{"id":207922,"date":"2025-05-10T17:18:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T16:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cerneabbasmusicfestival.org.uk\/Home\/?page_id=207922"},"modified":"2026-05-10T11:34:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T10:34:01","slug":"booking-2023-2-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cerneabbasmusicfestival.org.uk\/Home\/booking-2023-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"July 2026 Musicians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!--ALISDAIR-->\n<style> h1 {font-size: 18px;margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px;}\n        p {font-size: 14px;margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px;}\n    <\/style>\n        <h1 s>Alasdair Beatson, Piano<\/h1>\n        <p>\n            Scottish pianist Alasdair Beatson works prolifically as soloist and chamber musician, adept on both modern and historical instruments, and renowned as both performer and pedagogue enjoying a particular affinity with the music of Schumann and Faure. Musical collaborators include Steven Isserlis, Pieter Wispelwey, the Nash Ensemble, and Viktoria Mullova with whom he has recently recorded works for violin and fortepiano by Beethoven and Schubert on Signum as well as recording a solo piano recital Aus Wien on Pentatone.  Notable performances in 2025 include multiple appearances at the Wigmore Hall, London and performing as concerto soloist with the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam.\n        <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--Stephanie-->\n<style> h1 {font-size: 18px;margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px;}\n        p {font-size: 14px;margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px;}\n    <\/style>\n        <h1>Stephanie Gonley, Violin<\/h1>\n        <p>\nStephanie works extensively as orchestra leader, concerto soloist, soloist\/director, recitalist and chamber musician. She has appeared as soloist with many of the leading orchestras in the UK, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of Opera North, Manchester Camerata, Hall\u00e9, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and Ulster Orchestra. \nShe is the Leader of the English Chamber Orchestra and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and she performs and records a wide range of chamber music with the Nash Ensemble of London. \n\n        <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!-- Richard -->\n<style> h1 {font-size: 18px;margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px;}\n        p {font-size: 14px;margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px;}\n    <\/style>\n        <h1>\n            Richard Hosford, Clarinet\n        <\/h1>\n        <p>\n            Richard was born and brought up on a farm near Melcombe Bingham in Dorset. After studying with Patrick Shelley, of Dorset Opera fame, he went to the Royal College of Music in London. He was a founder member of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and met many of the Gaudier Ensemble there in the early 1980s. He has since been Principal Clarinet of the London Philharmonic and now the BBC Symphony Orchestra. In chamber music, he divides his time between the Gaudier and the Nash Ensembles. His recordings of the Copland Concerto, the Brahms Quintet and the Brahms Trio have all been First Choices on the BBC&#8217;s Record Review programme in recent years. He has a large class of clarinet students at the Royal College of Music, who now visit Dorset annually for a clarinet course and concerts at Ashton Farm and Cerne Abbas. Richard is a Fellow of the RCM.\n        <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!-- IRIS-->\n\n<style> h1 {font-size: 18px;margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px;}\n        p {font-size: 14px;margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px;)\n    <\/style>\n<h1>Iris Juda, Viola\n<\/h1>\n<p>\n    lris Juda was born in Holland and studied violin with her father Jo Juda (leader of the Concertgebouw Orchestra), Hermann Krebbers in Amsterdam and then with Sandor V\u00e9gh in Salzburg.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n    A founder member of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, with whom she still plays regularly, she has also played with the Nash Ensemble, the Hanson String Quartet, the Endymion Ensemble and the Hagen String Quartet. \n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn 1995, Iris moved to Salzburg where she plays in an Austrian folk group and is Principal Viola with the Camerata Salzburg.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--SALLY-->\n\n<style> h1 {font-size: 18px;margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px;}\n        p {font-size: 14px;margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px;}\n<\/style>\n<h1> Sally Pendelbury, Cello <\/h1>\n<p>\nSally Pendlebury grew up in Manchester and attended Chetham&#8217;s School of Music. At the age of fourteen she became the youngest founding member of the European Community Youth Orchestra and was its principal cellist for three years. Sally studied at the Guildhall School of Music, and during that time she won the Capital Radio Prize and was a Shell\/LSO competition prizewinner. She also won scholarships to study in Dusseldorf and Boston. \n<\/p>\n<p>\nA member of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Sally has performed and recorded with many of the great soloists and conductors of today. She was also a founder member of the Vellinger String Quartet which won the 1994 London  International String Quartet Competition, and toured regularly throughout Europe, Japan and the USA. The quartet performed at many festivals including those in Edinburgh, Mondsee and the Klangboden in Vienna, as well as the Mostly Mozart Festival at the Lincoln Centre.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSally is regularly invited to perform in festivals internationally and this year will participate in chamber music series in New York, San Francisco, Nurnberg and Graz. Sally often appears as guest principal cello with many British orchestras such as English Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Philharmonia, and she is currently principal cellist with Opera North.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!-- Steve Sterling -->\n<style> h1 {font-size: 18px;margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px;}\n        p {font-size: 14px;margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px;}\n    <\/style>\n        <h1>\n            Stephen Stirling, Horn \n        <\/h1>\n        <p>\nStephen is a horn soloist and chamber musician of worldwide renown. His discography includes over 90 chamber works and concertos, many of them world premiere recordings. He has played at chamber music festivals all over the world to glowing reviews: \u2018phenomenal\u2019 (Berlin) and \u2018incomparable\u2019 (Graz).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHe was an early member of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and in collaboration with groups such as Endymion, the New London Chamber Ensemble and the Fibonacci Sequence, he has been involved in premiering countless\u2018 new works. During the pandemic, in conjunction with Anthony Halstead, he researched and recorded a CD \u2018From Dennis Brain\u2019s Library\u2019, unearthing unknown manuscripts and forgotten works for horn and piano, for the MPR label. The recording has proved so popular that a Volume 2 is now being planned. Stephen is the principal horn of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the City of London Sinfonia and the Orchestra of St John&#8217;s. He has appeared regularly as guest principal or soloist with many famous orchestras, too numerous to list here. Recently, Stephen has enjoyed working for Aurora Orchestra in memorised live orchestral performances of symphonies by Beethoven, Mozart and Brahms. Stephen is Professor of Horn at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, coach to the horns of the National Youth Chamber Orchestra (UK) and a faculty member of the Yellow Barn International Music School and Festival in Vermont, USA.\n\n        <\/p>\n\n\n\n<<!-- Steve Williams -->\n<style> h1 {font-size: 18px;margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px;}\n        p {font-size: 14px;margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px;}\n    <\/style>\n        <h1>\n            Stephen Williams, Double Bass \n        <\/h1>\n        <p>\nStephen Williams, Double Bass Steve was born and grew up in South Wales, attending a vast comprehensive school where everyone had the opportunity to learn a musical instrument. Starting bass lessons when he was 14, he played in the National Youth Orchestra of Wales and the first ever European Youth Orchestra under Claudio Abbado. Following four years at the Guildhall School, studying with Kevin Rundell and Tom Martin, he joined the RPO for several years, touring widely with Antal Dorati, Paavo Berglund, Kurt Masur and Andr\u00e9 Previn. In 1987 he was appointed principal bass with the English Chamber Orchestra, performing and recording with Daniel Barenboim, Mitsuko Uchida, Pinchas Zukerman and Jeffrey Tate.Steve holds the same position with the Britten Sinfonia. Recent activities include working as guest principal with the LPO and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and recording as a guest with the Tippett Quartet. As a studio player he has worked with Adele, Billie Eilish and Josh Groban. 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