concert5

Our president
Howard Shelley, piano
and a string quintet of
London Mozart Players

will play at Holy Trinity Church
on
Saturday 13th March 2010

They will play The "Trout" Quintet by Schubert and
Chopin's Piano concerto No. 1 in E minor

After winning the premier prize at the Royal College of Music at the end of his first year, Howard Shelley's career began with a highly successful London recital and a televised Promenade concert with the London Symphony Orchestra under Michael Tilson Thomas In the same season. Since then he has performed regularly throughout the UK, Europe, Scandinavia, North America, Russia, Australia, and the Far East. He has also made over seventy-five highly acclaimed commercial recordings.

As pianist he has performed, broadcast and recorded around the world with leading orchestras and conductors including Ashkenazy, Eoulez, Boult, Davis, Jansons, Rozhdestvensky and Sanderling. In a unique series of five London recitals, broadcast by the BBC, he played Rachmaninov's complete soio piano music. He has given complete cycles of Rachmaninov concertos with the Royal Scottish National, Beethoven concertos with the BBC Philhanronic and Mozart concerto series with the London Mozad Players, Camerata Salzburg and Munich Symphony.

As conductor he has performed with the London Philharmonic, London Symphony and Royal Philharmonic orchestras, the Philharmonia, Royal Scottish National and Ulster orchestras as well as the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Fiiarmonica de la Ciudad de Mexico, Munich Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and West Australian Symphony Orchestra, amongst many others. He has held positions of Associate and Principal Guest Conductor with the London Mozart Players in a close relationship of over twenty years. He has toured with them to Japan, Korea, Germany, Sweden, ltaly, Holland, lreland and to the Prague Autumn Festival. Their many recordings together have in every case received exceptional critical acclaim.

Shelley has also been Principal Conductor of Sweden's Uppsala Chamber Orchestra and works closely with the Camerata Salzburg, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto in ltaly and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra in Australia with whom he has recorded several discs. Other chamber orchestras with whom he has worked include the English Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, $wedish Chamber, Zurich Chamber, Netherlands Chamber & Stuttgart Chamber orchestras, the Northern Sinfonia, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Leipzig Kamrnerphilharmorrie & the Orchestra della Svizzera ltaliana in Lugano.

He has appeared regularly on television since the age o{ ten when he gave a recital of Bach and Chopin. He was soloist at the 100th anniversary of the Promenade Concerts, a concerto which was televised world-wide. A documentary on Ravel rnade in 1998 by the Australian Broadcastinq Commission, featurinq Shellev as conductor. pianist and presenter won the Gotd MJoal for the best arts bioiraphy of the year at the New york Festivals Awards.

His many recordings for Chandos, Hyperion and EMI include award-winning sets of Rachmaninov's complete piano music and concertos, series of Mozart, Hummel, Mendelssohn, Moscheles and Cramer concertos as well as all Gershwin's works for piano & orchestra and a series of British concertos including Alwyn, Bridge, Howells, Rubbra, Scott, Tippett and Vaughan Williams. Howard Shelley is married to fellow pianist Hilary Macnamara, with whom he has performed and recorded in a two-piano partnership, and they have two sons.

In 1994 an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Music was conferred on him by HRH The Prince of Wales. In 2009 he was awarded the OBE.

The London Mozart Players is the UK's longest-established chamber orchestra, founded in 1949 by the great Harry Blech. Since then it has had Jane Glover, Matthias Bamert and Andrew Parrott as its Music Directors. Resident Orchestra for the London Borough of Croydon and at the Fairfield Hall in Croydon, the LMP travels all over the UK and in Europe with concerts and education work, bringing music to thousands

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