Winchester
Chamber Music
Festival
25-27 April
‘08
Benjamin Nabarro plays worldwide as soloist and chamber musician. He appears regularly at international festivals such as Cheltenham, the BBC Proms, Aldeburgh, Schleswig-Holstein and also in Ponte de Lima, Portugal and Bullawayo, Zimbabwe. Duo partners include Philip Moore and Leslie Howard, as well as the London Bridge Ensemble’s pianist Daniel Tong. During recent years he has given concerto performances of works by Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Elgar, Sibelius, Leighton and Piazzolla. Benjamin has appeared as director of the New London Soloists Orchestra, with which he performs regularly as a soloist; he has also directed the English Chamber Orchestra.
As well as his membership of the London Bridge Ensemble, Benjamin is violinist of the Olivier Ensemble, a group inspired by Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time; the Ensemble uses this particular group of instruments in all their different combinations. Benjamin is also violinist of the Wakeford Ensemble and a regular guest of the Nash Ensemble and Fibonacci Sequence. His diverse repertoire includes major chamber works of many genres, and he has made recordings on the Hyperion, Black Box and Merlin Classics labels, including works by Dvořák, Suk, Saint-Saëns and Mark-Anthony Turnage.
Future plans include the recording of Liszt’s complete works for Violin and Piano with the celebrated pianist and world authority on Liszt, Leslie Howard.
Future plans include the recording of Liszt’s complete works for Violin and Piano with the celebrated pianist and world authority on Liszt, Leslie Howard.
“His reading of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto demonstrated his purity of style, elegance of phrasing and the unsurpassed perfection of his technique which led to him being called back time and again by the capacity audience...He is an outstanding artist”. Musical Opinion
