Two of the most celebrated musicians are coming to perform in Linlithgow.
Lawrence Power and Simon Crawford-Phillips will take to the stage on April 4 at 7.30pm at Linlithgow Academy Theatre.
Their performance features as part of Linlithgow Arts Guild’s programme for 2020.
Lawrence Power is one of today’s foremost violists, in demand worldwide as a recitalist, concerto soloist and chamber music partner.
His artistry and penetrating musicianship gains him constant plaudits around the world, reflected in turn in eloquent reviews.
Over the past decade, he has become a regular guest performer with orchestras of the highest calibre, from the Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Stockholm, Bergen and Warsaw Philharmonic orchestras to the Philharmonia, BBC Scottish Symphony and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic orchestras.
In addition, as a guest soloist with the Melbourne and Adelaide Symphony orchestras, he has established a strong presence in Australia where he will return in 2018 to ‘play direct’ at the Australian National Academy of Music. Highlights in 2017-18 include his debut with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Staatsoper Kassel, Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with Daniel Hope at the Zurich Chamber Orchestra Season opening concert, as well as recitals in Dresden Music Festival, USA Savannah Festival and a concert series at London’s Kings Place.
Meanwhile Simon Crawford-Phillips has established himself an extraordinarily varied career as soloist, chamber musician and conductor.
Simon is a founding member of the Kungsbacka Piano Trio; most recently they have released two discs of Fauré chamber music for Naxos as well as performing throughout Europe. In 18/19 they begin a project to record all the Schumann piano trios for BIS.
In 2014, his piano duo together with Philip Moore, also a long-standing partnership, premiered Steve Reich’s Quartet for two pianos and two vibraphones at the Southbank, Carnegie Hall NY (listed as one of the 10 best classical performances of 2014 by New York Magazine, Kölner Philharmonie and Cité de la Musique Paris.
Performances in 2015 included the Edinburgh International Festival, for which they received glowing five-star reviews.
In June 2010, Simon was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music. Previously he has held teaching positions at the Royal Academy of Music and Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and currently teaches at the Gothenburg Academy of Music and Drama.
