Magnus Johnston violin
Nadia Wijzenbeek violin
Tom Hankey viola
Guy Johnston cello
Marie Macleod cello
Tom Poster piano

The Aronowitz Ensemble was formed out of the desire of seven outstanding young international artists to explore and perform chamber music together in the highly adaptable combination of string sextet and piano. Since its sell-out debut at St John's, Smith Square in 2004, the Ensemble has maintained a busy schedule of engagements across the UK and beyond, covering a vast range of repertoire – familiar, neglected and new. As BBC New Generation Artists 2006-2008, Radio 3 broadcasts have included performances from the Wigmore and Bridgewater Halls, the Sage Gateshead, and the Aldeburgh, Bath, Cheltenham and City of London Festivals. The Ensemble made its BBC Proms debut in 2008 and returned for two further performances in 2009. Recent engagements have included concerts at Kings Place, St George’s Bristol, Queen’s University Belfast, and the Cambridge, Chichester, Gregynog, Newbury and Tetbury Festivals. They gave the inaugural Aldeburgh Residencies tour in 2006, contributed five concerts as ensemble-in-residence at the Two Moors Festival in 2007 and curated a series of performances at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy. Works written for the Aronowitz Ensemble include Gwilym Simcock’s Contours and Huw Watkins’ Sad Steps, both commissioned by the BBC, premiered at the City of London Festival and BBC Proms respectively. A new work by Martin Suckling, funded by the Royal Philharmonic Society, receives its first performance at the Wigmore Hall in 2010. The Aronowitz Ensemble enjoys collaborations with artists such as Nicholas Daniel, Gerald Finley, Matthew Hunt, Andrew Kennedy, Dominic Seldis, Ailish Tynan and Elizabeth Watts. The Ensemble has performed its own arrangements of works by Gershwin, Weill and Katie Melua in cabaret performances for the Aldeburgh and City of London Festivals. In 2009, the Aronowitz Ensemble was awarded a Special Ensemble Scholarship from the Borletti-Buitoni Trust.

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"On the Sonimage label, newly founded by Paul Segar, the Aronowitz Ensemble... here demonstrates not only the players’ superbly polished ensemble and intensity of performance but their flexibility too....superb playing and finely honed recording."
Edward Greenfield, Gramophone March 2010

"The premiere recording of Huw Watkins's Sad Steps (2008) – wistful yet lean and supple, written for pairs of violin, viola and cello with piano – complements the melancholy late-romanticism of Vaughan Williams's Phantasy Quintet (1912) and Elgar's Piano Quintet in A minor (1919). The players' exuberance keeps English nostalgia at bay and all stays in keen, bright focus."
Fiona Maddocks, The Observer, 31 January 2010

Project: Climbing The Skies, CD released by Sonimage February 2010

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• Support towards first recording
• Support for a series of concerts at The Forge, London

Artist Website

www.aronowitzensemble.co.uk

General Management

Aminah Domloge at ProArtist
telephone: +44 20 8858 0785
info@proartist.co.uk
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