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Reading the score like a book | Tamsin Waley-Cohen of the Albion quartet | TEDxLondon

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2017 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Tamsin reveals how musicians interpret and tell the stories inherent within musical pieces. The talk ends with a performance of the first movement of Ravel's Quartet. 

Described by the Guardian as a performer of “fearless intensity”, young British violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen is one of the ECHO Rising Stars of the 2016/17 season.

The only British artist selected for the prestigious programme of the European Concert Halls Organisation, she will embark on a major tour to Europe’s foremost concert halls, including Musikverein in Vienna, Cité de la Musique in Paris, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Barbican in London and Philharmonie in Cologne. The tour will begin with her return to Birmingham Symphony Hall – the venue that nominated her for the programme. Her recital programme will include a new work by Oliver Knussen, written for Tamsin Waley-Cohen and commissioned by the ECHO Rising Stars programme. One of the Wigmore Hall’s “Emerging Artists” of the 2015/2016 season, she has already performed with major UK orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, and this season will see her debut with the Hallé Orchestra, with whom she will perform the Tchaikovsky concerto with Stephen Bell. She will also make her debut with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under Vasily Petrenko.

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