Hebrides Ensemble

William Conway - Artistic Director

Catherine Marwood - Viola

Daniel Bell - Violin

David Adams - Violin

Sarah Bevan-Baker - Violin

Yann Ghiro – Clarinet

Maximiliano Martin – Clarinet

“... a searing experience and the hottest ticket in town”
The Scotsman
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The Players

Some regular players…

William Conway was born in Glasgow and studied at both the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and the Royal College of Music where he was a prodigious prize-winner. He is principal cellist of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and for ten years held the same position with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, performing regularly as soloist and director. He has recorded extensively, including the cello concerto written for him by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, as well as a disc of music by John Bevan Baker for Linn Records (CKD 286).

In 1994 William was a prizewinner at the Leeds Conductors' Competition and has since established a dual career as cellist and conductor worldwide. He has conducted the major Scottish orchestras as well as Northern Sinfonia, English Sinfonia, Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the symphony orchestras of Cairo, Zagreb, Antwerp, Phoenix and Göttingen in all repertoires including opera.

He is co-founder and Artistic Director of Hebrides Ensemble and has commissioned over fifty new works in the last seventeen years. William has been presented with a Scottish Society of Composers Award for “an outstanding contribution to the promotion of contemporary music”.

He plays on a cello from 1695 by Giovanni Tononi of Bologna

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Alexander Janiczek – Violin

Alexander Janiczek was born in Salzburg and is highly sought after as a director, soloist, guest leader and chamber musician. He first came to public attention at the age of nine, when he won first prize in the National Competition of Austria.

From the age of 20, he toured extensively as leader, director and soloist of the Camerata Salzburg with Sandor Vegh to major festivals across Europe and the Americas. He has a close relationship with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra where he was leader from 1999-2002 and since has been director and soloist on numerous tours throughout Scotland and Europe. He is also a regular guest director with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and has directed the Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali of Milan and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra.

As a soloist Alexander Janiczek has appeared with renowned artists such as Sir Roger Norrington, Murray Perahia, Trevor Pinnock, Yuri Bashmet, Andrew Litton, Ton Koopman, James MacMillan, Thierry Fischer and Emmanuel Krivine. Most recently he has performed the Berg, Dvorak, Brahms, Hartmann, Spohr and Mendelssohn Violin Concertos.

Alexander Janiczek is committed to exploring 19th century performance practice, with La Chambre Philharmonique under Emmanuel Krivine and the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées under Philippe Herreweghe. He is also a dedicated chamber musician and has appeared with artists such as Steven Isserlis, Boris Pergamenschikow, Joshua Bell, Till Fellner, Thomas Adés, Christian Zacharias and Llyr Williams. He has tutored at the prestigious Marlboro Music Festival, and performs regularly with Llyr Williams, including in Italy and at the East Neuk Festival.

Alexander Janiczek plays the ‘Baron Oppenheim’ Stradivarius from 1716, which is on loan to him from the National Bank of Austria.

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Catherine Marwood studied at the Royal Academy Of Music and spent the following nine years playing with the Fairfield String Quartet with whom she toured Europe and recorded for the Hyperion label. She also explored the oboe quartet repertoire with the Marwood Ensemble and recorded a disc of the music of Jean Francaix.

In 1988 Catherine was appointed principal viola with Scottish Chamber Orchestra, a position she held for ten years. She has appeared many times as soloist with the orchestra collaborating with such artists as Joseph Swensen, Yuri Bashmet and Ernst Kovacic and in the SCO’s chamber series she worked with Michael Collins, Stephen Isserlis, Peter Donohoe and many others. She also premiered and recorded Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Strathclyde concerto no 5.

Catherine has also appeared as soloist with a number of other orchestras including the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. She is principal viola in the Scottish Ensemble who have recorded under the prestigious Wigmore Live label and frequently broadcast on Radio 3 and is in frequent demand from orchestras and chamber groups around the country. She teaches at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music.

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Hailed by The Scotsman as ‘a formidable talent’, violinist Daniel Bell was born in 1976 and grew up in Nottingham and Edinburgh. He studied at Chetham‘s School of Music in Manchester, the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and the Cleveland Institute of Music where he graduated with Academic Honours.

In 1998 he won 1st Prize in the Royal Over-Seas League String Competition in London, and has performed around Britain, at major music festivals such as Cheltenham and Brighton, and in London at the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, and Queen Elizabeth Hall. His concerts have also been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM. His Purcell Room recital was described by The Times as ‘immediately and irresistibly engaging’, and by The Independent as ‘magnificent. His extensive experience as a concerto soloist has covered the entire repertoire, and his recitals have featured works from Bach to Elliott Carter.

