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The Jigsaw Players
Ellie Fagg, violin
 Ellie
was a foundation scholar at the Royal College of Music under Yossi
Zivoni, from where she graduated in 2005 with First Class Honours. As a
soloist, Ellie has performed recitals in venues across the UK, most
recently at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, and concertos with
orchestras including the Amadeus Orchestra, Hertfordshire Philharmonic,
JRAM Symphony Orchestra and the National Children’s Chamber Orchestra.
Ellie is looking forward to many recitals in 2007/2008 across the UK
with her award winning duo partner, Alasdair Beatson, due to being
awarded a place on the prestigious Countess of Munster Recital Scheme
for their next season. In 2001, Ellie was appointed leader of the
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, after having been a member
for five years, and during her undergraduate at the RCM led many of the
orchestras and ensembles. She is now a very busy freelance violinist in
London, playing with many of the major symphony and chamber orchestras
including the LSO, LCO, LPO, European Camerata and the Philharmonia as
well as guest leading smaller local orchestras.
Her musical life extends far and wide. She is an active supporter of
contemporary music, collaborating with composers such as Simon Speare
and John Cameron and is the solo violinist of the vibrant and eclectic
Avenue A ensemble who have just recorded their first album. In 2005,
Ellie won the ‘Emily English Scholarship’ awarded by the Musicians
Benevolent Fund to the most outstanding violinist heard at audition. She
has just completed her postgraduate studies at the RCM, under Yossi
Zivoni, as an Associated Board Scholar which included 5 months study
under Helmut Zehetmeir at the Mozarteum, Salzburg. This was all made
possible with generous sponsorship from the Countess of Munster Musical
Trust and from the Philharmonia Martin Musical Award scheme.
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Tom Norris,
violin
 Tom
Norris has been a member of the London Symphony Orchestra since 1997 and
holds the Co-Principal 2nd Violin position. Aside from his very busy
schedule with
the LSO, Tom leads the Vuillaume Quartet, formed in 2001, who give many
concerts around London as part of the LSO Discovery programme.
Tom was born in Kent in 1971, and attended Chetham's School of Music,
before gaining his performance diploma from the Guildhall School of
Music and Drama. After a period of further study at the Banff Centre for
the Arts, in Canada, he was invited to join the Winnipeg Symphony
Orchestra as Principal Second Violin. He performed regularly in Canada
as a chamber musician and as a soloist with the WSO, before returning to
the UK to join the LSO. Tom is also a singer and songwriter and is in
the midst of recording a very exciting debut solo album. For more
information about Tom please visit:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=41993798
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Emmanuella
Reiter, viola
 Born
into a family of musicians in Jerusalem in 1981, Emmanuella Reiter began
her musical studies at the age of three. After lessons in violin and
piano at the Conservatoire National de Région de Nice, France,
Emmanuella entered the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, USA. In
January 2001, discovering her passion for the viola, Ms Reiter entered
the class of Kim Kashkashian at the New England Conservatory in Boston.
There she received her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees, and served for
three years as teaching assistant to Kim Kashkashian.
Emmanuella has participated in many festivals, has studied and played in
masterclasses with Karen Tuttle, Yuri Bashmet, Jean Sulem, Nobuko Imai
and Roberto Diaz. She has also performed with artists such as Peter
Frankl, Michel Strauss, Philippe Berrod and Vladimir Mendelssohn.
Emmanuella has frequently performed solo and chamber music in France,
England, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, and the United States. As a
concerto soloist she has performed with orchestras in England, Italy,
France and the U.S.A. An experienced chamber musician, she has been a
part of prize winning string quartets. Miss Reiter has recorded with
Arsis in the U.S.A., Hessischer Rundfunk in Germany and has appeared on
Boston’s WGBH classical music radio. In 2005, Emmanuella recorded the
duet for violin and viola by Zigmund Schul in the Dvořák Hall, Prague,
as part of the Terezin Music Anthology.
Her passion for teaching has recently led her to writing a thesis: Karen
Tuttle’s heritage: The Theory and Practice of Co-ordination, a technique
developed by Karen Tuttle, a pupil and assistant of William Primrose, to
help prevent and overcome playing-related injury as well as a way to
express musical line, gesture and sonority while playing the viola.
Emmanuella has been based in London since the summer 2006 and has
recently been appointed in the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
For more information about Emmanuella please visit:
www.emmanuellareiter.com
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Oliver
Coates, cello
 Oliver
Coates attained the highest degree result in the Royal Academy of
Music’s history and went on to achieve an MPhil with distinction at
Oxford (New College). He will tour as principal cello in the London
Sinfonietta this summer and also plays in the Linden Trio, The House of
Bedlam and new music ensemble RADIUS. He is currently artistic director
of Sounds Underground.
Oliver performs concertos and recitals around the world and has given
three solo tours of Japan. He was a winner of the 2006 Philip & Dorothy
Green Award for Young Concert Artists, awarded by Making Music and at
the 2007 Kirckman Concert Society Auditions, which leads to his solo
debut at the Wigmore Hall in March 2009. He has been awarded a Myra Hess
Trust Award, and in both 2005 and 2004 he was given a ‘Star Award’ by
the Countess of Munster Musical Trust. He has written and improvised
with Massive Attack and performs with mira calix on Warp Records. He has
worked with Birtwistle, Adès, Gubaidulina, Harvey and Lindberg on their
music. New cello music is being written for him by Emily Hall and Larry
Goves. He also collaborates with the pianist Sarah Nicolls and Sound
Intermedia.
