Rowena Calvert - Cello

Biography

ROWENA CALVERT, BMus (Hons) PGDip (Double Distinction) CELLIST. DOB 23-08-83

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"...the engaging and charismatic cellist Rowena Calvert has a degree of star quality that makes even such familiar fare as the Falla Spanish Songs...feel like newly polished gems."
Paul Fowles - Classical Guitar Magazine 2007

Rowena studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School with Leonid Gorokhov where she performed in the Kronberg Cello Festival in Germany and the UNESCO celebrations in Paris. She won the Jellineck Award for Young Soloists and had masterclasses with masters such as Rostropovich, Steven Isserlis and Bernard Greenhouse. In this time she performed as a soloist in the Wigmore Hall and the Royal Festival Hall and performed concertos with many orchestras throughout the UK including the London Mozart Players.

She went on to the Royal Academy of Music where she studied with Paul Watkins and was a National String Finalist of BBC Young Musicians 2002. Then after half a year in India, where she performed for the British Council in Mumbai, collaborated with Indian classical musicians and did her television premier of the Vivaldi Double concerto in Kolkata, she returned to the UK to study with Hannah Roberts at the Royal Northern College of Music.

After graduating with a first degree (honours) and receiving 100% in her undergraduate final recital she was awarded the Leonard Rose Award 2006 and the Sir John Barbirolli Prize and the RNCM Gold Medal. Since then she has won a further thirteen awards for her solo playing. She has recently graduated and received a double distinction for her PGDip as well as the RNCM Gold Medal 2008.

As a chamber musician she has performed in the Wigmore Hall, the Linbury Studio Theatre(Royal Opera House)and for the Thai Royal Family in Bangkok. She has been coached by Yehudi Menuhin and Mstislav Rostropovich and is a winner of the Contemporary Music Award 2007 and the Weil Prize 2007 (RNCM). She is a founding member of the Ruggieri Piano Trio. Her cello and harp duo, the Calvert-Turner Duo www.calvertturnerduo.co.uk , released their debut CD (El Pano Moruno) in 2007.

She has recently been invited to be part of the Countess of Munster Recital Scheme and is currently looking for a sponsor to help with the purchase of a new instrument. www.rowenacalvert.com

Repertoire

SONATAS

Bach Da Gamba in D major BWV 1028
Boccherini C major; G major
Beethoven G minor; A major; C major; D major
Rachmaninov Op.19
Debussy Sonata
Shostakovich Op. 40
Cesar Franck A major

UNACCOMPANIED

Bach Cello Suite No 1 in G major; No 2 in D minor; No 3 in C major; No 4 in E flat Major; No 6 in D major
George Crumb Sonata for Solo Cello
Paul Hindemith Sonata opus 25
Nigel Clarke Spestroscope
Britten Suite opus 72

SHORTER RECITAL PIECES

Frescobaldi/Cassado Toccata
Bach Arioso
Rachmaninov Vocalise
Manuel Da Falla Suite Populaire
Schumann Adagio and Allegro
Glazunov Chant Du Menestral; Serenade Espagnole
Saint Saens The Swan; Allegro Appasionato
Faure Elegie and Berceuse
Popper Spinning Song; Dance of the Elves; Hungarian Rhapsody Martinu/Rossini Variations
Casals Song of the Birds

CONCERTOS

Haydn C Major No 1; D major No2
Davidov No 2
Elgar Op 8
Dvorak Op 104
Saint Saens No 1 Opus 33
Lalo
Shostakovich No 1 Op 107
Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme
Schumann Op 129
Brahms Double

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