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Four Bagatelles 2008 Free And Easy by Clare Hammond

Biographie de l'artiste pour Clare Hammond

Her Most Recent Disc Release ‘Etude’ Has Received Unanimous Critical Praise For Its “unfaltering Bravura And Conviction” Gramophone While The BBC Music Magazine Stated That “this Array Of Wizardry Is Not For The Faint Hearted”. ‘Etude’ And Hammond’s Previous Disc Of Music By Andrzej And Roxanna Panufnik ‘Reflections’ Have Been Featured On BBC Radio 3’s ‘In Tune’ And ‘CD Review’ And On Radio In Switzerland Sweden The Netherlands The US And Canada. In 2014 Hammond Gave A Panufnik Centenary Tour Of Poland With A Series Of Recital And Concerto Performances Under The Auspices Of The British Council’s ‘Artists’ International Development Fund’. Her Debut Recital At The ‘Chopin And His Europe Festival’ In Warsaw Was Recorded For Broadcast On Polish Radio. Hammond Also Co-Curated And Managed The Festival ‘Panufnik 100 A Family Celebration’ With The Brodsky Quartet At Kings Place In London Which Was Hailed As The “culmination Of This Year’s Andrzej Panufnik Centenary” The Telegraph . Contemporary Music Forms An Important Part Of Hammond’s Work. She Has Given 24 World Premieres Including Those Of Major Works By Composers Robert Saxton Edwin Roxburgh John McCabe And Arlene Sierra. In 2015 She Premiered And Recorded Concertos For Trumpet And Piano By Geoffrey Gordon And Toby Young With Simon Desbruslais And The English Symphony Orchestra To Be Released On Signum Records. An Active Chamber Musician Hammond Is A Member Of The Odysseus Piano Trio Alongside Violinist Sara Trickey And Cellist Gregor Riddell. She Has Also Worked With The Brodsky Endellion Badke Dante And Piatti Quartets And In Duos With Henning Kraggerud Andrew Kennedy Jennifer Pike Philippe Graffin And Lawrence Power. In November 2015 She Made Her Film Debut As The Younger Version Of Maggie Smith's Character 'Miss Shepherd' In The Alan Bennett Film Adaptation The Lady In The Van Directed By Nick Hytner. Hammond Completed A BA At Cambridge University Where She Obtained A Double First In Music And Undertook Postgraduate Study With Ronan O’Hora At The Guildhall School Of Music & Drama And With Professor Rhian Samuel At City University London. She Completed A Doctorate On Twentieth-Century Left-Hand Piano Concertos In 2012 And Is In Demand As A Speaker Regularly Giving Presentations For Research Series At Universities Across The UK. In 2014 She Was Paired With French Pianist Anne Queffélec On The Philip Langridge Mentoring Scheme Run By The Royal Philharmonic Society. Hammond Is Grateful For The Support Of The Fidelio Charitable Trust Help Musicians UK Stradivari Trust Ambache Charitable Trust British Korean Society Chandos Memorial Trust Vernon Ellis Foundation Polish Cultural Institute RVW Trust British Council Arts Council England John S Cohen Foundation The Britten-Pears Foundation And The Hinrichsen Foundation.
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