HANSLIP, CHLOE (b 1987 ) Admired for her exceptional musicality as well as her virtuosity, twenty-year-old British violinist Chloe Hanslip is already established as an international artist of distinction. Her recent recording for Naxos, of the John Adams Violin Concerto with the Royal... (more info)

HANSLIP, CHLOE (b 1987 )

Admired for her exceptional musicality as well as her virtuosity, twenty-year-old British violinist Chloe Hanslip is already established as an international artist of distinction. Her recent recording for Naxos, of the John Adams Violin Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin, entered the UK Classical Charts at number 2, and Philip Clark, writing in The Gramophone, concluded that "Playing like this should secure Chloe Hanslip's reputation for life". 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.

Chloe Hanslip made her BBC Proms debut in 2002, her United States concerto debut in 2003, and has performed in major venues in Britain (Barbican, Royal Festival Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Wigmore Hall), Europe (Vienna Musikverein, Munich Gasteig, Prague Rudolfinum, Louvre and Salle Gaveau, Paris, and the Hermitage in St Petersburg) as well as Carnegie Hall, and the Seoul Arts Centre. Orchestras she has performed with include the Philharmonia, London, Bournemouth and Royal Scottish National Symphony Orchestras, Royal Liverpool and BBC Philharmonic Orchestras, Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, English Chamber Orchestra, London Mozart Players, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic, Czech, Lithuanian and Russian National Symphony Orchestras, and the Malaysian, Seattle and Tokyo Symphony Orchestras.

Conductor collaborations include Sir Andrew Davis, Mariss Jansons, Leonard Slatkin, Leif Segerstam, Libor Pesek, Tamas Vasary, Raymond Leppard, Paul Daniel, Paavo Jarvi and Kristjan Jarvi. Chloe Hanslip's teachers have included Natasha Boyarskaya, Zakhar Bron, the Russian pedagogue, who was her mentor for ten years, Salvatore Accardo, and Gerhard Schulz of the Alban Berg Quartet. At ten she appeared as the "infant prodigy violinist" in Ralph Fiennes' film adaptation of Pushkin's Evgeny Onegin, and made a significant contribution to Maxim Vengerov's Master Class, shown on Channel 4 as part of the documentary Playing by Heart.