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Madeleine Mitchell Gordon MacKay amp Nigel Clayton
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Stay up to date with the University of Leeds International Concert Series by following us on social media @UoLConcerts - https://linktr.ee/uolconcerts • Also sign up to our newsletter - https://bit.ly/361BVoK • --------------------------------------------------- • Madeleine Mitchell (violin) Gordon MacKay (violin) Nigel Clayton (piano) • Judith Weir - Atlantic Drift Violin Duos • Michael Nyman - Taking it as Read for violin piano • Johannes Brahms - Violin Sonata no 2 in A, op 100 - Allegro amabile • James B Wilson - My Love Is Sleeping for violin and piano (world premiere) • Béla Bartók - selection from Duos for 2 violins, op 44 • Rebecca Clarke - Nocturne for 2 violins and piano • Part of the international Red Violin Festival Leeds, with music including folk-inspired violin duos by Bartok, Master of the King's Music, Dame Judith Weir celebrating the flow of traditional music from the British Isles to North America, lyrical music in Michael Nyman's 80th birthday year, and an exciting premiere supported by the Vaughan Williams Foundation of a new work by the young composer of last year's Last Night of the Proms BBC commission. Celebrated violinist Madeleine Mitchell founded the eclectic Red Violin festival with Yehudi Menuhin, staging highly successful previous festivals throughout Cardiff with wide national media coverage. • Madeleine Mitchell has performed as solo violinist and chamber musician in 50 countries in a wide repertoire, including at major festivals and venues such as the BBC Proms, Canberra International Music Festival, Lincoln Center New York, La Folle Journée Tokyo (2024), Seoul Center for the Arts and Wigmore Hall and Southbank Centre London. She has been a soloist with BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kiev Radio and Television Orchestra at the Kiev Festival and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Mitchell’s discography for which she has been nominated for Grammy and BBC Music Magazine Awards, includes works written for her by James MacMillan, Michael Nyman and Errollyn Wallen, FiddleSticks with percussion, Violin Songs (short popular pieces) and Violin Muse for Divine Art, Violin Conversations (Naxos 2023) and British Treasures for SOMM as well as a solo work written for her by Michael Berkeley in memory of Nicholas Snowman on his album ‘Collaborations’ (2024). • Gordon MacKay completed his music degree at London University, studying both violin and organ, before continuing violin studies under Saschko Gawriloff in Cologne. He sustains an enjoyably varied independent career across many genres of current musical life. This has included classical repertoire as a longstanding London Symphony Orchestra guest player, and commercial work. A consistent emphasis however has been on performing ensemble pieces by all generations of 20th and 21st Century composers internationally, creating many first performances and revivals of forgotten repertoire in an intriguing range of circumstances from new concert halls, to nightclubs, cinemas, tramsheds and empty factories, and in site determined performances interacting with the environment. As a Wigmore Hall Associate Artist with experimental music group Apartment House, he is regularly heard performing 20th Century iconic classics and new, some with an improvisational element, at Wigmore Hall, Dalston’s Café Oto, on BBC Radio 3 and at international contemporary music festivals. He has had many recordings released on the Another Timbre label, alongside others. He and Madeleine Mitchell recorded the duo written for them by Effy Efthimiou, a finalist in the Ivan Juritz Prize and performed Weir’s duos live-streamed from St John’s Smith Square on International Women’s Day 2021. • Nigel Clayton studied at the Royal College of Music, where he won prizes in every category of piano performance and the yearly BMus. A particular interest in chamber music and accompanying developed, with international prizes from competitions in London, New York (Concert Artists Guild) and the English Speaking Union. Since then his travel has included Japan, Taiwan, India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan with cellist Anup Kumar Biswas, the Middle East and America with Wissam Boustany, Scandinavia with Gerard LeFeuvre and throughout Europe. He has played at many music clubs and festivals, and for the BBC, at Wigmore Hall and the South Bank Centre. Nigel performs as concerto soloist and has given over 100 solo recitals on board British cruise liners. He’s appeared with Michael Collins, Sylvia Marcovici, Ofra Harnoy, Tasmin Little, Bryan Rayner Cook, the Chilingirian, Sorrel and Bingham Quartets. He has performed with Madeleine Mitchell for many years, including Wigmore Hall, Singapore’s Victoria Hall, St John’s Smith Square Americana Festival and Leeds International Concert Season.
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