Since 2000 he has lived in Berlin, where as a member of the Petersen Quartet from 2000 to 2008 he played regularly in the world‘s music capitals and at the major international festivals, and made many critically acclaimed recordings. In 2008 he was appointed a member of the Berlin Philharmonic.

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David Adams is Co-Artistic Director of the Goldberg Ensemble, Associate Leader of the City of London Sinfonia and Tutor in Violin at the Royal Northern College of Music. As an orchestral leader David has appeared with many of the UK’s symphony and chamber orchestras including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Ulster Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Johns, and Britten Sinfonia.

Equally at home on violin and viola he has been a member of the Raphael Ensemble and Ovid Ensemble and has made numerous guest appearances with the Nash Ensemble, Lindsays, Leopold String Trio, Hebrides Ensemble, Gould Piano Trio, Sorrel and Danel String Quartets. His other musical collaborations include concerts and broadcasts with Steven Isserlis, Alexander Janizcek and James Clark. He regularly attends the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove and has participated in the IMS national tours (including 2004) and 30th anniversary concert at the Wigmore Hall.

David began his studies at the age of 5 with his father, Principal Viola in the Halle Orchestra. He continued his training with Malcolm Layfield at Chetham’s School of Music and the RNCM and then in the USA with Zvi Zeitlin and Daniel Phillips. He plays a violin by Johannes Gagliano from 1800.

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Sarah Bevan-Baker was born in Aberdeen and grew up on the Black Isle and in Glasgow. She studied violin at the Royal College of Music with Frances Mason winning several chamber music prizes and the Leonard Hirsch Prize ‘for an outstanding performance at the Diploma recitals’.

Since then she has been a member of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and several chamber ensembles.

She currently freelances, enjoying a wide variety of music ranging from baroque (she plays regularly with Dunedin Consort and Players and Concerto Caledonia, Scotland’s baroque chamber ensemble) to orchestral work to contemporary music.

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Yann Ghiro was born in 1971 in Nice and began clarinet lessons at the age of eleven. After studying for six years at the Paris Conservatoire where he gained first prize in clarinet and bass clarinet Yann furthered his studies at the Julliard School of Music in New York graduating in 1996 with his masters degree. On his return to France he became principal bass clarinet in the Pasdeloup Orchestra in Paris whilst also appearing regularly with Paris opera, Orchestre de Paris, Ensemble Intercontemporain and the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra.

Since 1998 Yann has been living in Scotland where he is currently the principal clarinet in the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. He often performs with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra as guest principal and is a teacher at the RSAMD.

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“... a searing experience and the hottest ticket in town”
The Scotsman
__________________________________________________________________________

The Players

Some regular players…

William Conway - Artistic Director

William Conway was born in Glasgow and studied at both the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and the Royal College of Music where he was a prodigious prize-winner. He is principal cellist of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and for ten years held the same position with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, performing regularly as soloist and director. He has recorded extensively, including the cello concerto written for him by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, as well as a disc of music by John Bevan Baker for Linn Records (CKD 286).

In 1994 William was a prizewinner at the Leeds Conductors' Competition and has since established a dual career as cellist and conductor worldwide. He has conducted the major Scottish orchestras as well as Northern Sinfonia, English Sinfonia, Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the symphony orchestras of Cairo, Zagreb, Antwerp, Phoenix and Göttingen in all repertoires including opera.

He is co-founder and Artistic Director of Hebrides Ensemble and has commissioned over fifty new works in the last seventeen years. William has been presented with a Scottish Society of Composers Award for “an outstanding contribution to the promotion of contemporary music”.

He plays on a cello from 1695 by Giovanni Tononi of Bologna

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Alexander Janiczek – Violin

Alexander Janiczek was born in Salzburg and is highly sought after as a director, soloist, guest leader and chamber musician. He first came to public attention at the age of nine, when he won first prize in the National Competition of Austria.

From the age of 20, he toured extensively as leader, director and soloist of the Camerata Salzburg with Sandor Vegh to major festivals across Europe and the Americas. He has a close relationship with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra where he was leader from 1999-2002 and since has been director and soloist on numerous tours throughout Scotland and Europe. He is also a regular guest director with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and has directed the Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali of Milan and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra.

