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The CD C. Hubert H. Parry: The Sonatas for Violin and Piano is now
available on the label Radegund Records (RR CD018-01), priced at £11.99,
plus postage and packing costs of £1.00.
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If you would like to
order a CD through this site, please click here for the ‘Purchase’ page. Alternatively, the recording is also available from Amazon.co.uk and
as a download from iTunes.
The CD is distributed in the USA by CDBaby.com.
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Rupert Luck studied
the violin with James Coles before reading Music at Cambridge University,
where he was an Instrumental Exhibitioner. After receiving his
first degree, he was awarded a postgraduate scholarship to continue
his studies with the eminent teacher Simon Fischer and thereafter
won a Distinction for his degree of Master of Music. He made
his concerto debut at the age of eleven and since then has appeared
as soloist and recitalist throughout Britain and Europe as well as
receiving masterclasses from Felix Andrievski, Professor Zakhar Bron,
Ernst Kovacik, Yehudi Menuhin and Krysia Osostowicz. Recent
performances have included venues in Birmingham, Cambridge, Canterbury,
Cheltenham, Durham, London, Oxford, Warwick and Winchester as well
as appearances in France, Germany, Switzerland and the USA.
In September 2007 he gave the Holst Birthday Celebration Recital,
an annual event hosted by the Trustees of the composer’s Birthplace
Museum, when he included in his programme works for viola played on
Holst’s own instrument.
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As a chamber
musician, his performances include radio recordings for the BBC and
the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation as well as concert appearances
alongside the soprano Jessye Norman and the jazz saxophonist Barbara
Thomson. Appearances with his piano trio, the Theophilus, including
their London debut in June 2002 at St Martin-in-the-Fields and a concert
tour of Cuba the following November, attracted much commendation.
More recently, he has worked with the pianist Vassily Lobanov and
the cellist Claus Kanngiesser, both professors at the Hochschule für
Musik in Cologne, and has also collaborated with the highly-regarded
violinist and composer Simos Papanas, of whose ‘Suite for George Demertzis’
he gave the UK première in London in December 2006. In October
2008 he gave the world première of a Violin Sonata written specially
for him by Stephen Matthews, and which he is scheduled to record early
in 2010; and a commission from the composer Bennett Zon is currently
in progress. Other future engagements include a concert tour
of the Netherlands in November 2009; an appearance at the 2010 English
Music Festival; and a recital at the National Concert Hall, Dublin,
also in 2010.
As well as his busy schedule as a soloist and chamber
musician, Rupert is establishing a reputation as a writer and speaker
on the performing aspects of music. In May last year he gave
a lecture-recital at University College London on the parallels between
J. S. Bach’s Partita in D minor and the ‘Suite for George Demertzis’
by Simos Papanas; an article on Bliss’s ‘Theme and Cadenza’ for violin
was recently published by The Arthur Bliss Society; and a paper on
Parry’s Violin Sonatas appeared in the British Music Society Newsletter
in June 2008. He has recently been invited to conduct a seminar
for the Music Faculty of Cambridge University on ‘Practical Approaches
to Performance’, which will take place during the coming academic
year. With the kind permission of the Royal College of Music
and of Dr Anthony Wilson, he is currently preparing a performing edition
of the unpublished Violin Sonatas by Walford Davies, the manuscripts
of which are housed in the RCM Library Archive.
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Daniel Swain read Music at St Anne’s College, Oxford
before taking up a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music
with Michael Dussek and Michael Young. He graduated in 2005
with the prestigious Dip. RAM Award as well as the ‘Vice-Principal’s
Award for Excellence’. Until September 2007 he held a
position as Shinn Fellow at the Royal Academy.
Daniel performs
regularly throughout the UK and abroad. He has performed in
such venues as London’s Wigmore, Cadogan, Queen Elizabeth and Steinway
Halls, and the churches of St Martin-in-the-Fields and St James’s,
Piccadilly. He recently made a return visit to Sweden and Norway
with the Swedish cellist Erik Jedvik. Daniel has performed with
internationally acclaimed artists such as cellists Alexander Baillie,
Alice Neary and Leonid Gorokhov, the tenor Daniel Norman, and violinist
Hideko Udagawa. He also performs regularly in venues around
the UK as a ‘Live Music Now!’ Fellowship Artist.
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Daniel has won numerous awards and prizes for his work
with singers and instrumentalists, including major awards from the
MBF and the Craxton Memorial Fund. He was a recent finalist
in the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe Duo Prize and also recipient
of the 2007 Royal Overseas League Parnell Award and JBR Trophy for
accompanists.
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