GRAHAM WALKER (cello, cello baroque) »
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Teaching experienceGraham is a visiting cello teacher at Harrow, Bedford, and King's College (Cambridge) Schools. He was student professor at King's College, London on behalf of the RAM (2001-2005), and has also given masterclasses in Latin America. |
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Graham performances are with the pianist Iain Farrington
Biography
Having recently given his debut solo performances on BBC Radio 3, at the Concertgebouw, and at Birmingham's Symphony Hall, Graham Walker enjoys a fast-developing international reputation as a soloist and chamber musician. Graham was first a chorister and later a choral scholar of St John's College, Cambridge, where he read Mathematics. He later took up a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied cello with Lionel Handy and baroque cello with Jennifer Ward-Clarke. Graham is cellist of the Farrington Ensemble (vc, pno, cl, vn), the British Camerata, Janiculum and La Nuova Musica (early music voices and instruments), and Classico Latino (a piano trio performing classic Latin-American music with whom he has twice toured Colombia, selling out the Bogotá Opera House and being offered a contract by Sony). In 2008 he undertook his second solo recital tour of the USA, where he performed all of Bach's Cello suites, an achievement he repeated in England and during the Edinburgh festival.
Highlights of his work as a continuo player include Charpentier's Acteon under Emmanuelle Haïm. Principal cellist of Opera East and the Pepys Ensemble, Graham is a regular deputy for the ROH and the BBC NOW, and has played for the ENO, RSNO and BSO. He has recorded variously as a cellist, singer and conductor for EMI, Chandos, Nimbus, Quillisma and Naxos.
Orchestral Work
Orchestras: Brandenburg Baroque Soloists, Brandenburg Sinfonia, National Symphony Orchestra, New London Orchestra, New London Sinfonia, Oxford Philomusica, Sinfonia Verdi.
Graham's orchestral work also includes Royal Opera House Orchestra (dep list), English National Opera (Trial, R&F), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (Trial, R&F), BBC National Orchestra of Wales (dep list), Royal Scottish National Orchestra (Trial, R&F), Opera East (touring opera - princ) and Iford Festival Orchestra (chamber opera - princ). Chamber Music: Classico Latino (piano trio), Farrington Ensemble, New Esterhazy Ensemble, Janiculum, La Nuova Musica and British Camerata.
Graham's Solo work includes work for BBC Radio 3 (solo debut in 2009), recitals at the Concertgebouw and Birmingham Symphony Hall (2009). He performed the complete JS Bach suites in 2008 both in the UK (including the Edinburgh Festival) and the USA, and gives regular solo and duo recitals (with Iain Farrington on Piano) in music clubs and societies across the UK.
Education
Graham's graduate studies took place at Royal Academy of Music (postgraduate and LRAM teaching diploma. Joint Cello and Baroque Cello, 2000-02) and St John's College, Cambridge University (BA Hons), 1996-99).
Prizes and Awards
- 2009 - Winner, UK Unsigned (with Classico Latino)
- 2005 - Bursary, Music Sound Foundation
- 2004 - Bursary, Macfarlane Walker Trust
- 2003 - Bursary, KPMG-Martin Musical Scholarship Fund
- 2002 - Mortimer Award, RAM (with Farrington Ensemble)
- 2000 - Entrance scholarship and bursary, RAM
Teachers: Lionel Handy and Jennifer Ward-Clarke
Graham joined Morgensterns in January 2010
Graham's web profile was last updated 19th May 2012