Toby Cook is a current Hattori Foundation Senior Award Winner.
This performance forms part of the Hattori Foundation early evening concert series. This is a very friendly series, in true Salon-style, where guests are invited to enjoy a pre-concert drink included in the ticket price, a one-hour performance (without interval) and then meet the performers and Trustees in the Club's bar after each recital for complimentary refreshments.
This performance forms part of the Hattori Foundation early evening concert series. This is a very friendly series, in true Salon-style, where guests are invited to enjoy a pre-concert drink included in the ticket price, a one-hour performance (without interval) and then meet the performers and Trustees in the Club's bar after each recital for complimentary refreshments.
Programme (60 minutes, no interval)J.S. Bach
Cello Suite no.3 Paul Hindemith Solo viola sonata no.4 Robert Schumann Märchenbilder |
The Hattori Foundation was established as an Educational Trust by the Hattori Family and granted charity status in 1992.
The aim of the Foundation in the field of music is to encourage and assist exceptionally talented young instrumental soloists or chamber ensembles who are British Nationals or resident in the UK and whose talent and achievements give promise of an international career. |
Toby Cook
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Toby Cook performs internationally as a soloist and chamber musician, recently including at Kings Place London, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and Philharmonie Berlin. He is a Tillett Trust and Villa Musica artist, winner of the Małopolska competition, the Barbirolli Prize at the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition and the Len Lickorish Memorial Prize at the Royal Overseas League International Strings Competition, and is a Hattori Foundation award winner. Based in London, Berlin and Zurich, Toby currently studies with Lawrence Power at the Zurich University of Arts. He completed his masters degree with Tabea Zimmermann at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, and Bachelor degree with Juan-Miguel Hernandez and Garfield Jackson at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he began in the Primary and Junior Royal Academy departments with Jacky Woods and Clare Thompson. Alongside his studies he has received masterclasses from artists including Ettore Causa, Pekka Kuusisto and Nobuko Imai and participated in the Seiji Ozawa and Gstaad Menuhin String Academies amongst others. Over the years he has also enjoyed collaborating with composers including Garth Knox, Vasilis Alevizos and Thomas Jones on their new works, with performances in London and at the Agora Music Festival in Luxembourg.
An avid chamber musician, Toby has performed with the Seida and 12 ensembles, musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic and clarinettist Matthew Hunt at HellensMusic festival, with Tabea Zimmermann at the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Gary Hoffman and Antje Weithaas at Kronberg Academy’s ‘Chamber Music Connects the World’, with Claudio Martínez Mehner and Christoph Poppen in Santander, and with members of the ARC ensemble at the Music of Exile Festival in Toronto, Canada. He is part of the Festivalcampus-ensemble at Heidelberger Frühling Festival, designing and performing in a number of events and regularly participates in Open Chamber Music at Prussia Cove, performing in local venues in Cornwall. Toby is passionate about teaching and is a member of the European String Teachers’ Association, with whom he performed at conferences at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, and in Valletta, Europe’s cultural capital in 2018. |
Victor Lim |
Victor's website
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Described as a pianist with ‘with great possibilities of nuance and perfect flexibility’ (Revista Arta), South Korean-British pianist Victor Lim is establishing himself as one of the most versatile and creative young musicians in the UK. Following his first public appearance in the televised 2012 BBC Young Musician of the Year, Victor has performed throughout the UK and worldwide. Victor is a City Music Foundation Artist, Making Music UK’s Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artist and the winner of the 2021 RNCM Gold Medal. Victor’s broad repertoire and interest in new music has led to recent work with Thomas Adès, Graham Fitkin and Stephen Hough. His affinity with the music of Beethoven has been recognised by two awards from the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe, whilst he also has a great personal passion for the works of Robert Schumann. He regularly performs with Manchester Collective, Manchester Camerata and Royal Northern Sinfonia, and will give a performance of Graham Fitkin’s ‘Granite’ with BBC Philharmonic in September 2023. In addition to his performing career, Victor is the Head of Keyboard Studies at Rossall School and works closely with Olympias Music Foundation and Fingertips ASBL. Victor is also the Associate Artist of International Young Musicians Academy and a Leverhulme Fellow of Pro Corda. Victor studied at Wells Cathedral School, Royal Northern College of Music, Royal Academy of Music and Norwegian Academy of Music where his teachers have included John Byrne, Richard Ormrod, Graham Scott, Jeremy Young, Murray Mclachlan and Kathryn Scott.