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MICHAEL HARROLD ARTIST MANAGEMENT
is known for the quality of the classical Artists managed and represented. Our particularly close working relationships, both with client Promoters and performing Artists, enables remarkably creative relationships to be forged, transcending some traditional lines of demarcation and resulting in concert performances which realise the hopes and intentions of all concerned. Our Artist List gives Promoters a wide range of choice, being more a guide to possibilities than a statement of limitations. We are always prepared to discuss Artists' fees, as they are keen to perform.
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Malcolm Binns' Wigmore Hall recital with the World première of John McCabe's "Epithalamium"
at London's Wigmore Hall is commented upon
(Page uploaded 09th July 2007).
Sharona Joshua - renowned for historically-informed performance on keyboard instruments -
is a welcome addition to the roster (Page uploaded 09th May 2007).
Malcolm Binns to give World première of new work by John McCabe at London's Wigmore Hall
on the Eighth of July 2007 (Page uploaded 19th January 2007).
Nimbus Records are to re-release Malcolm Binns' classic Lyrita recordings of piano concerti by
Rawsthorne, Stanford and Sterndale Bennett (Page uploaded 02nd August 2006).
Malcolm Binns' highly-acclaimed Decca recordings of the complete Beethoven piano sonatas -
played on period instruments - are to be re-released progressively under licence by Explore Records,
together with a disc of sonatas by Hummel. (Page uploaded 02nd August 2006).
William Robert Allenby (Baritone) joins the roster with a well-established career in concert, oratorio,
opera and chamber music. (Page uploaded 26th July 2006).
Australian-born pianist Rosemary Tuck joins the roster and launches her second recording of music by
William Vincent Wallace this month. (Page uploaded 17th November 2005).
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Ensembles
ARBOREA MUSICA & FRIENDS
ARUNDO CLARINET QUARTET
ENGLISH BRASS ENSEMBLE
CHAMELEON BRASS
MELOS ENSEMBLE OF LONDON
GERVASE de PEYER
(Clarinet)
& GWENNETH PRYOR
(Piano)
VOCES STRING QUARTET
GERARD McDONALD (Director)
Sacred and secular chamber cantatas, authentic arrangements of concerti, plus trio- and solo sonatas by Baroque composers -
from Albinoni to Zelenka - on superb period instruments.
"The acclaimed period instrument ensemble". (THE SCOTSMAN, Edinburgh)
"The excellent Arborea Musica & Friends". (THE SCOTSMAN, Edinburgh)
"Here were players who knew what they were about, sharing an assured sense of style and commitment.
Don't miss them". (THE SCOTSMAN, Edinburgh)
"Excellent... Consistently enjoyable" (THE HERALD, Glasgow)
"Splendid series of concerts" (THE EVENING NEWS, Edinburgh)
"The jewel in the crown of the fringe" (RADIO FORTH, Edinburgh)
JANET SPOTSWOOD, JILL SADLER, JOANNA ESTALL (Clarinets),
ANGELA CRISPE (Bass Clarinet).
A stylish ensemble of highly-experienced solo, ensemble and orchestral musicians,
adept at lifting spirits with a delightful repertoire of classical and lighter music.
PAUL ARCHIBALD (Director)
All the members of this fine brass group are highly-reputed section principals drawn from the major British orchestras,
directed by a former member of the legendary Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
IAN STOTT (Director)
Renaissance to Twentieth Century Brass
performed by young players of distinction.
GERVASE de PEYER (Director).
World-class chamber ensemble directed by legendary clarinettist.
Gervase de Peyer has enjoyed a most distinguished career which has spanned some fifty years, and now stands demonstrably as the foremost exponent of the Clarinet, and one of the finest musicians alive. Gervase de Peyer is now the World's most recorded clarinettist, and was co-founder of the Melos Ensemble of London, of which his musical partner of thirty years, Gwenneth Pryor, is also a member.
"Extraordinary and magical...vivid characterisation and seamless technique".
(CLARINET & SAXOPHONE SOCIETY JOURNAL, Sept. 1998).
"Gwenneth Pryor matches de Peyer's phrasing and delivery to perfection...a partnership of equals".
(THE TIMES, London).
BUJOR PRELIPCEAN, ANTON DIACONU (Violins), CONSTANTIN STANCIU (Viola), DAN PRELIPCEAN ('cello)
A string quartet of real musical maturity, in their twenty-seventh year together, the Voces String Quartet are in popular demand in many countries and have appeared at such major festivals as Bayreuth,Bratislava, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Salonica, Salzburg, Siena and Turin. They also occupy a prominent and regular place in the George Enescu Festival in Bucharest. 1998 saw the ensemble make their United Kingdom début at the Wigmore Hall in London,where they were joined on the platform by Martin Lovett (formerly 'cellist of the Amadeus String Quartet) for performances of the Brahms F Minor (arr. for strings only by Sebastian Brown, after Brahms' original sketches) and the Schubert C Major quintets before an appreciative capacity audience.
