 KATIE STILLMAN ~ violin
SIMON LANE ~ piano
Canadian violinist Katie Stillman won the prestigious Grand Prize at the Canadian Music Competitions when she was sixteen, and was subsequently presented with Radio Canada’s Young Artists Performance Prize. Following the award of an International Scholarship from the Associated Boards, Katie came to England to study at the Royal Northern College of Music with Wen Zhou Li. She gained her Masters degree with distinction from the RNCM in 2004, and was awarded her Postgraduate Diploma with distinction the following year.
A keen chamber musician, Katie leads the Barbirolli String Quartet who have been awarded the Guildhall Artists Fellowship and were also Tunnell Trust winners in 2008. Katie’s recent solo engagements have included a concerto performance with the London Mozart Players. She is very grateful for the support of the MBF (Myra Hess Award), the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, the Craxton Memorial Trust and the Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation.
Simon Lane leads a diverse musical life, performing with both instrumentalists and singers at major venues and festivals throughout the UK and abroad. In 2008 he completed a postgraduate course at the Royal Academy of Music in London where he studied with Michael Dussek and Julius Drake.
Simon has a number of regular duo partners including violinists Katie Stillman and Naoko Miyamoto, mezzo soprano Karina Lucas and cellist Philip Higham with whom he has been selected for the Tillett Trust Young Artists Platform, Park Lane Group New Year Series and a Tunnell Trust Award.
Katie and Simon met whilst studying at the RNCM, and won the Helen Porthouse Paganini Prize together in 2005. After their debut appearance at the Wigmore Hall, Geoffrey Norris of the Daily Telegraph wrote of their performance:
‘....combined tenderness, wistful nostalgia and red-blooded passion in an interpretation of terrific distinction and compelling force’
They later returned to the Wigmore Hall on several occasions, and in 2007 made their recital duo debuts at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester and in the Purcell Room. Other recent engagements include St. John’s Smith Square, St. James’s Piccadilly and St. George’s Bristol.
PROGRAMME:
SCHUBERT: Sonatina in G minor,
D. 408
STRAUSS: Violin Sonata in E flat major, TrV
151
BRITTEN: Three Pieces from the Suite, Op. 6
- March, Lullaby, Waltz
BEETHOVEN: Sonata No. 9 in A major, Op. 47,
Kreutzer
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