Australian violinist Kirsten Le Strange moved to London in 1998 to do post graduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music studying with Lydia Mordkovich, for which she received a DipRAM. Kirsten was a prize winner and finalist of the Australian Young Performer of the Year Award and the Tibor Varga (Switzerland) competitions and has performed as a soloist with Sydney and Melbourne Symphony orchestras, Baden Baden Philharmonie, Oxford Sinfonia and the orchestras of the Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Royal Academy music schools.
Kirsten has been guest concert master of the Rotterdam Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC Concert Orchestra and as Principal Second of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. She has performed contemporary music extensively with the IXION and Plus Minus new music ensembles. Since 2006 she has been a member of the Royal Covent Garden Opera and Ballet Orchestra.
English pianist Roderick Chadwick was born in Manchester in 1974, and studied at St Catharine’s College Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music. Widely active as a soloist and chamber musician, he has performed at many of Britain’s most prominent venues, including the Free Trade Hall in Manchester, Wigmore Hall, and the Aldeburgh, Buxton, Brighton and Huddersfield Festivals. He made his London South Bank debut playing the Tippett Piano Concerto at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. A devotee of contemporary repertoire, he has given world premieres of numerous works, and performs regularly with ensembles such as CHROMA, New Music Players and Plus-Minus. He made the first of many broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 at the age of 14, and has also broadcast in France, Japan and South Korea, amongst other countries.
Roderick Chadwick collaborates regularly with violinists Chloë Hanslip and Narimichi Kawabata, with whom he has performed at venues such as Seoul Arts Centre, Auditorium du Louvre, Schloss Elmau and Tokyo Opera City. He has recently featured on releases made by Guild Records, Innova (US) and Victor (Japan). Roderick lives in London is a member of the teaching staff at the Royal Academy of Music.
