Music Chamber

Born in 1964, Kyle Horch is one of Britain’s leading saxophonists. After studying at Northwestern University (Chicago) with Frederick Hemke and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London) with Stephen Trier, he made his London solo debut in 1989. Since then he has performed as a soloist at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, British and World Saxophone Congresses, and numerous other venues in Britain and abroad. His two CD recordings on the Clarinet Classics label, ChamberSax and AngloSax, have received international praise from reviewers. He has a long-held interest in Ian Stewart’s music, and their collaborations have resulted in the creation of numerous solo and chamber works for saxophone, two of which he recorded on Ian’s CD, San Gejtanu. Apart from solo performing, Kyle’s work as a freelance musician has involved him in performing across a wide range of music: Royal Philhamonic Orchestra, Royal Opera House, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Rambert Dance Company, Counterpoise, his own ensemble ‘Flotilla’, and the Piccadilly Dance Orchestra. He is saxophone professor at the Royal College of Music in London.

Guillem Calvo Martínez de Albéniz (Barcelona, 1985) started his musical career with the Suzuki method and directed by Albert Sarria. He studied with Evelio Tielen and Heriberto Fonseca at the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceo and he obtained the degrees of Violin and Chamber music. During those years he also received several prizes for chamber music with the Quartet Yes "and" Quartet Gaudí. He also has worked with the JUNCO, Germany Interregional Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Academy of Liceu. In 2003 he entered to the Royal College of Music in London to study violin with Yossi Zivoni and in 2008 he made an advanced soloists Master with Shmuel Ashkenasi the Musikhochschule in Lübeck (Germany). He has been member of the RCM Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra and he has collaborated with the BBC Symphony, the European Camerata and the London Symphony. In these formations he had teachers like Bernard Haitink, Sir Strain Davis, Sir Neville Marriner, Sir Charles Makerras, Valery Gergiev and Sir Roger Norrington, among others. At the same time, Guillem Calvo is member of several chamber groups and has worked with pianists such as Pau Casan and Mercè Roca-Ritook. Other stable formations with which he has worked are Altissimo Ensemble of London, the Ensemble Barcelona Martin and Company Artistic Cre.Art Project, with which he has performed all over Spain and England, and has recorded several CDs and DVDs.

Pavel Timofejevsky, pianist and composer, began his music studies at the age of six at the Gnessin Music School in Russia. In 1995 he joined the Purcell School where he was a full scholar and won a number of prestigious awards and national competitions including the BBC Proms/Guardian Young Composer of the Year award. Pavel studied at the Royal Academy of Music from 2002 where he received the Leslie England Award for his final recital. Following his graduation, Pavel was invited to perform solo in the Queen Elizabeth Hall as part of the Shostakovitch centenary festival. At RAM, he was awarded the John Ireland prize, the Michael Head prize for best accompanist, a special prize at the Jacques Samuels Piano Competition, as well as a prize at the Beethoven Society Intercollegiate Competition, with a resulting performance at St. James, Piccadilly. In 2005, Pavel recorded the soundtrack and starred as young Tchaikovsky in the documentary film “Tchaikovsky” for the US “Biography TV” channel. Two years later he was commissioned to compose the soundtrack for the feature-length documentary “Le fin de la belle époque” for Russian TV. During Pavel’s time on the Postgraduate Diploma in Performance course at RAM, he was the recipient of the Musician Benevolent Fund Award, the 2007 Myra Hess Award, and the Philharmonia Orchestra Martin Musical Scholarship Fund Award. Pavel also received RAM 2008 Janet Duff Greet Prize for the best performance of twentieth century music, for his performance of Prokofiev Piano Sonata No 4. In September 2007, Pavel was invited to join the ‘Live Music Now’ concert scheme with his Philomel Duo partner, violinist Kokila Gillett and has subsequently performed in a variety of community venues throughout the UK.