As a soloist Alexander Janiczek has appeared with renowned artists such as Sir Roger Norrington, Murray Perahia, Trevor Pinnock, Yuri Bashmet, Andrew Litton, Ton Koopman, James MacMillan, Thierry Fischer and Emmanuel Krivine. Most recently he has performed the Berg, Dvorak, Brahms, Hartmann, Spohr and Mendelssohn Violin Concertos.

Alexander Janiczek is committed to exploring 19th century performance practice, with La Chambre Philharmonique under Emmanuel Krivine and the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées under Philippe Herreweghe. He is also a dedicated chamber musician and has appeared with artists such as Steven Isserlis, Boris Pergamenschikow, Joshua Bell, Till Fellner, Thomas Adés, Christian Zacharias and Llyr Williams. He has tutored at the prestigious Marlboro Music Festival, and performs regularly with Llyr Williams, including in Italy and at the East Neuk Festival.

Alexander Janiczek plays the ‘Baron Oppenheim’ Stradivarius from 1716, which is on loan to him from the National Bank of Austria.

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Catherine Marwood - Viola

Catherine Marwood studied at the Royal Academy Of Music and spent the following nine years playing with the Fairfield String Quartet with whom she toured Europe and recorded for the Hyperion label. She also explored the oboe quartet repertoire with the Marwood Ensemble and recorded a disc of the music of Jean Francaix.

In 1988 Catherine was appointed principal viola with Scottish Chamber Orchestra, a position she held for ten years. She has appeared many times as soloist with the orchestra collaborating with such artists as Joseph Swensen, Yuri Bashmet and Ernst Kovacic and in the SCO’s chamber series she worked with Michael Collins, Stephen Isserlis, Peter Donohoe and many others. She also premiered and recorded Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Strathclyde concerto no 5.

Catherine has also appeared as soloist with a number of other orchestras including the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. She is principal viola in the Scottish Ensemble who have recorded under the prestigious Wigmore Live label and frequently broadcast on Radio 3 and is in frequent demand from orchestras and chamber groups around the country. She teaches at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music.

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Daniel Bell - Violin

Hailed by The Scotsman as ‘a formidable talent’, violinist Daniel Bell was born in 1976 and grew up in Nottingham and Edinburgh. He studied at Chetham‘s School of Music in Manchester, the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and the Cleveland Institute of Music where he graduated with Academic Honours.

In 1998 he won 1st Prize in the Royal Over-Seas League String Competition in London, and has performed around Britain, at major music festivals such as Cheltenham and Brighton, and in London at the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, and Queen Elizabeth Hall. His concerts have also been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM. His Purcell Room recital was described by The Times as ‘immediately and irresistibly engaging’, and by The Independent as ‘magnificent. His extensive experience as a concerto soloist has covered the entire repertoire, and his recitals have featured works from Bach to Elliott Carter.

Since 2000 he has lived in Berlin, where as a member of the Petersen Quartet from 2000 to 2008 he played regularly in the world‘s music capitals and at the major international festivals, and made many critically acclaimed recordings. In 2008 he was appointed a member of the Berlin Philharmonic.

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David Adams - Violin

David Adams is Co-Artistic Director of the Goldberg Ensemble, Associate Leader of the City of London Sinfonia and Tutor in Violin at the Royal Northern College of Music. As an orchestral leader David has appeared with many of the UK’s symphony and chamber orchestras including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Ulster Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Johns, and Britten Sinfonia.

Equally at home on violin and viola he has been a member of the Raphael Ensemble and Ovid Ensemble and has made numerous guest appearances with the Nash Ensemble, Lindsays, Leopold String Trio, Hebrides Ensemble, Gould Piano Trio, Sorrel and Danel String Quartets. His other musical collaborations include concerts and broadcasts with Steven Isserlis, Alexander Janizcek and James Clark. He regularly attends the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove and has participated in the IMS national tours (including 2004) and 30th anniversary concert at the Wigmore Hall.

David began his studies at the age of 5 with his father, Principal Viola in the Halle Orchestra. He continued his training with Malcolm Layfield at Chetham’s School of Music and the RNCM and then in the USA with Zvi Zeitlin and Daniel Phillips. He plays a violin by Johannes Gagliano from 1800.

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Sarah Bevan-Baker - Violin

Sarah Bevan-Baker was born in Aberdeen and grew up on the Black Isle and in Glasgow. She studied violin at the Royal College of Music with Frances Mason winning several chamber music prizes and the Leonard Hirsch Prize ‘for an outstanding performance at the Diploma recitals’.

