NATALIE KLEIN

British cellist Natalie Clein studied at the Royal College of Music before completing her studies with Heinrich Schiff in Vienna. Her exceptional musicality has earned her a number of prestigious prizes including the Classical Award for Young British Performer of 2005, the Ingrid zu Solms Cultur Preis at the 2003 Kronberg Academie, and the BBC Young Musician of the Year (aged 16) in 1994. That same year she was the first British winner of the Eurovision Young Musicians Competition in Warsaw. She made her concerto debut in 1997, performing Haydn’s Cello Concerto in C major with Sir Roger Norrington and the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, and has since appeared with the British major orchestras conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras, Genadi Rozhdestvensky, Sir Andrew Davis, Heinrich Schiff, Sir Neville Marriner and Paul Daniel. She has given recitals (with her regular recital partners Julius Drake, Charles Owen and Kathy Stott) and performed extensively as a soloist with orchestras in Europe, the United States, Canada, South America, Japan and Korea. An avid chamber musician, Natalie Clein has been a return visitor of many of the greatest festivals in Europe, Canada and Australia, and her chamber music collaborators have included Martha Argerich, Ian Bostridge, Melvyn Tan, Imogen Cooper, Itamar Golan, Stephen Kovacevich, Lars Vogt, Steven Isserlis, Michael Collins, Sharon Kam, Emma Johnson, Nick Daniels, Priya Mitchell, Pekka Kuusisto and Isabelle Faust. She is also regularly invited to perform with the Belcea, Takács, and Jerusalem quartets, as well as the Nash Ensemble. Natalie Klein plays on the Simpson Guadagnini cello (1777).

Program

Bridge, Britten, Elgar