HANSLIP, CHLOE (b 1987 )

Admired for her exceptional musicality as well as her virtuosity, twenty-year-old British violinist Chloë Hanslip is already established as an international artist of distinction. Her recent recording for Naxos, of the John Adams Violin Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin, entered the UK Classical Charts at number 2, and Philip Clark, writing in The Gramophone, concluded that “Playing like this should secure Chloë Hanslip’s reputation for life”. Her two earlier CDs with the London Symphony Orchestra for Warner Classics, won her, respectively, the German “Echo Klassik Award for Best Newcomer” in 2002, and “Young British Classical Performer” at the Classical BRITS 2003.

Chloë Hanslip made her BBC Proms début in 2002, her United States concerto début in 2003, and has performed in major venues in Britain (Barbican, Royal Festival Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Wigmore Hall), Europe (Vienna Musikverein, Munich Gasteig, Prague Rudolfinum, Louvre and Salle Gaveau, Paris, and the Hermitage in St Petersburg) as well as Carnegie Hall, and the Seoul Arts Centre. Orchestras she has performed with include the Philharmonia, London, Bournemouth and Royal Scottish National Symphony Orchestras, Royal Liverpool and BBC Philharmonic Orchestras, Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, English Chamber Orchestra, London Mozart Players, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic, Czech, Lithuanian and Russian National Symphony Orchestras, and the Malaysian, Seattle and Tokyo Symphony Orchestras.

Conductor collaborations include Sir Andrew Davis, Mariss Jansons, Leonard Slatkin, Leif Segerstam, Libor Pešek, Tamás Vásáry, Raymond Leppard, Paul Daniel, Paavo Järvi and Kristjan Järvi. Chloë Hanslip’s teachers have included Natasha Boyarskaya, Zakhar Bron, the Russian pedagogue, who was her mentor for ten years, Salvatore Accardo, and Gerhard Schulz of the Alban Berg Quartet. At ten she appeared as the “infant prodigy violinist” in Ralph Fiennes’ film adaptation of Pushkin’s Evgeny Onegin, and made a significant contribution to Maxim Vengerov’s Master Class, shown on Channel 4 as part of the documentary Playing by Heart.

In recent years, chamber music has become an integral part of her life. She is a regular participant in Open Chamber Music at Prussia Cove, working with Steven Isserlis and Gerhard Schulz, and a regular performer at the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Finland. In 2005 she received a personal invitation from Seiji Ozawa to attend his inaugural Chamber Music Festival in Blonay, Switzerland, which was subsequently extended to 2006 and 2007.

Albums featuring this artist are available for download from ClassicsOnline.com
ADAMS, J.: Violin Concerto / CORIGLIANO: Chaconne from The Red Violin	8.559302
GODARD: Violin Concerto No. 2 / Concerto romantique / Scenes poetiques	8.570554