Since then she has been a member of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and several chamber ensembles.

She currently freelances, enjoying a wide variety of music ranging from baroque (she plays regularly with Dunedin Consort and Players and Concerto Caledonia, Scotland’s baroque chamber ensemble) to orchestral work to contemporary music.

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Yann Ghiro – Clarinet

Yann Ghiro was born in 1971 in Nice and began clarinet lessons at the age of eleven. After studying for six years at the Paris Conservatoire where he gained first prize in clarinet and bass clarinet Yann furthered his studies at the Julliard School of Music in New York graduating in 1996 with his masters degree. On his return to France he became principal bass clarinet in the Pasdeloup Orchestra in Paris whilst also appearing regularly with Paris opera, Orchestre de Paris, Ensemble Intercontemporain and the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra.

Since 1998 Yann has been living in Scotland where he is currently the principal clarinet in the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. He often performs with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra as guest principal and is a teacher at the RSAMD.

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Maximiliano Martin – Clarinet

Born in La Orotava (Tenerife) Spanish clarinettist Maximiliano Martín is rapidly establishing himself as one of the most exciting and charismatic musicians of his generation.

After being appointed Principal Clarinet of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in 2002 and winning the Young Artists Platform Competition in the same year, Martín has since made debuts at the Wigmore Hall London, Queens Hall Edinburgh, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Bridgewater Hall Manchester, St Davids Hall Cardiff, Perth Concert Hall, St George’s Bristol, Brighton and Newbury Festivals and overseas at the Tallin Festival, Palau de la Musica Catalana and Teatro Monumental in Madrid.

As a soloist Martín has performed all the major concertos with orchestras such as SCO, the London Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Halle Orchestra, European Union Chamber Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife, Orquesta de Cadaques, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Munich Kammerorkester under conductors such as Abbado, Antonini, Bruggen, Davis,Haitink, Davis, Mackerras, Marriner, Berglund, Lopez Cobos, Elder, Krivine and Litton , Antonini, Swensen, McGegan, Canev and de Ridder.

Chamber music collaborations include London Winds, Moonwinds Ensemble and with artists such as Michael Collins, Alexander Janiczek, Artur Pizarro, Christian Zacharias and Pekka Kuusisto. His debut album “Fantasía” and the recording of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra were released last year by Linn Records to great critical acclaim, and his performance of the Nielsen Clarinet Concert with the SCO was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

Martín is also active in the education field – he currently teaches at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and regularly gives master classes in Spain. Martín is one of the Artistic Directors of the “Chamber Music Festival of La Villa de La Orotava” held every year in his home town.

Maximiliano Martin is a Buffet Crampon Artist and plays with Buffet Tosca Clarinets.

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Born in La Orotava (Tenerife) Spanish clarinettist Maximiliano Martín is rapidly establishing himself as one of the most exciting and charismatic musicians of his generation.

After being appointed Principal Clarinet of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in 2002 and winning the Young Artists Platform Competition in the same year, Martín has since made debuts at the Wigmore Hall London, Queens Hall Edinburgh, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Bridgewater Hall Manchester, St Davids Hall Cardiff, Perth Concert Hall, St George’s Bristol, Brighton and Newbury Festivals and overseas at the Tallin Festival, Palau de la Musica Catalana and Teatro Monumental in Madrid.

As a soloist Martín has performed all the major concertos with orchestras such as SCO, the London Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Halle Orchestra, European Union Chamber Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife, Orquesta de Cadaques, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Munich Kammerorkester under conductors such as Abbado, Antonini, Bruggen, Davis,Haitink, Davis, Mackerras, Marriner, Berglund, Lopez Cobos, Elder, Krivine and Litton , Antonini, Swensen, McGegan, Canev and de Ridder.

Chamber music collaborations include London Winds, Moonwinds Ensemble and with artists such as Michael Collins, Alexander Janiczek, Artur Pizarro, Christian Zacharias and Pekka Kuusisto. His debut album “Fantasía” and the recording of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra were released last year by Linn Records to great critical acclaim, and his performance of the Nielsen Clarinet Concert with the SCO was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

Martín is also active in the education field – he currently teaches at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and regularly gives master classes in Spain. Martín is one of the Artistic Directors of the “Chamber Music Festival of La Villa de La Orotava” held every year in his home town.

Maximiliano Martin is a Buffet Crampon Artist and plays with Buffet Tosca Clarinets.

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