Biography

Chloë Hanslip studied at the Menuhin School with Natasha Boyarskaya between the ages of five and seven, at Lord Menuhin’s personal invitation. She then moved to Germany to continue her studies with the Russian pedagogue Zakhar Bron at the age of seven. In recent years she has also been working with Gerhard Schulz, of the world renowned Alban Berg Quartet, who she met at Prussia Cove. She has also worked with Salvatore Accardo in Cremona.

Chloë has recorded two highly successful CDs with the London Symphony Orchestra on the Warner Classics label. The first won her the “Echo Klassik Award for Best Newcomer” in Germany in 2002 and the second – Bruch Violin Concerti Nos. 1 and 3 – has received great critical acclaim in the UK, in Europe, in Korea and in America. This CD also won her the “Young British Classical Performer” Award at the Classical BRITS 2003.

Chloë is a regular performer at the Royal Albert Hall, Barbican, Wigmore Hall, Fairfield Hall and at the South Bank, where she first played at the age of four. She has also played in some of the most prestigious halls around the world including Carnegie Hall, the Louvre Museum, Salle Gaveau, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the Musikverein and Seoul Arts Centre. Her concert tours have taken her to America, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Malaysia, Portugal, Russia, Scandinavia, Serbia, and Switzerland.

In the UK she performs at the Henley, Windsor, Chelsea, Harrogate, Canterbury, Chester, Kenwood and the Mostly Mozart Festivals. Bryn Terfel personally invited her as the first-ever instrumentalist to play in the Opera Night at his Faenol Festival, where she performed an arrangement of the second movement of Rodrigo’s “Concierto de Aranjuez” for Voice and Violin with him. She also gave the World Premiere of the first extract of Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s “Phantasia on Phantom of the Opera” at his Sydmonton Festival in 2003 with Julian Lloyd-Webber, to great acclaim from the composer.

Chloë made her debut at the BBC Proms in 2002 and is a regular performer on BBC Radio3 and ClassicFM. Numerous concerts have been broadcast live in the UK, France, Germany, Russia, Israel and Korea and she is recognized for her contribution to the Maxim Vengerov 'Master Class' and documentary.

As a soloist she has performed with the London Symphony Orchestra, Academy of St. Martins in the Fields, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Halle, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra and the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. The conductors she has worked with include Libor Pesek, Richard Hickox, Leonard Slatkin, Yuri Bashmet, Gerard Schwarz, Gianandrea Noseda, Martyn Brabbins, Claus Peter Flor, Dmitri Sitkovetsky, Paul Freeman, Rumon Gamba and Owain Arwel Hughes. She made her U.S. concerto debut with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and Andreas Delfs in 2003.

Chloë recently made her debut with Mariss Jansons and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerische Rundfunk in the Gasteig, Munich opening their subscription series with two performances of the Sibelius Violin Concerto. She has given the European Premiere of Sir John Tavener’s “Ikon of Eros,” an epic piece for Solo Violin, Soprano, Tenor, Orchestra and Choir, with the City of London Sinfonia and Patricia Rozario. In October 2005 she made her debut with Tamás Vásáry and the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra playing the Khachaturian Concerto.

When she was ten, Chloë was chosen to feature as the “infant prodigy violinist” in the film adaptation of Pushkin’s ”Evgeny Onegin,” which starred Ralph Fiennes and Liv Tyler. Chloë has also performed for His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh on two occasions – at Frogmore House, Windsor and in the Chapel of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.

Chamber Music has become an integral part of Chloë’s life in the last few years. She is a regular attendee at Prussia Cove’s Open Chamber Music, working with Steven Isserlis and Gerhard Schulz. In 2005 she received a personal invitation from Seiji Ozawa to attend his inaugural Chamber Music Festival in Blonay, Switzerland. She has also performed at the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Finland and in 2006 she will join the Prussia Cove Tour, culminating in a concert at Wigmore Hall. Re-invitations will see her return to Blonay and Kuhmo in 2006.

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Reviews

The Independent Thurs. October 13, 2005, Roderick Dunnett
(Bavarian Radio Sibelius Concerto and Chorus/Jansons, Philharmonie, MÜNICH ****)
”Janson’s soloist in Sibelius’s Violin Concerto was the beguiling Chloë Hanslip, a sizzling young product of the Yehudi Menuhin School. Hanslip produces a full-blooded sound: her wide-spaced vibrato and powerful resonances rendered her an expressive, idiosyncratic advocate of the Sibelius: intense, passionate, not without cheeky waywardness. Her dazzling technical proficiency made sparks fly in the finale. Hanslip’s high spirits whipped you along: tussling with tympani and bassoon, teasing out the allegro’s long-lined big tune, slyly echoing herself in the adagio, or sweeping up to the laughing harmonics in the finale, she delighted the Munich audience.”

German Press - GasteigFrankfurter Allgemeine October 8, 2005, Wolfgang Sandner
(Mariss Jansons & BRSO Sibelius Concerto October 6 and 7, 2005)
“…She is without doubt an extraordinary talent. The extreme demands of this piece, dotted with double-stops, trill-melody-combination, many unaccompanied cadenzas, solo passages and rhythmic finesse were hardly a problem for her…”

Abendzeitung Munchen October 8, 2005, Volker Boser
(Mariss Jansons & BRSO Sibelius Concerto October 6 and 7, 2005)
“The 18 year old English Chloë Hanslip is a discovery. She played the violin concerto by Sibelius with a billowing, gripping tone. …a glowing advocate against all those who believe that only classical strictness can lead to success. …A gigantic talent!”

Helsingin Sanomat January 8, 2005, Hannu-Ilari Lampila
(Kymi Sinfonietta, Pietari Inkinen, Tchaikovsky Concerto)
"17 year old British girl Chloë Hanslip is a brilliant violinist. Petite, graceful and joyful Chloë Hanslip is a sensational, impressive talent. Tchaikovsky's violin concerto suits her romantic mentality well. She has a beautiful timbre, emotionally glowing melody lines and also a deep power. It would be wrong to say that this young artist is only a romantic sentimental girl because she is also full of energy which gives her the ability of phenomenal, vivid and spirited virtuosity."

The Independent March 16, 2004, Nicholas Pike
(Philharmonie of the Nations, Justus Franz, Tchaikovsky Concerto)
"The astonishingly talented Chloë Hanslip soloed in the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto... In the soulful middle movement she was soft but steely, delicate in detail yet catching the composer’s typical feeling of freshly released hormones in full charge... The common factor right through was a subtle ear for tuning: sharps and flats felt exactly right, whatever the pace, and you can’t say that of too many violinists of any age."

The Strad February 2003, Joanne Talbot
(Wigmore Hall Recital)
"Throughout this recital one had to marvel at her gloriously free bowing arm and sense of bow planning which ensured an even tone in phrasing.…giving a beautifully sensitive account of Chausson's Poeme, with a particularly fine shaping of the chromatically hued melodic line. ... Here (Saint-Saens/Ysaye Waltz Caprice) Hanslip admirably displayed not only her dextrous fluency, but also a grace and wit entirely suited to the work."

Daily Telegraph October 19, 2002, Geoffrey Norris
(Bruch Violin Concerti Nos 1 & 3)
"... her new recording of the G minor Concerto and the Third Concerto in D minor with the London Symphony Orchestra... has an appealing freshness. Her playing is warm, thoroughly rounded and finished.... youthfully mature artistry."

June 2006
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