ROLTON, JULIAN A highly versatile musician, Julian Rolton is equally at ease as a concerto soloist, chamber musician and
accompanist. He has worked with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra in Canada, performed concertos by Britten,
Shostakovich and Strauss in the London South Bank Centre, and Kagel’s Phantasiestücke with Martyn Brabbins and
Sinfonia 21 in the Ars Musica Festival in Brussels, the British première of which was broadcast by the BBC. Having
studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada, Julian Rolton has
performed for music clubs throughout Britain and played at festivals in Cambridge, Warwick, Peterborough, Bath
and Oxford. As an accompanist he has appeared in recitals and recordings, and regularly played for master-classes
at the Snape Maltings. He performs regularly with the violist Martin Outram and together they have recorded sonatas
by Rawsthorne and Bliss for Naxos. He is a member of the Chagall Trio which has released an acclaimed recording
of works by Dame Ethel Smyth for Meridian and appeared at festivals throughout Britain, with broadcasts on BBC
Radio 3. Julian Rolton teaches at the Rudolf Steiner School, Kings Langley.
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