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kammerspiel piano trio
One of the UK's leading Piano Trios, Kammerspiel was
formed at the Kammerspiel Theatre in
Hamburg
in 1993.
Their
London debut led to offers to perform in the USA, Spain,
Greece, Sweden, Eire, and throughout the UK, where their
performances were greeted with great enthusiasm from
the public and critics
alike. Within a year they had secured a recording contract
with Timbre Records.
Their two recordings have received wide critical acclaim
- the second is a CD of works by Irish
composer Ian Wilson and includes two new works
commissioned by Kammerspiel, with the generous help of the
Arts Council
of Northern Ireland. With regular broadcasts on Radio 3 and
Classic FM, and an increasingly busy concert schedule both
at home and
abroad, it is
not surprising that that Kammerspiel have been described
as "one of this country's most exciting chamber ensembles."
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 stephen
morris (violin)
Since graduating from the Royal Academy of
Music with it's highest award, the Recital Diploma, Stephen
Morris has enjoyed a career of enormous variety. He has performed
and broadcast throughout the World with the Medici String
Quartet, Kammerspiel Trio, The Nash Ensemble, The Scottish
Ensemble, Nigel Kennedy, The Dave Heath Band and guitarist
Jason Carter.
He has broadcast regularly for BBC Radio 3, France TF1,
Classic FM, BBC TV, Channel 4 and recorded for Sony Classics,
Timbre Records and Koch Schwann Records.
He has appeared as soloist/director with the Scottish Ensemble,
The Southern Chamber Orchestra and the Locrian Ensemble and
his enthusiasm for new music has led to projects with composers
Piers Hellawell, Ian Wilson, Richard Chew, Eero Hameenniemi
and George Fenton.
He has also performed with Madonna, Corduroy, The Passadenas,
Oasis, Portishead and Skunk Anansie and in addition to regularly
performing music for film he has recently appeared in Francois
Girard's film "The Red Violin".
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 robin
thompson-clarke (cello)
Robin studied cello with Vivian Joseph, Douglas Cummings
and Alexander Cameron at the Royal Academy of Music, where
he won the Sir John Barbirolli Quartet Prize and the esteemed
Gerrard Heller Intercollegiate Quartet Prize. Since leaving
the Academy he has worked as a soloist performing throughout
the world in some of the most prestigious concert venues
including the Moscow Conservatiore, the Royal Albert Hall
and most recently the National Concert Hall in Dublin with
the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland.
As a chamber musician he has toured throughout the UK, Spain,
Germany and France. He has recorded four solo CDs and appeared
as a guest soloist on more than fifty others. Robin also
has a distinguished career as a teacher.
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 paul
bateman (piano)
Paul Bateman studied piano, organ, singing and cello at
the Guildhall School of Music. He started his career as an
accompanist, chamber musician and opera repetiteur - regular
guest coach at the Opera de la Monnaie in Brussels and was
for three years Head of Music Staff at the European Opera
Centre. He then started his conducting career in the West
End with the shows Barnum, Singing in the Rain, The Phantom
of the Opera and Carmen Jones.
Paul has since conducted recordings with the Philharmonia,
Royal Philharmonic, London Symphony, Munich Symphony, Vienna
Symphony and City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestras and has
given concerts with the BBC Concert Orchestra (Hampton Court
Festival '99), the Malmo Symphony Orchestra in Sweden,
the Seville Symphony in Spain, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic,
Royal Scottish National, the Dallas Symphony, the Norwegian
Radio Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony
Orchestra and with the Ulster Orchestra he conducted the 'Last
Night of the Proms' in 1995.
For Silva Screen Records Paul conducted and orchestrated
Lesley Garrett's album 'A Soprano in Hollywood' with
the BBC Concert Orchestra. His orchestrations also appear
on many of Lesley Garrett's albums and he also orchestrated
and conducted Sarah Brightman's last four albums 'Timeless' (including
the big hit 'Time to say Goodbye'), 'Eden', 'La
Luna' and Classics'. His arrangements and orchestrations
also appear on the albums of Jose Carreras, Willard White,
Jason Howard, Tito Beltran, Sally Burgess and Charlotte Church.
As a pianist Paul plays with the Kammerspiel Piano Trio
who have two albums to their credit. He gives solo recitals,
concerto performances and accompanies some of our leading
artists - Lesley Garrett, Anthony Rolfe Johnson and
Jason Howard amongst many others.
Paul recently conducted the Royal Philharmonic at the Hampton
Court Festival and the Royal Festival Hall. 2003 also sees
recordings of Ravel and Chausson with the RPO and concerts
at the Royal Albert Hall and Northampton.
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