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Saturday, December 04, 2010

Pavao Quartet Newsletter



NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 2010


Dear friends,


We hope you are all wrapped up warm and enjoying the lead-up to Christmas. We feel we are well prepared this time, having prematurely posted our letters to Santa Claus in Greenland last June,

on another magical P&O cruise that took us to Iceland, Greenland and Norway and even into the Arctic Circle! As well as playing quartets, we found ourselves bathing in the Blue Lagoon, kayaking down fjords and sailing amongst icebergs.


Appropriately, our Christmas Collection has recently become available to download on iTunes, along with our ‘Dreaming’ and ‘Elgar and Bax’ albums.


The last few months have seen us eagerly watching the classical charts– we’ve been at No. 1 on both sides of the Atlantic with Eric Whitacre’s album Light and Gold; we also feature on an album for Classic FM called The Guitarist, which we recorded with our friend Craig Ogden in the summer. There was much excitement when the two appeared at No. 1 in different UK charts simultaneously.


We’re thrilled that Classic FM are giving us our very own Artists’ Page on their website – so have a look soon on Classicfm.co.uk.


Last month we were honoured to play at a breast cancer charity event at Harrods, hosted by Elizabeth Hurley. As always our Christmas album is available from Amazon - £1 per sale goes to Breakthrough Breast Cancer.
















If you’re watching Rick Stein’s latest cookery series, have a listen out for us! This is the third series for which we’ve recorded the incidental music.


We recently enjoyed recitals in Sittingbourne and Basingstoke and are currently getting stuck into learning Bartok 4 for a recital in Haslemere in January. Before then we have Christmas concerts coming up in London at St. Martin in the Fields, and St James', Piccadilly, on 17th and 18th December.


From January, Jen will be taking 6 months off on maternity leave for her second child, due on Valentines’ Day!


Next year holds much in store, including a return trip to the Mussenden Temple in Ireland as well as playing on the last ever voyage of P&O’s Artemis in April.


Wishing you a very happy Christmas and New Year,

Love

Bryony, Natalia, Jenny and Kerenza















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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sounds good, I like to read your blog, just added to my favorites ;)

12:37 PM
Anonymous said...

Il semble que vous soyez un expert dans ce domaine, vos remarques sont tres interessantes, merci.

- Daniel

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    Kerenza Peacock began playing the violin in Ipswich at the age of three. She graduated with First Class Honours from the Royal Academy of Music in 2002. Kerenza has led the Pavao String Quartet ( “Exceptionally talented” BBC Music Magazine) for eleven years with extensive UK recital tours. They have also played extensively abroad, including in China, Oman, Syria, the USA, and an arc of European cities from Lisbon to Warsaw. The Quartet released four CDs, including Elgar and Bax String Quartets, (‘intoxicating warmth and emotional spontaneity’: Strad Magazine; ‘5 stars’: The FT) As well as playing in the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia and BBC Concert Orchestra, Kerenza has often led the orchestras for West End shows and played the solo in ‘Fiddler on the Roof’. She has performed with John Lill and with singers as diverse as Sir Willard White, Andrew Kennedy, Elaine Paige, Hayley Westenra, Rod Stewart (at Buckingham Palace), the Spice Girls, Noel Gallagher and Sir Paul McCartney. She is in demand as a session player in London, and records for TV and film (and has even played on the X-Factor!) In any spare moment, she knits.
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