Wednesday 5th June, 7:45pm

TASMIN LITTLE

INTERNATIONAL VIOLINIST

Tickets £20

TASMIN LITTLE

TASMIN LITTLE - Violin

MARTIN ROSCOE - Piano

In 2008, Tasmin Little was the subject of a televised documentary by the prestigious
South Bank Show, which followed her ground-breaking project “The Naked Violin”.
This ambitious project, which boldly embraced the internet and offered up a free
downloadable recital of works for solo violin, included an on-going series of workshops
and concerts around the UK. Within days there were over 6,000 international websites
linked to Tasmin’s site.

Tasmin has played with many of the world’s greatest orchestras in a career that has taken
in every continent. In addition to regular solo performances, she has played/directed
orchestras such as Royal Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, London Mozart Players,
English Chamber Orchestra, Norwegian Chamber, European Chamber Orchestra and
Britten Sinfonia. In 2007/08 she joined the London Mozart Players as soloist and
director on a tour of the UK which also featured her UK conducting debut.

Tasmin’s performances in 2011/12 took her back to the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam
to perform Dritte Musik by Rihm, and she gave three concerto performances in London
at the South Bank, Cadogan Hall and the Barbican. She returned to Singapore, China,
Dublin and Philadelphia, also making her debut in Dubai. In 2012, Tasmin made her
nineteenth appearance at the BBC Promenade Concerts in the Royal Albert Hall.

Her discography reflects her wide-ranging repertoire and includes thirty-five recordings,
ranging from Bruch and Brahms to Karlowicz and Arvo Pärt. Tasmin’s recording of all
four Delius Violin Sonatas with Piers Lane won the prized Diapason d’Or. In March
2009 she released the disc ‘Partners in Time’, her follow-up to the Naked Violin, and in
Autumn 2012 the long-awaited recording of the Elgar Violin Concerto on the Chandos
label.

Tasmin Little is an Ambassador for the Prince’s Foundation for Children and the Arts,
is a Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, is a President of the European
String Teachers Association, an Ambassador for Youth Music, and holds Honorary
Degrees from the Universities of Bradford, Leicester, Hertfordshire and the City of
London. In 2009 she received the Gold Badge Award for services to music and in 2012
was appointed OBE, also for services to music.

Tasmin plays a 1757 Guadagnini violin and has on loan from the Royal Academy of
Music, the ‘Regent’ Stradivarius of 1708.

Martin Roscoe has developed close links with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the Manchester Camerata. He has played as a soloist under many of the world's leading conductors, including Simon Rattle, Kent Nagano, Libor Pešek, Luciano Berio, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Andrew Litton and Mark Wigglesworth. He gives regular recitals at the Wigmore Hall. Roscoe has appeared in BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts on six occasions and has made over 300 broadcasts with the BBC. Before becoming a teacher at the Guildhall School, Roscoe had held positions at the Royal Northern College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music. He is the artistic director of the Beverley Chamber Music Festival and the Ribble Valley International Piano Week. He has been granted an honorary Doctorate of Music by the University of Hull.

Further details by contacting Denise Kantor at Kantor Concert Management & PR