Biographies
Daniel Bhattacharya - Violin
Previously a member of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Daniel enjoys a career performing and teaching throughout the world.
Daniel has worked with many ensembles performing in principal positions in orchestras such as: BBC Scottish Symphony, English National Opera, Bournemouth Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC Concert Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Daniel is currently principal 2nd of the London Concert Orchestra and leads ensembles such as the Brighton Philharmonic, London Concertante and the London Gala Orchestra. In addition Daniel has worked with the London Philharmonic, Philharmonia, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Scottish Ensemble and Glyndebourne Festival and Touring Opera.
Daniel has performed on many film soundtracks such as the Lord of the Rings, Ronin, Blue Planet and Ladies in Lavendar. In 2008 Daniel was asked to lead the new musical Marguerite, at the Haymarket Theatre, London and is now co-leader of 'Phantom of the Opera' in the West End, London.
As a soloist and chamber musician, Daniel has performed at the Wigmore Hall (London), Carnegie Hall (New York), Sheldonian Theatre (Oxford) and Queen Elizabeth Hall (London). Festivals include Brighton, Lichfield, Aix-en-Provence and Cheltenham. Recent solo performances have taken him to Spain, Canada, France and India. He has made broadcasts for BBC radio, Canada and Russian radio and TV.
Daniel regularly collaborates with the composer and multi-instrumentalist Tunde Jegede. This has resulted in many performances and recordings, the last of which, ‘Nomad’, was released in 2007.
Daniel studied as a scholar at the Purcell School of Music, Royal Northern College of Music and the Royal Conservatory of Music (Canada). His violin teachers have included Yossi Zivoni, Yfrah Neaman and Lorand Fenyves. He studied chamber music with Leon Fleisher, Jamie Laredo and Nick Roth.
Daniel is also an enthusiastic teacher and coach. Currently Head of Strings at Stowe School, Violin tutor at Lancing College, Queen’s College and Somerville College, Oxford. Daniel works with many Youth Orchestras nationally and internationally and regularly coaches at the Royal College of Music.
In 2002 Daniel was invited to judge the Sri Lanka Music Competition in Colombo. In 2008 Daniel was asked to adjudicate the prestigious Violin Competition at the Royal College of Music, London. Daniel has also been on the panel for the ARCM diplomas at the Royal College of Music.
Daniel is co-founder and artistic director of the Alfriston Summer Music Festival in Sussex, UK. The Festival regularly features artists such as Dame Felicity Lott, Lei-Wei and Karine Georgian.
Jeremy Young - Pianoforte
London born pianist, Jeremy Young performs throughout the world as a chamber musician and soloist.
He has appeared in recital at the Lincoln Center (New York), the Herbst Theater (San Francisco), Esplanade Concert Hall (Singapore), Jin Mao Concert Hall (Shanghai), National Concert Hall (Dublin), and performances have taken him as far afield as Beijing, Macau, Hong Kong, Kazachstan much of the USA and Europe. He has performed at the Mecklenberg Voppernmen (Germany) and Graz (Austria) international music festivals, amongst others and in the UK he gives concerts at the Wigmore Hall, Bridgewater Hall, South Bank Centre and appears in festivals including Lake District, Harrogate, Brighton, Petworth, Endellion, City of London and Dartington.
Jeremy has made broadcasts for BBC Radio 3, Classic FM, RTE Lyric FM, BBCTV, Channel 4, S4C, Hong Kong Radio 4 and radio in China, USA, Kazachstan, Russia and much of Europe. His recordings are available on EMI Asia, Decca, Meridian, Signum and Somm record labels.
A founder member of Ovid Ensemble and the Manchester Piano Trio, Jeremy works alongside such artists as the cellists Li-Wei and Karine Georgian, violinist Mengla Huang, violists Thomas Riebl and Simon Rowland-Jones and with singers Roderick Williams, Pamela Helen Stephen and Daniel Norman.
Jeremy studied as a scholar at the Purcell School of Music, the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music. His piano teachers included Christopher Elton, Frank Wibaut and Vladimir Ovchinkov. He studied chamber music with the Amadeus String Quartet, Andras Schiff and Joseph Seiger at the Royal Academy of Music, Menahem Pressler at the Banff Centre of the Performing Arts in Canada and with Dr. Christopher Rowland at the Royal Northern College of Music.
As a teacher Jeremy has given classes at Yong Sieiw Toh Conservatory, Singapore, the Shanghai Conservatory, the Sibelius Academy in Finland, Conservatorio di Verona, the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. He currently acts as an external examiner for the Royal Academy of Music, Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Manchester University. He is a Senior Piano Tutor and the Deputy Director of Chamber Music at the Royal Northern College of Music and teaches piano and chamber music at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester, UK.
Jeremy is the co-founder and artistic director of the Alfriston Summer Music Festival in Sussex, England. In 2007 Jeremy was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM).