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Annabelle Lawsonis increasingly in demand as a soloist, chamber musician, accompanist and workshop leader. Earlier this summer Annabelle was awarded a place as solo pianist on the Live Music Now! scheme, and she has recently given solo and chamber recitals in venues such as the Purcell Room, St. James' Piccadilly, Steinway Halls, King's College Chapel, Cambridge and St. Brides Fleet Street. In addition to this she is employed by P&O Cruises as a solo recitalist, and appearances as soloist in Stravinsky's Les Noces and Grainger's The Warriors, as well as performances of Mozart's Piano Concerto K466 and Bartok's 3rd Piano Concerto, emphasise her enthusiasm to explore the whole gamut of piano repertoire. Annabelle is also active as an accompanist, working with the BBC Singers and recently undertaking a recording for Signum Records of music for boys' voices and piano by Richard Rodney Bennett and Benjamin Britten. She also appears as recitalist with violinist Fenella Humphreys, 'cellist Naomi Wright and as part of a two-piano team with Robert Hunter. Having received a BA in Music and a further BMus from King's College, Cambridge in 2004, Annabelle's trio was awarded a junior Leverhulme Chamber Music Fellowship by the Royal Academy of Music, following postgraduate study at that institution. She continues to study privately with Philip Fowke, and prior to this studied with her father Peter Lawson, and Ronan O'Hora at Chetham's School of Music. Her concerto performances have included Falla's 'Nights in the Gardens of Spain', first conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier and released on CD, and subsequently with the Hallé Orchestra. Venues have included Manchester's Bridgewater Hall, the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, and the Royal Northern College of Music. Annabelle is actively involved in outreach and education work and has also written articles for publications including Rhinegold's Piano magazine. From 2004-5 Annabelle was 'pianist in residence' at the Forest School, London, and from 2005-6 she was Apprentice Music Animateur for Spitalfields Festival, London. She currently works as a pianist-animateur for the Operahouse project on youth opera projects.
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