Fenella Humphreys
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Winner of the 2018 Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Music Magazine Instrumental Award, violinist Fenella Humphreys enjoys a busy career focusing on chamber music and solo work. Her playing has been described in the press as ‘amazing’ (The Scotsman) and ‘a wonder’ (IRR). A champion of new and unknown music, a number of eminent British composers have written for Fenella. Works include a set of 6 works for solo violin from composers including Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Sally Beamish and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. She has been fortunate to record these over 2 critically acclaimed CDs for Champs Hill Records, both chosen by Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Music Magazine as Instrumental disc of the month with 5 Star reviews, and the second also picked as Editor’s Choice in Gramophone Magazine. Described on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3’s Record Review as an ‘absolutely exquisite album’, and a Recommended Recording in the Strad Magazine, Fenella’s new CD, ‘So Many Stars’ with Nicola Eimer was released on Stone Records in the spring. Her latest album, Max Richter’s Four Seasons Recomposed on Rubicon Classics has been chosen as Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Music Magazine’s Concerto Choice, Scala’s Album of the Week, and included in Apple Music’s Classical A-List. Fenella’s teachers have included Sidney Griller CBE, Itzhak Rashkovsky, Ida Bieler and David Takeno, studying at the Purcell School, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and the Robert-Schumann-Hochschule in Düsseldorf graduating with the highest attainable marks.