"Led by the acutely thoughtful and calmly virtuosic Bujor Prelipcean, the Voces Quartet plays with the telepathy and bravura of long and successful partnership....a calm assertion of musical authority .... the parts interlocked like a gleaming clock mechanism".
(HAMPSTEAD & HIGHGATE EXPRESS, London).
"L'interprétation du Voces témoigne une grande maturité, une maîtrise émouvente..."
("LE DAUPHINÉ LIBÉRÉ" - Avignon).
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Keyboard
JULIE AINSCOUGH
MALCOLM BINNS
SHARONA JOSHUA
ROSEMARY TUCK
ÓSCAR CANDENDO ZABALA
GULLIERMO DIEZ ARNÁIZ
ANDREW PARNELL
(Organ, Conductor)
This English organist has received critical acclaim for her performances of organ music from the late Renaissance and the Baroque eras, and has particular affinity with the music of the Spanish, French and North German schools. She is also highly-reputed as a performer of organ music by the major French romantic and Twentieth Century composers - César Franck and Jehan Alain in particular.
"...a carefully-articulated performance of real stature and authority..."
(DORKING ADVERTISER, Surrey)
(Piano)
Malcolm Binns' distinguished career marks him as one of the finest British pianists of this Century. He is renowned for his flawless technique, in which is found a joyous balance between virtuosity, power and musical finesse. He has worked with many leading orchestras and conductors around the World (including Boulez, Boult, Dorati, Haitink and Rattle), and he broadcasts and records extensively. He is the professional pianist's pianist par excellence.
"No praise can be too high for the playing of Binns, whose fleetness of finger and poetic sensibility are a constant source of delight".
(THE GRAMOPHONE, London)
(Harpsichord, Fortepiano)
Sharona Joshua is another welcome addition to the Artist Roster. She has proved to be a versatile performer, at home equally with such diverse instruments as Renaissance piano, clavicembalum, dulcemelos, virginals, chamber organ, harpsichord and both Classical and Romantic period fortepianos. Her work has included a wide range of radio and concert appearances, performing internationally as soloist and chamber musician.
"The balance between the emotions and the intellect were set with unfailing good taste throughout this recital, aided by Sharona Joshua’s alert fortepiano accompaniments and impassioned contributions to such miniature dramas as Der Jungling und der Tod and Der Zwerg".
(THE INDEPENDENT, London)
(Piano)
Pianist Rosemary Tuck was born in Sydney and studied with John Winther in Canberra, before pursuing advanced studies with Walter Hautzig at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and Andrzej Esterhazy, a pupil of Neuhaus in Moscow. She represented Australia in a series of recitals in the United States under the auspices of the American-Australian Bicentennial Foundation, including a recital at Carnegie Hall. She has given recitals in the Sydney Opera House, at the South Bank Centre in London and St John’s Smith Square. She appeared at the Aarhus Festival in Denmark in the presence of Queen Margrethe II.
"To all these challenges and more the talented Rosemary Tuck is fully equipped. She relishes the demands, and is stylistically apt and full of colour, vivacity and lyricism. How appropriate that in a pleasing acoustic in the Large Room at City Hall one of Waterford’s most quixotic, far travelled, and talented sons has come home at last".
(JONATHAN WOOLF - MusicWeb, September 2002)
(Organ)
This young Spaniard, a protégé of some of the foremost organ pedagogues, is recognised as one of the truly noteworthy organists of his generation in Europe.
"Óscar plays like a dream" (MONTSERRAT TORRENT, Barcelona).
(Organ)
Gulliermo Diez Arnáiz is Assistant Maestro de Capilla of Burgos
Cathedral and one of a number of present-day Spanish organists of real ability.
(Organ, Harmonium, Harpsichord, Conductor)
The able and highly-respected former Assistant Director of Music at St. Albans Cathedral - now based in East Anglia - is also a versatile musician in other fields.
"Andrew Parnell excelled in his control and direction of the large forces in front of him."
(SACRED & SECULAR)
"...beautifully delicate organ playing from Andrew Parnell".
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Vocal / Choral
WILLIAM ROBERT ALLENBY
BURGUNDIAN CADENCE
PAMPLONA CATHEDRAL CHOIR
Baritone: Oratorio, Concert and Chamber Music
The first solo voice represented by this agency in many years, this British baritone has a rich and well-focussed voice, coupled with a mature sense of performance founded on a superb technique. William Allenby is available through us for chamber recitals, concerts and oratorio.
