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Camarilla Ensemble are the 2008 winners of The Royal Overseas League Chamber Music Competition. The members of Camarilla met during their studies at the Royal Academy of Music and since graduating have held a Leverhulme Chamber Music Fellowship there. This had enabled them to research, perform and promote British music which has led to the commission of a new piece by Karl Jenkins.
Their past performances include recitals for the Pinner Festival under the auspices of Young Concert Artists Trust, at St.Martin in the Fields, St.David’s Hall and Millenium Centre in Cardiff at Bryn Terfel’s Faenol Festival and for CHIKS Charity at Frensham Heights in Surrey. They have more recently recorded the soundtrack for a channel 4 film animation. Camarilla played at the RAM club, celebrating the music of Sir Arnold Bax and also at the Warehouse Studios in London. Concerti performances include Mozart’s ‘Sinfonia Concertante’ with RAM Sinfonia and Bax’s ‘Concertante for Three Wind and Orchestra’ with the Sirius Ensemble.
The members of Camarilla were invited to play as principals in The Symphony Orchestra of India, its first ever orchestra of this kind, and have since returned for subsequent seasons.
The Camarilla Ensemble takes pleasure in performing a wide and varied repertoire. This includes well-loved classics such as Mozart and Gershwin, as well as the more serious chamber works of Barber, Dvorak, Ligeti and Poulenc. They also have a keen interest in discovering new and lesser-known works such as those performed in their concert of Finnish chamber works for the Finnish Embassy at the Foreign and Commonwealth Offices. They have a particular interest in promoting British wind music. |
