Winchester
Chamber Music
Festival
25-27 April
‘08
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The London Bridge Ensemble
Daniel Tong piano/Festival Co-director    
Tom Dunn viola                      
Kate Gould cello/Festival Co-director
Ivan Ludlow baritone
 
with  Ania Safonova guest violin
 
 
Since making its Wigmore Hall debut in 2005, The London Bridge Ensemble has rapidly established itself as one of Britain’s most exciting and brilliant chamber groups. Individually, its performers are amongst the most distinguished artists of their generation. Collectively, the Ensemble’s engagements have included St John’s Smith Square, the City of London Festival, Wye Valley Chamber Music Festival, St George’s Bristol, Leicester International Music Festival’s lunchtime series, St David’s Hall Cardiff, Nottingham’s Djanogly Hall, Sheffield Music in the Round, the Kerry Chamber Music Festival and a return visit to the Wigmore Hall.
 
The London Bridge Ensemble has performed for BBC’s Radio 3 and Europe’s Canal+ and is the resident chamber group at the Festival of Opera and Classical Music in Ponte de Lima, Portugal.  
 
In spring 2008, a CD of works by Frank Bridge, from whom the Ensemble takes its name, was released as part of the Epoch series for the Dutton label. http://www.duttonvocalion.co.uk
 
“They demonstrated throughout the evening an extraordinary ability to weave and sustain extended melodic lines”  (The Strad)
 
Benjamin Ealovega