"...a baritone voice of fine quality throughout its compass and capable of giving the authentic thrill in the upper range...his diction, true feeling for and moulding of long phrases, and climaxes in proportion to the moods, were excellent."
(Douglas Bowen, DAILY MAIL, Hull).
RUPERT DAMERELL (Counter-tenor)
SIMON BIAZECK (Tenor)
MATTHEW WOOLHOUSE (Tenor)
DAMIAN O'KEEFFE (Baritone)
Virtuoso "a capella" vocal quartet specialising in the music, both sacred and secular, of the 14th and 15th centuries.
"...the fine early music group. The performances were surely exemplary..." (MUSICAL OPINION, London).
PADRE AURELIO SAGASETA (Maestro de Capilla)
A cathedral choral tradition dating from 1206.
The singers of this mixed adult choir are accompanied by a chamber orchestra or by harp, viola da gamba and organ. Their musicality, spirituality and very able Maestro de Capilla made a deep impression on audiences at their 1995 concerts in London (St. John's, Smith Square) and Oxford (Exeter College Chapel). They offer programmes including Gregorian plainchant, Renaissance polyphony and music from the Baroque era up to the present day. They like particularly to perform a concert which illustrates the fascinating musical history and traditions of Pamplona Cathedral itself.
JUDY MARTIN (Director)
Choral ensemble
Voces Sacrae performs and records in association with Oxford University Press, promoting new choral repertoire from several OUP "house" composers - most recently Michael Berkeley, Bob Chilcott, Michael Finnissy and John Rutter. The ensemble undertook its first international tour to Sydney, Australia, in the summer of 1998.
"A valid rival to The Tallis Scholars" (CHURCH TIMES, London).
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Woodwind
GERARD McDONALD
GERVASE de PEYER
(Baroque Flute, Baroque Oboe, Oboe d'Amore, Recorders)
One of only three professional woodwind players in Britain who offer this
instrumental combination, Gerard McDonald was responsible for setting up the Early Music Faculty at the Royal Academy of Music, and was the first "Early" musician to hold a teaching Fellowship there. He has made over twenty appearances at London's South Bank Centre in concerto and chamber music performances on all three instruments, and has toured extensively in England, with Cambridge Baroque Camerata, and France, with Badinage.
"A virtuoso soloist of exciting stature". (BIRMINGHAM POST)
"The Baroque flute playing ... was pure delight". (THE SCOTSMAN, Edinburgh)
(Clarinet, Conductor)
Gervase de Peyer has enjoyed a most distinguished career which has spanned some fifty years, and is demonstrably the foremost exponent of the Clarinet, and one of the finest musicians alive today.
"Mr. de Peyer is now the greatest clarinettist appearing before the public. His playing was so beautiful, his tone so seamless and his musical instincts so unerring that everything else last night palled in comparison". (THE TIMES, London) Top of page
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Conductor
STEFAN HOFKES
I can speak warmly of the extraordinary qualities of Stefan Hofkes. I have rarely seen a conductor with such a remarkable rehearsal technique...thus getting complete collaboration (and) immediate contact. ...He is a fine musician and his concerts were communicative to the public.
(Conductor, Pianist)
Stefan Hofkes was born in 1972 in the Netherlands, where he studied conducting and piano at the Utrecht Conservatoire. He continued his conducting studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with Christopher Seaman and received the Ricordi Conducting Award in 1997. He combines the positions of Musical Director of the Reading Symphony Orchestra, the Bristol Concert Orchestra and Brent Opera with professional conducting work in Europe. Stefan is Principal Guest Conductor of the Utrecht International Music Festival.
(JERROLD RUBENSTEIN, Concertmaster (Théatre Royal de la Monnaie 1968-75 and Orchestre National de Belgique 1975-93).
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Contact details
Please contact Michael Harrold Artist Management for more information or to inquire about the availability of specific artists or ensembles. We can be contacted via E-mail at management-at-angelus.co.uk. We may be contacted also by telephone on (+44) (0)1372 375728 but we no longer maintain a fax facility because of dwindling demand for it; you may write to us, however, by conventional "snail-mail" post addressed to:
Value-Added Tax (VAT/TVA) may be applicable to artists' fees: this will be clarified in fee negotiations. Travel expenses and subsistence allowances may be requested if long journeys to and from engagements are involved. Our office, located at home, can respond to your enquiries and needs outside normal hours if necessary, but if possible please try to contact us during our normal business hours (which are Monday-Thursday 0930-1830, Friday 0930-1730 UK time). We speak English and French, plus some Spanish. We can usually deal with written enquiries in Dutch, Flemish, French, German, Italian and Spanish if allowed a modicum of time.
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