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Simon Blendis

Violinist Simon Blendis is known both as a soloist and as a member of the Schubert Ensemble and other chamber groups. He is also a prominent orchestral player, a recording artist with a large catalog, and an educator. Blendis took up the violin at age four, not pressured to do so nor subjected to severe training regimens; he simply made rapid progress and had attained Grade 8 status by the time he was 13. Blendis attended Cambridge University, and while he was there, he met violist Douglas Paterson. Paterson was a member of London's Schubert Ensemble, and when that group had a vacant violinist's chair due to the emigration of its first violinist to Canada, he thought of Blendis and invited him to apply. Blendis auditioned and was accepted, and soon the 20-something musician was performing a busy schedule of chamber music and making recordings, beginning in 1997 with a recording of piano quartets by Brahms and Mendelssohn on the ASV label. With the Schubert Ensemble, Blendis appeared at major British and European venues, including Wigmore Hall and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. He remained with the Schubert Ensemble until 2018 when it dissolved. The group won the Royal Philharmonic Award for Best Chamber Ensemble in 1999. During this period, Blendis was also active as an orchestral player, becoming concertmaster of Japan's Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa in 1999. In Japan, he met his wife, Saoko, a pianist with whom he has performed and recorded. The Schubert Ensemble commissioned some 50 new works, leaving Blendis with an orientation toward contemporary music that has developed in his career as a soloist. He has premiered new concertos composed for him by David Knotts (in 2013) and Jeff Moore (in 2017), and various other composers, including jazz piano legend Dave Brubeck, have written new works for him. In 2014, Blendis became concertmaster of the London Mozart Players, with whom he has performed extensively; he has often directed the group from the violin and has performed with its chamber music offshoot, the LMP Chamber Ensemble. He has also recorded with the London Mozart Players, and he has made several recordings as a soloist. In 2022, Simon and Saoko Blendis released the album Love Is Like a Violin: Salon Treasures from the Max Jaffe Library, featuring music collected by British light music violinist Jaffe. Simon Blendis is on the faculty of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
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