Month: March 2013

Quatuor Ebène cellist Raphäel Merlin talks about what’s in store for the quartet – award winners in 2007 – during our BBT Celebrated weekend in May, and recalls the time spent with BBT films in the French Alps back in 2009: 

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Composing Breaking Silence for percussion ensemble O Duo has been a long, but rewarding process. In February 2001, I went to a party given by a musician friend. There I met a wonderful, vivacious Australian blonde who had the nerve to interrupt my conversation with a talented young percussionist with the words: ‘Do you mind […]

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It’s hard to believe that it was back in 2001 when Mitsuko Uchida approached me as I was leaving the running of the International Piano Series at the Southbank Centre after seven years and told me that she had a friend who wanted to form a charity to assist young musicians. Would I be interested […]

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