ChloË Hanslip Biography
At the age of 20, Chloë is already an established international artist of distinction. Her recent recording for Naxos of the John Adams Violin Concerto with the RPO under Leonard Slatkin entered the UK Classical Charts at number 2, and Philip Clark, writing in 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. She is about to release her 4th CD - Romantic Concerti by Benjamin Godard- in Feb 2008 to be followed by a recital disc of works by Bazzini later in 2008.
In the 2005/2006 season Chloë made an impressive debut with Mariss Jansons and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerische Rundfunk in the Munich Gasteig. She made her BBC Proms debut in 2002, her US concerto debut in 2003, and has performed in major venues in the UK (Barbican, Royal Festival Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Wigmore Hall), Europe (Vienna Musikverein, Louvre and Salle Gaveau-Paris, The Hermitage-St.Petersburg) as well as Carnegie Hall, Metropolitan Arts Space-Tokyo and the Seoul Arts Centre.
Orchestras she has performed with include the Philharmonia, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, English Chamber Orchestra, Hallé, BBC Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National, Bournemouth Symphony, Academy of St.Martin-in-the-Fields, London Mozart Players, Seattle Symphony, Malaysian Philharmonic, Moscow State Symphony, Czech National Symphony, Lithuanian National Symphony, Belgrade Philharmonic, and the Tokyo Symphony.
Conductors she has worked with include Mariss Jansons, Sir Andrew Davis, Leonard Slatkin, Paul Daniel, Pavel Kogan, Richard Hickox, Gianandrea Noseda, Gerard Schwarz, Barry Wordsworth, Claus Peter Flor, Martyn Brabbins, Paul Freeman, Petr Altrichter & Christopher Warren-Green. She makes her debut with Hannu Lintu and the Norwegian Radio Orchestra as well as Neeme Jarvi and the Tonkunstler this Season. In 2009 she debuts with Paavo Jarvi and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
Chloë’s mentor for 10 years has been the Russian pedagogue Zakhar Bron She has also worked with Ida Haendel, Salvatore Accardo, and Gerhard Schulz . Bryn Terfel, winner of Hamburg’s 2006 Alfred Töpfer Shakespeare Prize for outstanding contribution to the Anglo-Saxon cultural heritage of Europe chose Chloë as the 2007 young artist to receive a scholarship for further studies.
At ten, Chloë 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 and throughout Europe, as part of the documentary ‘Playing by Heart’. She was the first instrumentalist invited by Bryn Terfel to play in the Opera Night at his Faenol Festival, and has performed for the Duke of Edinburgh in Windsor and Greenwich, given the European Premiere of Sir John Tavener’s 'Ikon of Eros', and the World Premiere of the first extract of Andrew Lloyd-Webbers 'Phantasia on Phantom of the Opera’.
Chamber Music has become an integral part of Chloë`s life. She is a regular participant in Open Chamber Music at Prussia Cove, working with Steven Isserlis and Gerhard Schulz, and is a regular performer at the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Finland being invited to perform in the 40th Anniversary celebration in 2009. 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.
Chloë is actively pursuing new and unusual repertoire to add to her extensive concerti, recital and recording programmes.
"I am converted - she (Chloë Hanslip) is likely to become the greatest violinist of her generation." Christopher Latham - Limelight