NEARY, ALICE Alice Neary was the winner of the 1998 Pierre Fournier Award and has won major prizes in 2001 Leonard Rose and 1997 Adam International Cello Competitions. Alice was also winner of the String Section of the 1996 Royal Overseas League Competition and the Silver Medal in the 1994 Shell/LSO Competition.
She made her Wigmore Hall debut in January 1999 and has given recitals throughout the UK, Europe and the USA and given concerto performances with the RLPO Ulster Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, European Union Chamber Orchestra and Orchestra of St Johns.
As artist in residence at the Presteigne Festival she premiered works by John McCabe, Huw Watkins and Michael Berkeley. She recently recorded Donald Tovey’s Cello Concerto to considerable critical acclaim.
As a member of the Gould Piano Trio she tours extensively worldwide and has recorded for Naxos, Quartz and Chandos. Educated at Chethams she studied with Ralph Kirshbaum at the RNCM & Timothy Eddy as a Fulbright Scholar at the State University of New York. She plays a Gagliano cello of 1720.
For more information please visit the Gould Piano Trio website.
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