This season he appeared at the South Bank, Wigmore Hall and Barbican a
number of times, with the Endymion Ensemble, RADIUS, London Sinfonietta
and he is a soloist at the Aldeburgh, Faster than Sound, Corsham and
Arundel Festivals.
"Coates is a
master of his instrument, who had me transfixed for the duration of the
performance. This was virtuosity in the extreme – and he made it seem
easy. He is, without a doubt, someone who has a dazzling career ahead of
him."
Carla Rees, review of Wigmore Hall Concert, January 08 for MusicWeb
International
"A remarkable musician, reminiscent of a young Tortelier or
Rostropovich, who has the great gift of playing from his heart and not
just from his cello." Henry Kelly, journalist and broadcaster
For more information about Olliver please visit
www.olivercoates.com
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Andrew
Joyce, cello
 Andrew
Joyce was born in Norwich in 1982 and began studying the cello at the
age of 7 with Barry Wright. At the age of 11 he was awarded a place at
the Purcell School of Music, where his teachers were Amanda Truelove and
Michal Kaznowski (Maggini Quartet). Andrew continued his studies at the
Royal College of Music as a Scholar supported by South Square Trust &
Frederick Johnston Awards and graduated with a BMus (Hons) and a PG Dip
with Distinction. Whilst there, he won several prizes and was principal
cellist of all the major RCM ensembles working with many eminent
musicians including Bernard Haitink & Gordan Nikolitch. He was also
accepted on the LSO String Experience Scheme and in July 2004 was
awarded the PROMIS award for the most outstanding potential shown on the
Scheme. Having been awarded the DAAD Scholarship, Andrew went on to
study in Lübeck with Troels Svane.
Andrew has taken part in masterclasses both in Britain & abroad with
Alexander Baillie, David Geringas, Bernard Greenhouse, Alexander Rudin,
Karine Georgian, Natalia Gutman, Leonid Gorokhov, the Kopelman Quartet &
the Takacs Quartet.
Andrew has a busy performance schedule giving concerts across the
country both as soloist and chamber musician. Highlights include a
performance with Rainer Sonne (Concert Master of Berlin Philharmonic)
and Igor Sulyga (Kopelman Quartet) and a tour to Costa Rica with the
Covent Garden Soloists (Royal Opera House). Andrew has been on trial for
Principal Cello of Northern Sinfonia & with the London Symphony
Orchestra and freelances regularly with the London Symphony Orchestra,
London Philharmonic Orchestra and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
For more information about Andrew please visit
www.andrewjoyce.co.uk
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We have a lot of dreams for
the future, and here are a few of them...
GETTING A PIANO
Christ Church does not own a grand piano, and we are going to need one
very quickly in order for us to be able to bring you a huge range of
chamber music. A new piano costs about £25 000, and that's not quite in
our budget yet! Do you have a piano in the living room? Do you never use
it? Would you be willing to loan it to Christ Church? Please let us know
if you do!
CHILDREN CONCERTS
We will be having 2 concerts a year which will be for children of all
ages. The Jigsaw Players will adapt one of the evening concerts for
children, they will interact with them, they will explain their
instruments and the children will have a chance to ask questions.
Another, on 2 other occasions children who play an instrument will be
able to perform in a concert reserved for them. It's the opportunity to
start playing in public and getting the cameras out!
AMATEUR WEEKEND
You play an instrument? You want to play chamber music? Then this is for
you. We will be having a concert during the season where YOU are the
performer. We will be auctioning out a weekend of coachings with members
of the Jigsaw Players and at the end of the weekend, you will be
performing. As a finale for the concert, we will all play together
(depending on the instruments we have of course!)
FESTIVAL WEEK
We would like to have a week of concerts: 6 days, 6 concerts,which would
be in conjunction with the Bedford Chamber Music Festival. You can find
out more about the by going to www.bedfordchambermusicfestival.com.
Young artists from the four corners of the world gather in Bedford to
perform wonderful chamber music pieces, and we want to share that with
you, our public in Wimbledon.
ESTABLISHED ARTISTS
When we have enough funding we would like to invite established artists.
We have all learnt, played with, had masterclasses with some of today's
most important artists and we would like you to be able to hear them
right here in Christ Church.
Get involved
You want to support
the Jigsaw Players? There is more than one way to do so!
DONATIONS
Like any group
or organization, we need funding! Please consider giving generously, and
if you want to know more about how we spend our donations please feel
free to contact us.
NO CASH?
You can still
help the Jigsaw Players. If you are a web designer, publicist, if you
know how to start running a corporation, if you would like to make the
cakes for the post concert reception, if you would like to be a
volunteer to pick up elderly people who could not otherwise come to the
concerts or if you have any skill which will help us get off the ground
we would like to talk to you about it. We'll appreciate any help we can
get!
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