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Pavel Haas Quartet

The Pavel Haas Quartet is a string quartet founded in 2002, since when it has a won a number of international awards.
Named after the Czech composer Pavel Haas (1899–1944), who was deported from Czechoslovakia in 1941 and died in the Auschwitz concentration camp, the quartet is made up of violinists Veronika Jarůškova and Kateřina Gemrotová, violist Pavel Nikl, and cellist Peter Jarůšek.
The Pavel Haas Quartet has won the 2004 "Vittorio E.

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Christine Rice

Mezzo-soprano Christine Rice studied at the Royal Northern College of Music. She’s sung at a variety of venues in the UK, Europe and North America, including the BBC Promenade Concerts, the Edinburgh Festival, Covent Garden’s Royal Opera House, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, the Teatro Real Madrid and Seattle Opera.

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Andrew Kennedy

Andrew Kennedy (born in Ashington, England) is an English tenor.
In 2005, he won the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Rosenblatt Recital Prize.
Andrew is represented by Intermusica. His discography includes "Warlock - The Curlew & songs by Peter Warlock" (2006) with Simon Lepper and Pavao Quartet and "Vaughan Williams - On Wenlock Edge" (2008) with the Dante Quartet. http://www.intermusica.co.uk/kennedy

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Colin Currie

Percussionist Colin Currie has established a unique reputation for his charismatic and virtuosic performances of works by today's leading composers, and has appeared with many of the world's most important orchestras - the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Philadelphia Orchestra among them. Regularly commissioning and recording new works, he has made an inspirational and innovative contribution to percussion repertoire.

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Janine Jansen

Janine Jansen (Utrecht, 1978) is a Dutch solo violinist. Janine Jansen is internationally recognised as one of the great violinists and a truly exciting and versatile artist. Her London debut in November 2002, with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Vladimir Ashkenazy, was quickly followed by invitations from some of the world

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Alban Gerhardt

Alban Gerhardt (born in 1969) is a German cellist. He has performed as a soloist with many internationally known orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2009 he preformed as a soloist at the Proms in the Albert Hall.
Gerhardt was born in Berlin, where his father was a violinist in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. He took up both the piano and the cello at the age of eight. Gerhardt's first public performance came on February 22, 1987, when he played Haydn's Cello Concerto No.

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