Month: April 2013

Cellist Nicolas Altstaedt, BBT fellow in 2009, talks about why Schubert’s Trout Quintet is special to him and weighs in on our debate, “Is Talent Enough?” Can you share a special memory about the year you received your BBT Fellowship? I heard the news that I had received a BBT Fellowship during a time when I was […]

Read more about BBT Celebrated: Nicolas Altstaedt

Here we are just four weeks away from BBT Celebrated, with 13 events taking place at the Southbank over three days (May 17-19), and we are in overdrive. It is incredible to think that we are now so close to seeing the fulfillment of an idea which I had over three years ago to celebrate […]

Read more about BBT Celebrated: Who Can Believe It!

Of the highly varied benefits and pleasures of being a BBT award-winner (2005), one which will endure with much affection is the camaraderie amongst us musicians during the tour organised on our behalf with Christian Tetzlaff. We made for a very heterogeneous group of violins, cello, piano, mezzo and percussion, and as we trailed our […]

Read more about BBT Celebrated: Colin Currie

Mezzo Christianne Stotijn talks about current plans, dream projects and shares her memories about receiving a BBT award in 2005:

Read more about BBT Celebrated: Christianne Stotijn

There always seemed to be a lot of spit involved. Accompanied by a certain lightheadedness and lips that no longer belonged to me. Yet it was intriguing. Coils of cold metal, pistons ready to go and a seductive bell end to the contraption.  Indeed I managed to produce occasional belches of aleatoric noise. But my […]

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