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Raised in Sussex, Rebecca Knight
gained a scholarship to study 'cello and piano at the Junior department
of the Royal Academy of Music aged 14, and won her first concerto
opportunity with the Junior Academy Symphony Orchestra in 1997. She
is a graduate of the Guildhall School, where she studied with 'cellist
Louise Hopkins. As a chamber musician she has given recitals in the
LSO Discovery Series, the IMAI Festival Maine, USA, the Paxos
International Festival, Oxford Lieder Festival, and has attended
masterclasses at Prussia Cove. Always keen to approach new music, she
has given the European premier of chamber works by Chen Yi in the BBC
Proms, appeared at the Wigmore Hall with the Guildhall New Music
Ensemble, and recently performed in an Endymion Ensemble concert of
contemporary music for 8 'celli with soloist Rohan de Saram at the
Purcell Room.
Rebecca has a particular interest in Russian music, language and culture, and has spent time in St. Petersburg learning Russian with professors from the Institute of Culture and Arts. She also plays with a chamer ensemble she has established specialising in Russian 20th century repertoire for unusual instrument combinations, called the Leon Bakst Collective. |
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