Angela East - Biography
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Angela East is a dynamic and entertaining cellist who provides captivating concerts, playing several different instruments and introducing her programmes to the audience in an engaging way. As one promoter wrote, 'The audience was spellbound; they went away wanting more...'
Angela showed her talent from an early age, winning the Arts Councils Suggia Award at the age of 14 and continuing her studies at the Royal Academy of Music with Derek Simpson and later with André Navarra and Christopher Bunting.
After several years of freelancing, in 1979 she acquired a baroque cello and became co-principal cello with the English Baroque Soloists under Sir John Eliot Gardiner. She became well-known as a continuo player and concerto soloist with a number of baroque orchestras such as the Brandenburg Consort and the Gabrieli Consort, performing at La Scala, Milan, the Sydney Opera House, the Carnegie Hall, the Palace of Versailles, the Presidential Palace in Portugal and the ancient ruins of Pompeii and Athens. She performed in Handel's birthplace (Halle, East Germany) on the tercentenary of his birth and in 1989 undertook a world tour visiting the USA, Australia, Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong. She played Principal Cello in the first performance on original instruments at Glyndebourne with Sir Simon Rattle.
Her performances have included many radio broadcasts, recordings and television appearances. She has contributed articles to Early Music Today magazine and has been awarded an ARAM for her distinguished services to the music profession.
As one of the early pioneers of historical performance practice, her enthusiasm extends beyond the conventional parameters of early music into the nineteenth century. To this end she founded and directed the Revolutionary Drawing Room, a multi-instrumental ensemble with the Revolutionary String Quartet as its core.
She founded and directs the London Baroque Soloists, an orchestra that performs regularly with the BBC Singers. They also perform instrumental programmers of neglected baroque masterpieces.
She is a founding member of the baroque supergroup Red Priest, which has delighted audiences in many countries with its thrilling, no-holds-barred approach to baroque music, described in Gramophone as ‘sheer daring… dynamic, theatrical and outrageously different.’
Angela East is a dynamic and entertaining cellist who provides captivating concerts, playing several different instruments and introducing her programmes to the audience in an engaging way. As one promoter wrote, 'The audience was spellbound; they went away wanting more...'
Angela showed her talent from an early age, winning the Arts Councils Suggia Award at the age of 14 and continuing her studies at the Royal Academy of Music with Derek Simpson and later with André Navarra and Christopher Bunting.
After several years of freelancing, in 1979 she acquired a baroque cello and became co-principal cello with the English Baroque Soloists under Sir John Eliot Gardiner. She became well-known as a continuo player and concerto soloist with a number of baroque orchestras such as the Brandenburg Consort and the Gabrieli Consort, performing at La Scala, Milan, the Sydney Opera House, the Carnegie Hall, the Palace of Versailles, the Presidential Palace in Portugal and the ancient ruins of Pompeii and Athens. She performed in Handel's birthplace (Halle, East Germany) on the tercentenary of his birth and in 1989 undertook a world tour visiting the USA, Australia, Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong. She played Principal Cello in the first performance on original instruments at Glyndebourne with Sir Simon Rattle.
Her performances have included many radio broadcasts, recordings and television appearances. She has contributed articles to Early Music Today magazine and has been awarded an ARAM for her distinguished services to the music profession.
As one of the early pioneers of historical performance practice, her enthusiasm extends beyond the conventional parameters of early music into the nineteenth century. To this end she founded and directed the Revolutionary Drawing Room, a multi-instrumental ensemble with the Revolutionary String Quartet as its core.
She founded and directs the London Baroque Soloists, an orchestra that performs regularly with the BBC Singers. They also perform instrumental programmers of neglected baroque masterpieces.
She is a founding member of the baroque supergroup Red Priest, which has delighted audiences in many countries with its thrilling, no-holds-barred approach to baroque music, described in Gramophone as ‘sheer daring… dynamic, theatrical and outrageously different.’
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