Pavlos Carvalho and Miriam Teppich take the stage for a concert of stunning music for violin and cello. The concert will feature the remarkable Duo for violin and cello by Kodály.
Pavlos Carvalho started his musical studies with his father Santiago and then Stephen Popov. After gaining a BA in Ancient History he went to the Royal College of Music to study with Steven Doane and, later, Jerome Pernoo. There, supported by a scholarship from the RCM and the Countess of Munster Trust, he graduated with distinction in solo and chamber music performance. He continued at the RCM as a Junior Fellow and assistant teacher of cello to Jerome Pernoo.
As a cellist Pavlos appears regularly as a soloist and chamber musician in the UK and abroad with a wide-ranging repertoire from baroque through to twentieth century music. He makes regular appearances at the Brighton festival where he annually performs the six cello suites by Bach and has performed all the major cello concertos with orchestras around the country. He has won numerous prizes, including the Koblenz Chamber Music competition in Germany, the International Taneev competition in Russia, the Tunnell Trust in Scotland and the Kirckman Award in London – with Trio Belle Epoque.
He also performed with the LPO Chamber Ensemble with whom he held a residency at Cambridge University giving concerts and masterclasses there. He has also recently recorded for BBC radio.
Pavlos has appeared in venues such as the Purcell Room, Cadogan Hall, the Royal Albert Hall and the Royal Festival Hall in London, St. David's Hall and the Millenium centre in Cardiff, and the Teatro dal Verme, Milan. Pavlos has also taken part in many master classes, including a BBC televised class given by Lynn Harrell and the Manchester Cello Festival with Janos Starker. As an adjudicator he has taken part in festivals all over the country including the National Chamber Music Festival for Pro Corda.
A large part of Pavlos’ musical life is dedicated to outreach work and he has been a member of the Live Music Now scheme.
Miriam Teppich is a member of London Mozart Players and has been invited as Guest Principal with orchestras in the UK such as London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Mozart Players, Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra of English National Opera, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. She has also led the Norwegian Opera Orchestra in Oslo.
Miriam was born in London and won the Frederick Grinke Scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music with Sheila Nelson, continuing her studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with David Takeno and Mark Knight and later at the Paris Conservatoire with Boris Garlitski and Jean Jaques Kanterow. She was a string finalist in BBC Young Musician of the Year in 1996 and the following year won the Julius Isserlis Scholarship from the Royal Philharmonic Society.
In the UK Miriam won many prizes for solo and chamber music playing including the Rose Bowl in the Guildhall Gold Medal for a performance of Bartok's 1st Violin Concerto in the Barbican Hall, London. She has also received awards from the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund, the Hattori Foundation and the Rotary Club of Great Britain and played in masterclasses with Lorand Fenyves at the International Musician's Seminar at Prussia Cove, Cornwall as well as attending the Aspen Festival in Colorado, USA.
Whilst in Paris, Miriam led the chamber orchestra Jeune Orchestre Lyrique Francais as well as the orchestra of Academie de XXème Siècle under the baton of Pierre Boulez.
Miriam has made solo and chamber music appearances at the Purcell Room, the Wigmore Hall and the Royal Albert Hall. A duo partnership with pianist Elli Spacova was formed in 1999 and recitals have been well received in London and Paris. Miriam has also performed concertos by Barber, Bruch, Elgar, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky and Brahms with various orchestras in the UK.