall for the Cliburn Series and for the Washington Performing Arts Society followed by further debuts at La Roque d'Antheron, Ravinia Festival, Beethoven Easter Festival, Hannover Prize winners Series, Turner Sims and at the renowned Klavier-Festival Ruhr.

Alexander Kobrin

Gidon Kremer

Of all the world's leading violinists, Gidon Kremer has perhaps had the most unconventional career. Born in Riga, Latvia, he began studying the violin at the age of four with his father and grandfather, who were both distinguished string players.

Gidon Kremer

Dave Lee

One of the UK's finest horn players, Dave Lee has held principal positions with many of the major orchestras and is in constant demand as a soloist and ensemble musician. He is currently solo horn with the Michael Nyman Band. Recently featured as the solo horn on the soundtrack to Micahel Kamen's "Band of Brothers" Dave Lee's unique horn sound is unmistakable.

Dave Lee

Jack Liebeck

Described by the world press as "phenomenal", ''an artist of international calibre", "consummately talented", "inspired", "a superlative musician", "stunning", Jack Liebeck is one of the most talked-about and most talented young violinists to appear in recent years.

Jack Liebeck

Jeremy Limb

Jeremy Limb is a highly versatile musician, actor and performer. Not only has he pursued a highly successful career as a pianist (having performed major piano concertos, broadcast several times on BBC Radio 3 and working as a regular pianist for English National Opera) he is well-known as an accomplished writer, comedian and actor and was nominated for the LWT New Comedy writing award for his play "Play Wisty for Me".

Jeremy Limb

Warren Mailley-Smith

Warren Mailley-Smith is one of the UK's outstanding young pianists and was recently proposed as a new Steinway Artist. His solo Wigmore Hall debut was given to critical acclaim before a capacity audience and he has been awarded several performances at the Southbank Centre, including in the â€˜Freshâ€™ series and the Park Lane Group in the Purcell Room and he recently made his concerto debut at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

Warren Mailley-Smith

Israela Margalit

Israela Margalit is an internationally renowned concert pianist and recording artist. She appeared with fifty of the world's greatest orchestras, including The Berlin Philharmonic and The American Big Five, and toured in the US, South America, Western and Eastern Europe, as well as the Middle East and Asia.

Israela Margalit

Fernando Marin

Originally from Alicante, Fernando Marín has given concerts as a soloist and basso continuo player in Mexico, Holland, Belgium, the Czech Republic and Poland. Marin’s specialization in rediscovered instruments from the sixteenth century, as the Vihuela de arco and the Lyra-viol has been a highlight of his projects. Currently, he is the teacher of Viola da Gamba in the Conservatorio Profesional de Música in Zaragoza.

Fernando Marin

Roman Mints

Multi-award-winning Russian-born violinist Roman Mints is one of a new generation of young classically trained artists who passionate advocates of contemporary music. Drawing, in particular, on the talents of fellow Russian musicians, Mints has been responsible for commissioning a wide range of new acoustic and electro-acoustic violin works. www.romanmints.com

Roman Mints

Roman Mints

Roman Mints

National Youth Orchestra of Wales

The National Youth Orchestra of Wales was founded in 1945 and is Europe's longest-standing national youth orchestra. It has an impressive history and has rightly merited attention both in Wales and beyond.

National Youth Orchestra of Wales

Anna Noakes and Richard Hand

International artist Anna Noakes is in great demand as a solo performer and broadcasts regularly for BBC radio and television. She also works as a guest principal flute with a number of London's major orchestras including the Royal Opera House and the London Philharmonic. Richard Hand is much in demand as an ensemble player, playing at the BBC Proms, and having made numerous recordings and broadcasts throughout the world.

Anna Noakes and Richard Hand

Northern Ballet Theatre Orchestra

Northern Ballet Theatre is committed to live music at as many of its performances as possible and has its own regular orchestra. The Orchestra also perform a number of concerts outside of its work with the company. This includes the highly acclaimed outdoor concert, "Classical Fantasia" at Kirkstall Abbey every September.

Northern Ballet Theatre Orchestra

Northern Ballet Theatre Orchestra

Ruth Palmer

"Strident, shocking, imperious and beautiful..."

Anna Picard, The Independent on Sunday

Fast developing and international reputation for her intense physical performances, deeply sonorous sound and championing of new music, award winning violinist Ruth Palmer has been described by Raphael Wallfisch as "One of the most gifted and musical players of her generation".

Ruth Palmer

The Philharmonia Orchestra and Others

The Philharmonia Orchestra is one of the world's great orchestras. Acknowledged as the UK's foremost musical pioneer, with an extraordinary recording legacy, the Philharmonia leads the field for its quality of playing, and for its innovative approach to audience development, residencies, music education and the use of new technologies in reaching a global audience. Together with its relationships with the world's most sought-after artists, most importantly its Principal Conductor Christoph von DohnÃ¡nyi, the Philharmonia Orchestra is at the heart of British musical life.

