Chloë Hanslip
United Kingdom
violin
www.chloehanslip.com
At the age of 22, Chloë is already an established international artist of distinction.
Her recent recording for Naxos of the John Adams Violin Concerto with the RPO under Leonard Slatkin entered the UK Classical Charts at number 2 Her two earlier CDs with the London Symphony Orchestra for Warner Classics, won her, respectively, the German 'Echo Klassik Award for Best Newcomer' in 2002, and 'Young British Classical Performer' at the Classical BRITS 2003.
Chloë’s mentor for 10 years was the Russian pedagogue Zakhar Bron. Bryn Terfel, winner of Hamburg’s 2006 Alfred Töpfer Shakespeare Prize for outstanding contribution to the Anglo-Saxon cultural heritage of Europe chose Chloë as the 2007 young artist to receive a scholarship for further studies. She made a significant contribution to Maxim Vengerov’s Master Classshown as part of the documentary ‘Playing by Heart’.
Chloë often performs at festivals, such as Open Chamber Music at Prussia Cove and Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Finland. In 2005 she received a personal invitation from Seiji Ozawa to attend his inaugural Chamber Music Festival in Blonay, Switzerland, which was subsequently extended to 2006 and 2007.
Orchestras she has performed with include the Philharmonia, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, English Chamber Orchestra, Hallé, BBC Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National, Seattle Symphony, Malaysian Philharmonic, Moscow State Symphony, Czech National Symphony and the Tokyo Symphony.
Chloë has performed for the Duke of Edinburgh in Windsor. Greenwich and Buckingham Palace, given the European Premiere of Sir John Tavener’s 'Ikon of Eros', and the World Premiere of the first extract of Andrew Lloyd-Webbers 'Phantasia on Phantom of the Opera’.
Chloë plays a 1737 Guarneri del Gesu.