Beverley Davison
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Genres | Classical music |
Occupation(s) | Musician |
Instrument | Violin |
Labels | Cameo Classics Records |
Website | www |
Beverley Davison is a British violin virtuoso, currently fronting an act she founded called Classical Cabaret: Hot Strings (ensemble) or "Classical Cabaret Duo" (solo with piano).[1]
Biography
The daughter of conductor Arthur Davison, at the age of nine, she was selected for the Yehudi Menuhin School where she studied violin with Yehudi Menuhin himself.[2] At 21, she was invited to guest-lead London Sinfonietta and Fires of London. She continued her studies at the Royal Academy and performed with the London Schools' Symphony Orchestra.[1]
At the age of 21 she joined Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' Fires of London.[1] Suffering from stage fright and eating disorders she stopped performing at the age of 25, and worked in various jobs including as a beauty therapist, a driving instructor, and in telesales.[1] She returned to music when she took a teaching post at the Birmingham School of Music.[1] She formed Hot Strings in 1990, after turning down an offer from Simon Rattle to be co-leader of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.[1]
Davison collaborated with Rudolf Nureyev on a ballet based on Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire. On the Cameo Classics label, she has recorded Carl Nielsen's Violin concerto and Mozart's Violin Concerto in D Major. She has taught the violin at the University of Surrey in Guildford and has tutored at the summer orchestral course, ECSOC, In Guernsey, Channel Islands.
Davison has performed with Bolshoi Orchestra, Rambert Orchestra, Birmingham Royal Orchestra, English National Orchestra and Harlem Ballet Orchestras, the Michael Nyman Band and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.
References
- ^ a b c d e f Mowbray, Christopher (1993) "With strings, but no hang-ups: Christopher Mowbray tells how a musical prodigy who hated performing came back on her own terms", The Independent, 10 February 1993, retrieved 2011-07-30
- ^ Miles, Rosalind (1994) The Children We Deserve, Harper Collins, p. 108
External links
- Classical Cabaret
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albums
- Decay Music
- 'The Masterwork' Award Winning Fish-Knife
- Michael Nyman
- The Draughtsman's Contract
- The Cold Room
- The Kiss and Other Movements
- A Zed & Two Noughts
- And Do They Do/Zoo Caprices
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
- Drowning by Numbers
- La Traversée de Paris
- The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover
- Out of the Ruins
- La Sept
- String Quartets 1–3
- Prospero's Books
- The Michael Nyman Songbook
- The Hairdresser's Husband
- The Essential Michael Nyman Band
- Time Will Pronounce
- The Piano
- Michael Nyman for Yohji Yamamoto
- The Piano Concerto/MGV
- À la folie
- Live
- Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs
- Carrington
- The Diary of Anne Frank
- After Extra Time
- The Ogre
- Enemy Zero
- Concertos
- Gattaca
- The Suit and the Photograph
- Strong on Oaks, Strong on the Causes of Oaks
- Practical Magic
- Ravenous
- Wonderland
- The Commissar Vanishes
- Nabbie's Love
- The End of the Affair
- The Claim
- String Quartets 2, 3 & 4/If & Why
- Facing Goya
- 24 Heures de la vie d'une femme
- Sangam: Michael Nyman Meets Indian Masters
- The Actors
- Man and Boy: Dada
- The Piano Sings
- The Libertine
- The Composer's Cut Series Vol. I: The Draughtsman's Contract
- The Composer's Cut Series Vol. II: Nyman/Greenaway Revisited
- The Composer's Cut Series Vol. III: The Piano
- Six Celan Songs • The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi
- Acts of Beauty • Exit no Exit
- Nyman Brass
- Love Counts
- Mozart 252
- 8 Lust Songs: I Sonetti Lussuriosi
- The Glare
- Acoustic Accordions
- The Pavilion of Dreams
- The Sensual World
- Piano Circus
- Taking a Line for a Second Walk
- Twentieth-Century Blues: The Songs of Noel Coward
- Generation Sex
- Pure Moods
- The Very Best of Michael Nyman: Film Music 1980–2001
- Man on Wire
- Tristram Shandy
- Letters, Riddles and Writs
- Vital Statistics
- La Princesse de Milan
film scores
compositions
- Memorial
- MGV
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