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LONDON CHAMBER ENSEMBLE Madeleine Mitchell (violin,Director), Nigel Clayton (piano) & STRING QUARTET
Madeleine Mitchell is "One of the UK's liveliest musical forces (and) foremost violinists"
"An all star group which manages to outdo all its rivals" - London Chamber Ensemble
Flexible Ensemble (variable number of performers)
Instrumentation
- Madeleine Mitchell - Violin
- Nigel Clayton - Piano
- Gordon MacKay - Violin
- Bridget Carey - Viola
- Joseph Spooner - cello
- Kyle Horch - Saxophone
Repertoire
Wide repertoire including violin sonatas Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Franck, Grieg, Dvorak, Strauss, Fauré, Ravel, Elgar, Prokofiev, Janacek, Delius, Ireland etc, short pieces, both popular and contemporary e.g. MacMillan and Errollyn Wallen written for her, John McLeod, Vaughan Williams etc.
QUARTETS - Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Dvorak, Ravel, Debussy, Borodin, Howells, Wood etc
Jazzed Up - violin, sax, piano - Shostakovitch Jazz Suite, Weill Threepenny Music, Gershwin An American in Paris "in Mitchell's highly effective arrangement" (The Times), Sondheim.
Violin Duos. e.g. Bartok, Judith Weir
Piano trios and Kodaly duo for violin and cello
Biography
Scottish Tour dates - London Chamber Ensemble Quartet: Dundee 10.12.24, 11.12.24 Kircaldy Inverurie duo recital 22.3.24 & classes. Fees on request, negotiable c£2000 incl airfares.
Mitchell plays Mendelssohn Concerto 18.8.24 Greyfriars Edinburgh (free admission)
Planning 2025/26
Madeleine Mitchell is one of the most distinguished and experienced violinists performing today, including throughout Scotland and for many music societies and orchestras. She is particularly known for her introduced recitals and chamber music programmes in standard repertoire, with many successful albums.
The London Chamber Ensemble Quartet has been established for 5 years and they release an album October 2024 for SOMM. The LCE previous recordings have been highly praised; Grace Williams Chamber Music for Naxos - no.2 Classical Charts, Guardian CD of the Week. @LonChamberEns
Madeleine has performed in 50 countries, recently as soloist with BBC National Orchestra of Wales, with recitals in USA, Singapore, Vienna, as Artist-in-Residence at the Canberra International Music Festival, Wigmore Hall and the Barbican. Madeleine was given a major profile in The Scotsman by Ken Walton, prior to her concerts in Edinburgh and Glasgow and the Sound festival and her MacMillan recording with Cappella Nova was BBC Music Magazine's Choral CD of the Month. Her performance of Bruch Violin Concerto during the Edinburgh Festival was reviewed as "totally bewitching...her full rich tone sang strongly."
Madeleine Mitchell's widely praised CDs include Violin Conversations 2023, 'Violin Muse' with Nigel Clayton, 'Violin Songs' (Classic FM CD of the Week); In Sunlight - pieces written for her by well-known British composers including 2 by MacMillan; Hummel violin sonatas and British Treasures (early 20 romantic violin sonatas), Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time (in the group she formed with Joanna MacGregor) and Bridge Chamber Music.
Madeleine has been accompanied for many years by pianist Nigel Clayton, (who also teaches at NESMS so is regularly in Aberdeen) and they've given well received recitals in Edinburgh, at Wigmore Hall and performed on BBC Radio 3 In Tune. Both artists are professors at the RCM and are experienced in giving workshops for all ages and levels, with concerts.
Madeleine is also joined by Gordon MacKay for violin duos
Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/ViolinClassics/videos?app=desktop
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