Mizuka Yamamoto (violin): Mizuka Yamamoto has performed throughout the UK as a violin soloist, specialising in contemporary music. She studied at the Tokyo College of Music in Japan (BMus), the Royal College of Music in U.K. (PGDip), and is currently studying late twentieth-century solo violin repertoire for a PhD at Goldsmiths College, where she previously gained a MMus. She studies with Irvine Arditti. She has worked with many living composers, and performed with many acclaimed pianists.
"An impassioned rendering of The Worker’s Song, composed in 1979 for solo violin and played by Mizuka Yamamoto, received the most powerful applause of the day."
(from Richard Gott's review of a Cornelius Cardew concert in the Guardian, 4th November 2008)
Androniki Liokoura (piano): studied piano in Greece and UK achieving a Masters with Distinction in piano performance from Trinity College of Music. She has taken part in several courses and masterclasses and has studied with numerous well known pianists including Martino Tirimo, Douglas Finch, Yonty Solomon, Ian Pace, Andrew Zolinsky, Alan Fraser, Bernard Regainnesen. She has given recitals in various venues in Greece, England, Poland and Portugal, performing solo and ensemble works and specialising in 20th Century music (in 2003 she won the John Halford competition for contemporary music). November 2008 saw the publication of Androniki’s edition of Cornelius Cardew’s We Sing For The Future for solo piano (available from Danny Dark Records here).
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