Tasmin Little
Violin
On 10th March 2006, The Independent newspaper wrote "Tasmin Little was ideal to represent the Menuhin School's alumni. She is a true successor: international star, enthusiastic chamber player, and now conducting, too".
In addition to a flourishing career as a violin soloist, which has taken her to every continent of the world, Tasmin Little has further established her reputation as Artistic Director with her hugely successful "Delius Inspired" Festival, which was broadcast for a week on BBC Radio 3 in July 2006. The Festival, which comprised events ranging from orchestral concerts and chamber music to films and exhibitions, also reached 800 school children in an ambitious programme designed to widen interest in classical music for young people.
As a concerto player, Tasmin's performances in the 2006/07 season took her on a major tour to South East Asia and Australia playing Elgar's violin concerto celebrating the 150th anniversary of the composers birth as well as playing other repertoire in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Singapore, Ireland and throughout England. She now play/directs orchestras such as Norwegian Chamber, Britten Sinfonia and Royal Philharmonic and in 2007/08 she joins the London Mozart Players as a soloist and director in a UK tour.
In 2006, Tasmin made her fourteenth appearance at the BBC Promenade concerts in a performance of the rarely heard Glazunov concerto. She continues to champion seldom-performed repertoire and during the 2006/7 season she played Bruch's second violin concerto with the London Philharmonic, the Korngold concerto in Symphony Hall Birmingham and is one of the few violinists who have tackled Ligeti's challenging violin concerto.
Her twenty-three recordings, with repertoire ranging from Bruch and Brahms to Karlowicz and Arvo Pärt have received great critical acclaim.
Tasmin plays a 1757 Guadagnini violin and has, on kind loan from the Royal Academy of Music, the 'Regent' Stradivarius.
Tasmin Little has further established her reputation as Artistic Director. In 2008 she begins her first year as Artistic Director of the annual Orchestra of the Swan Spring Sounds International Music Festival, in which she will also appear as soloist in Vaughan Williams, Lark Ascending, the violin concerto by Samuel Barber, Finzi Introit and a new work Spring, from Roxanna Panufnik
Tasmin has her own web site, which is updated regularly, and includes details of her recordings, upcoming performances and other general information: www.tasminlittle.org.uk
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