Bitesize Music with Shirley Turner (violin) and Peter Mallinson (viola)

A mood-lifting, jubilant 15-minute programme of classical violin/viola duets, followed by a Meet-the-Artists session and mindful drawing activities.

Watch this short interview with Shirley on music and emotions too!

Shirley Turner studied violin at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with Simon Fischer and Yfrah Neaman, winning numerous awards including the Sir James Caird Bloch Prize and the Waddell Memorial Prize. She has played principal second violin with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and has performed with the London Mozart Players, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and the Ulster Orchestra; she has been a first violinist in the BBC Symphony Orchestra since 2001. As a chamber musician Shirley has a wide range of interests, from mainstream repertoire to unfamiliar or newly-commissioned works. She has appeared with the Degas Quartet and gives regular recitals throughout the UK of music for violin and viola. She plays a Luigi Cardi violin from 1886.

Peter Mallinson enjoys both modern and period viola performance. As well as being a member of the BBC Symphony Orchestra he has played with the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Hanover Band, and Arcangelo. As a soloist Peter has given many first performances, including the UK premiere of Sally Beamish’s That Recent Earth, and the world premieres of Robin Holloway’s Suite en Saga, Edwin Roxburgh’s Sonata for Three, and Detlev Glanert’s The Pleiades. His interest in music for two violas has led to three CDs for Meridian Records with his duo partner, Matthias Wiesner; he is currently working on the next. Before studying at the Royal Academy of Music with Martin Outram and Jane Rogers, Peter read music at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge

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