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P.I. Tchaikovski
Concerto per Violino
in Re magg. op.35

P.I. Tchaikovski
Sinfonia n.4 in Fa min. op.36

UNG SYMFONI (Norvegia 90 elementi)

Violino Tamsin Waley-Cohen
direttore Kjell Seim

L’ORCHESTRA
Ung Symfoni is a symphony orchestra from the west coast in Norway with about 75 members. The orchestra is ten years old, and has been touring Brussels, Pragh, USA (Touring the state of Washington) and St Petersburg, Russia. The orchestra has most of the members from Bergen, but many also come from other places in southern Norway. The intension with the orchestra is to give young people the opportunity to play symphonic music at a highest possible level. The members come from school orchestras, music schools, Conservatories and the Grieg academy in Bergen.

Kjell Seim - conductor
Kjell Seim(1955) is one of Norway most after-sought conductors for concert,opera,music theatre and ballet:
He studied at the State Academy of Music in Oslo, where he gained his conducting - Diploma in 1982. Further studies includes a number of international master-classes. In 1987 he received the First Prize
at the Nordic Conducting Competition in Stockholm. Since 1989 Mr. Seim is Music Director of Norways Kristiansund Opera, which has an extensive annual production of operas and ballets. Kjell Seim is a favorite guest conductor with the philharmonic & symphonic orchestras in Norway, with the Norwegian State Opera and with orchestras throughout Scandinavia. He has also conducted orchestras in Germany. Since 1993 he’s been guest-conducting the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan. Kjell Seim’s previous music directorships include Sweden’s Jonkping Symphony Orchestra, the Kristiansand Chamber Orchestra, the North Norwegian Chamber Orchestra,the Royal Norwegian Armed Forces Staff Band, and Norwegian Youth Symphony Orchestra. He is now leading Norways brilliant ´Young Symphony’ in concert and tours. Kjell Seim has an extensive repertory, including all major classical & romantic works, a great number of operas and ballets, and many of the important 20th century works, incl. avantgarde. He has also conducted orchestras in Germany and the Finnish National Ballet.

Tamsin Waley-Cohen
performs with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of St John's, London Concert Orchestra and London Chamber Orchestra, and under conductors including Andrew Litton, Jose Serebrier, Shlomo Mintz, Nicholas Cleobury, John Lubbock and Robert Max. She has played at Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall, Symphony Hall Birmingham, Queen Elizabeth Hall and in venues across England, Scotland, Italy and Israel. In demand as a recitalist, her partners include pianists Gary Matthewman and Gregorio Nardi. A versatile musician, her repertoire ranges from baroque through to contemporary music. She is also an avid chamber musician which has led to her forming the Honeymead Ensemble, which in its first two years (2007 and 2008) will have included Adrian Brendel, Guy Ben-Zioni, Eyal Kless, Leon McCauley, John Myerscough and Jon Thorne. She has participated in Festivals, including Cheltenham, Academia San Felice, Piandellagotti, The Red Violin, and The Two Moors. Tamsin was born in London in 1986. She became a Foundation Scholar at the Royal College of Music where she won numerous RCM awards, including the concerto competition, Ian Stoutzker Prize, and was their String Player of the year. At the RCM her Professor was Itzhak Rashkovsky. Other competition successes include being a BBC Young Musician of the Year strings finalist, a laureate at Kloster Schontal and Sion, and winning the 2005 Royal Overseas League Strings prize, and the J & A Beare Solo Bach prize in 2007. Plans for 2008 include concerto performances at the Barbican, London and Bridgewater Hall, Manchester; in Italy at Florence and Lucca; opening the St Jude's Proms in London with the London Chamber Orchestra; return performances of the Tchaikovsky concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as the Honeymead and Tuscany chamber music festivals and recitals throughout the UK. Tamsin has been a regular participant at the International Musicians' Seminar at Prussia Cove since she was 16, where she has worked with distinguished musicians including Lorand Fenyves, Andras Keller, Martin Lovett, Mark Padmore and Gerhard Schulz. She has also participated in master classes given by Ida Haendel, Igor Ozim, and Ruggiero Ricci, the latter describing her as "the most exceptionally gifted young violinist I have ever encountered."

Since early 2007 she has played the 1721 ex-Fenyves Stradivarius violin.