(photo credit: Richard Haughton)

The Philharmonia Orchestra and Others

Piano 4 Hands

Piano 4 Hands has rapidly established a reputation as one of the leading piano duos of its generation, widely acclaimed in the UK and abroad both as versatile duettists and also as a dynamic two piano team. Joseph Tong and Waka Hasegawa are regular performers at London's Wigmore Hall, South Bank Centre and Fairfield Halls and were prize winners at the 2003 Tokyo International Piano Duo Competition and at the Schubert International Competition in the Czech Republic in 2001.

Piano 4 Hands

Piano 4 Hands

Roland Roberts

Violinist and composer Roland Roberts is the Director of the City of Oxford Orchestra . He has been commissioned to write works for many ensembles and orchestras and has performed throughout the world to great accalaim.

Roland Roberts

Maxim Rysanov

Recognised as one of the world’s best and most charismatic viola players, Maxim Rysanov is the winner of the prestigious 2008 Classic FM Gramophone Young Artist of the Year. Additional awards include the Tertis and Geneva competitions as well as the 2007 BBC New Generation artist scheme.

Maxim Rysanov

Atsuko Sahara

Atsuko Sahara was the Winner of the 2004 Uralsk International Violin Competition and is one of the most eagerly anticipated young musicians currently appearing at international festivals.

She has recently recorded her debut disc with Quartz. A rising star to watch...

Atsuko Sahara

Richard Saxel

Richard Saxel has worked with a fascinating variety of artists, from Indonesian puppeteers to ballet dancers, tango musicians, trapeze artists, music theatre performers, jazz singers and also with the Endymion Ensemble under Gyorgy Kurtag. He has has performed at many major festivals and is currently Head of Keyboard Studies at Cranleigh School in Surrey.

Richard Saxel

Ittai Shapira

Ittai Shapira has performed as a soloist with many of the

greatest international orchestras and conductors throughout the world. He grew up in Israel and now lives in New York and has bene the recipient of many prestigious awards.

Ittai Shapira

Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra

The Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra has an illustrious history of music making with many of the world's greatest conductors and is one of the most acclaimed and respected of European symphony orchestras.

Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra

Martino Tirimo

Martino Tirimo was born into a musical family in Cyprus and as a child prodigy appeared as both pianist and conductor; at 12 he conducted La Traviata seven times. He has appeared with many of the world's leading orchestras both as conductor and soloist and has recorded extensively, including his celebrated cycle of all 21 Schubert sonatas.

Martino Tirimo

Mikel Toms

Born in 1968, the British conductor Mikel Toms has been Director of Recordings of the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra in the Czech Republic since 2005. He was Artistic Director of the acclaimed contemporary music chamber orchestra Reservoir from 1993 to 2000.

Mikel Toms

Steve Topping

English guitarist Steve Topping grew up in Liverpool during the sixties.

Born into a musical household he was playing guitar from the age of seven. He was already pushing against technical horizons when he started music college.

Later on, composing became equally important to him...but the tough part was yet to come: finding himself and not being a follower.

That early promise is now being fulfilled ... in a late flowering.

Steve Topping

Marc Verter

Marc Verter holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Indiana and from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where he studied with Graham Johnson. He has participated in festivals in Europe and the United States, including the Britten–Pears School in Aldeburgh and the Steans–Ravinia Festival in Chicago. In April 2004 he was appointed an official accompanist in the Queen Elisabeth Competition for Singers in Brussels.
Marc Verter has won several accompanist prizes such as the Geoffrey Parsons Award and the Great Elm Prize. Marc works as a coach at the Guildhall School and is the joint artistic director of the Chelsea Schubert Festival.

Marc Verter

Elizabeth Walker

Elizabeth Walker is on of the UK's leading early music flautists, specialising in Baroque and Classical flute repertoire. She has performed with many period and moder orchestras, including the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Classical Opera Company, The English Concert, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the City of London Sinfonia.

Elizabeth Walker

Benjamin Wallfisch

Described by Humphrey Burton on BBC Radio 3 as "a major new name on the new music horizon", Benjamin Wallfisch's fast-growing list of large-scale orchestral, vocal and chamber works shows him, at the age of 27, to be a serious composer for our times.

Benjamin Wallfisch

Jamie Walton

Jamie Walton is one of the UK's most outstanding young cellists and one who is rapidly making a name for himself as a performer and recording artist.

"He is a cellist of great integrity and outstanding performance ability combining warmth of tone with a technical command which reaches dazzling proportions. He leaves little doubt as to the success that lies ahead of him." [William Pleeth]

Jamie Walton

Llyr Williams

One of the most outstanding pianists of his generation, LlÅ·r brings an extraordinary musical intelligence to all his work, as soloist, accompanist and chamber musician. Last summer he made his Proms debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jiri Belohlavek, opened the Queen's Hall series at the Edinburgh Festival and appeared with the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields at the Barbican's Mostly Mozart Festival. This year he returns to the Edinburgh International Festival for the fourth time appearing with the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra conducted by Osmo Vanska.

Llyr Williams

The Ying Quartet

Based in the US, the Ying Quartet are one of the most exciting young quartets currently working on the international stage. Their acclaimed series, LifeMusic, is a programme of commissions by many of today's most vibrant composers.

The Ying Quartet

The Ying Quartet

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