Philip
Highamcello,
Simon Lane, piano
Philip
Higham
cello,
Simon Lane, piano
will play at Holy
Trinity Church
on
Saturday 19th March 2011
A winner of the 2010 Making Music Philip and Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists.
Selected for representation
by Young Concert Artists Trust (YCAT) in 2009, Philip is rapidly emerging as one
of the most prominent young cellists from the UK. Recently he has won 1st Prize
in the 2008 International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig, the
first ever British prize winner since the competition began and 1st Prize in the
7th 2009 International Lutoslawski Cello Competition in Warsaw. Last summer he
gave recitals in Lake Maggiore, Italy, the Bachwoche in Ansbach, the Leipzig
BachFest, Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Lake District Summer Music Festival.
Born in Edinburgh in 1985, Philip studied at the Royal Northern College of Music
with Emma Ferrand and Ralph Kirshbaum. He graduated in 2007 with First class
Honours and was immediately selected for the new International Artist Diploma
scheme at the RNCM.
Engagements to date include an appearance as soloist with the Warsaw
Philharmonic Orchestra and concerts in Italy and Germany. He gives recitals at
Bridgewater Hall, Purcell Room, Spitalfields Festival and Wigmore Hall and tours
throughout Scotland as a Tunnell Trust award winner.
After studying at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, Simon completed a postgraduate course at the Royal Academy of Music in London and was awarded the Helen Eames Prize on graduation.
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