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Professor, Royal College of Music, London. Madeleine Mitchell is one of Britain’s most outstanding violinists and has performed as a soloist in over 40 countries. She was a finalist in both the European Women of Achievement Awards and the Creative Briton Awards and is also sought after as a teacher. Won the Tagore Gold Medal as a scholar at the Royal College of Music where she has been a Professor since 1994. As Fulbright/ITT Fellow gained a master’s degree in New York in 1981 studying with Delay, Weilerstein and Rosenberg at the Eastman and Juilliard. Well known for her recitals in a wide repertoire and imaginative programming, broadcast frequently for TV and radio including Australia , the Far East , Europe and South Africa and frequently for the BBC. Represented Britain in the festival UKinNY with a recital at Lincoln Center and at Sydney Opera House, Seoul Center for the Arts, toured extensively for the British Council, played at many international festivals. Last year she performed with Norbert Brainin for his 80th birthday gala concert and performed at London’s Wigmore Hall. Latest recordings are “Hummel violin sonatas” for Meridian and “British Treasures” for Somm. Worked closely with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies as the violinist in the Fires of London including a major US tour for CAMI, many other composers have written solo works for her which she records in 2004, including MacMillan, Nyman, Woolrich, Montague, Elias, Powers and a new piece by Osborne, for NMC. Performed concertos with major orchestras throughout Europe . Highlights include Stravinsky violin concerto with the Polish Radio Symphony in the ISCM Masters of C20 music in Warsaw , Czech Radio Symphony, first Czech broadcast of Vaughan Williams Lark Ascending, Wurttemberg and Music Chamber Orchestras, Royal Philharmonic and other London orchestras, Karlovy Vary Orchestra on tour with Tamas Vasary, and for the BBC. Directs concertos from the violin such as Vivaldi and Bach; commissioned a unique’concerto’ by Jonathan Harvey, Thierry Pecou and Roxanna Panufnik for violin and voices, premiered at Bath and Spitalfields festivals. Devised “The Red Violin”, the first international festival of the violin across the arts held in Cardiff 1997. As Artistic Director she secured Lord Menuhin as Patron and extensive BBC coverage. Director of the London Chamber Ensemble, the US Embassy London concerts and Leader of the Bridge Quartet. Recordings include Bridge quartet and viola quintet (release 2004) and Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time with Joanna MacGregor, Christopher Van Kampen and David Campbell the widely recommended version due for re-release on Soundcircus.
