Madeleine Mitchell
Violinist Madeleine Mitchell has performed in more than 40 countries and is especially noted for her advocacy of new music; several of Britain's top composers have composed new music for her. She is also an important educator and music administrator.
Mitchell was born in London and grew up with music in the home: her parents were avid classical music listeners. Mitchell showed musical talent early; her Sunday school teacher told her parents that she was already leading other children in singing at the age of three. She studied in youth classes at the Royal College of Music as a teen, went on to enroll at the school for university studies, won its Tagore Gold Medal in 1978, and traveled to New York under a Fulbright scholarship for studies at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester and the Juilliard School in New York. Among her teachers was the legendary Dorothy DeLay. Several prizes Mitchell won came with recital opportunities at London's Southbank Centre, beginning in 1984.
Unusually, Mitchell began to commission new music quite early in her career, beginning with Fantasia, by Brian Elias, in 1986. Among the many other composers who have written music for her are Michael Nyman (in whose Michael Nyman Band she performed for a time), James MacMillan, and Tarik O'Regan. An entire album, In Sunlight: Pieces for Madeleine Mitchell, is devoted to compositions she originated in performance. Mitchell has performed with major European orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. A professor at the Royal College of Music since 1994, Mitchell has served on the school's RCM Council administrative body. She was artistic director of the Red Violin Festival in Cardiff, Wales, which was organized under the patronage of Lord Yehudi Menuhin and took place in 1997 and again in 2007. Mitchell has recorded for Somm, Signum Classics, Divine Art, and Naxos; for the latter label, she released an album in 2019 of music by Grace Williams with the Chamber Ensemble of London, of which she has served as director. She returned in 2023 on Naxos with the album Violin Conversations.
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Grace Williams: Chamber Music
Musique de chambre - Paru chez Naxos le 8 mars 2019
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Violin Conversations
Classique - Paru chez Naxos le 23 juin 2023
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Violin Muse
Madeleine Mitchell, Nigel Clayton, BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Cerys Jones, Edwin Outwater
Classique - Paru chez Divine Art le 20 oct. 2017
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Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps - Krauze: Quatuor pour la naissance
Joanna Macgregor, Madeleine Mitchell, Christopher van Kampen, David Campbell
Musique de chambre - Paru chez SoundCircus le 5 févr. 2016
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Musique pour piano & cordes
Madeleine Mitchell, Jack Rothstein, Howard Blake, Kenneth Essex, Peter Willison
Musique de chambre - Paru chez Naxos le 18 nov. 2008
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In Sunlight
Madeleine Mitchell, Andrew Ball
Musique de chambre - Paru chez NMC Recordings le 1 mai 2005
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David Matthews: Romanza, Op. 119a
Madeleine Mitchell, Nigel Clayton
Musique de chambre - Paru chez Divine Art le 20 janv. 2017
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British Treasures - Violin Sonatas
Madeleine Mitchell, Andrew Ball
Musique de chambre - Paru chez SOMM Recordings le 14 juil. 2003
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Fiddlesticks
Ensemble Bash, Madeleine Mitchell
Musique de chambre - Paru chez Signum Records le 5 nov. 2007
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Out In Outer
Alternatif et Indé - Paru chez SAGOS DISTRO le 18 juil. 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo