|
Fenella Humphreys, in the past year alone, has given concerto and recital performances at prestigious venues including London's South Bank Centre, Cheltenham's Pump Room and the Teatro Coliseo in Buenos Aires. She was a 2006 Park Lane Group Young Artist, received Making Music's 2005 Philip and Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists, and gave a recital at the Wigmore Hall finalist in the YCAT competition. Solo and chamber performances have included broadcasts for BBC Radio 3, Classic FM, DeutschlandRadio Berlin, West-Deutsche-Rundfunk and BBC and Canadian TV as well as appearances around Europe, North and South America and Israel. Fenella recently performed the Walton concerto at the composer's home at the invitation of the Walton Trust, to open the newly built Greek Theatre, and celebrate the 80th birthday of Lady Walton. Other recent highlights include a recital at the Purcell Room as part of the Park Lane Group's 50th Anniversary series and a tour of South America with the Deutsche Kammerakademie. A busy chamber musician both in Britain and Germany, Fenella has collaborated with artists including Alexander Baillie, Hariolf Schlichtig, Pekka Kuusisto and Martin Lovett, and is regularly invited to take part in the prestigious Open Chamber Music at IMS Prussia Cove. She has participated in chamber music masterclasses with the Florestan Trio, Claus-Christian Schuster, Peter Frankl, Gordon Back, the Melos Quartet, members of Takács Quartet and Vellinger Quartet and the New Zealand String Quartet. Fenella is also in demand as orchestral leader, working regularly with the Deutsche Kammerakademie in Germany both as leader and director. Fenella received her early training from Sidney Griller CBE and Itzhak Rashkovsky whilst a scholar at the Purcell School, where she was awarded the prestigious Gertrude Hopkins Prize and Guivier Award for an outstanding contribution to the string department. She then won a scholarship to study with David Takeno at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Fenella completed her post-graduate studies as a scholar at the Robert Schumann Hochschule, Düsseldorf in Ida Bieler’s class, and was awarded the highest possible mark for both the 'Diplom' exam and the 'Konzertexamen' soloists’ diploma. At the same time she studied in Andreas Reiner's chamber music class at the Folkwang Hochschule, Essen. Masterclasses have taken Fenella as far afield as Keshet Eilon, Israel, the Schleswig Holstein Festival and the Rheinischen Streicherakademie in Germany, and IMS Prussia Cove, in Cornwall, studying among others with Pamela Frank, Lorand Fenyves, Thomas Brandis, Thomas Riebl, Steven Doane, Johannes Goritzki and Krzysztof Penderecki. You can keep up to date with Fenella's concerts at www.myspace.com/fenellahumphreys
|
||