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AYCA 2008 Winner |
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James Barralet - Cello |
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Click here for James's repertoire list.
Read an interview with James published in Strings Magazine.
As joint winner of the 2007 Abstract Securities Landor Records competition, cellist James Barralet will shortly be recording his debut solo CD (with works by Kodaly's Solo Sonata, Britten's Third Suite and Roxburgh's Partita). He was also winner of the 2003 Royal Philharmonic Society Julius Isserlis scholarship which enabled him to study for three years with Thomas Demenga at Basel Hochschule fur Musik, where he concluded his studies in 2006 with the Soloists Diploma. James previously studied with Hannah Roberts at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) where he graduated with a first class honours degree, a professional performance diploma and a post-graduate performers diploma.
James has a broad range of musical interests - particularly North Indian Music, Eastern European folk music and free improvisation. He began his Indian music training during a six month teaching visit to the Mathieson Music School in Calcutta in 1998 and continued his studies at the Ali Akbar College of Music in Basel with the internationally renowned sarod player, Ken Zuckerman. He has worked with tabla player, Sankar Chowdhury and will give concerts and workshops with him in 2008. Contemporary music is important for James and he has premiered pieces by composers including Gualtiero Dazzi, Raymond Head, Isabel Klaus, Philippe Kocher and Reto Stadelman. His arrangements have been performed at the Graz festival in Austria and at the Stratford and Warwick festivals, amongst others, and is currently writing an arrangement of Piazzolla Tangos for eight celli, to be performed in Graz this summer.
As a soloist, James has given concerts throughout Europe, in India, Korea and the USA. He has performed at the Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall, in the Purcell Room (as part of the Park Lane Group contemporary music young artist series), and twice as soloist with Basel Symphony Orchestra playing Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 1 and Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations.
James has won numerous prizes and awards and played in masterclasses with David Geringas at the Kronberg Cello Academy, Ralph Kirshbaum, Miklos Perenyi and Boris Pergamenschikow at IMS Prussia Cove, Benjamin Zander at the London Masterclasses, Robert Cohen in Bulgaria and Pieter Wispelwey in Switzerland.
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10th May 2008 |
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