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Katie Stillman
Violin - Please also see The Barbirolli Quartet
- 30th January 2012 - Delightful Interplay Between the Players
Katie Stillman (violin) and Simon Lane (piano), recent guests of the Kendal Midday Concert Club, showed themselves to be a wondrously musical chamber partnership""Throughout the Beethoven there was true Classicism with technical sparkle, power, delicacy of touch and beautiful tone always underscoring the delightful interplay between the players"
- 23rd January 2012 - Valentine's Day Concert in Oxford
- 14th February 2012 - 8:00pm - Sumatran Orangutan Society
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Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda's, Oxford - Map
Sumatran Orangutan Society Charity Concert Featuring music by Massenet, Beethoven, Elgar, Gershwin and Respighi - Katie Stillman (violin) and Simon Lane (piano)
Click here to download the press release.
- 29th September 2011 - Stillman joins Junior Trinity Teaching Staff 11-12
As part of the Barbirolli Quartet, Katie has been regularly involved in education work, from one-day school workshops and chamber music masterclasses to long term projects as Quartet in Residence at Highgate School. She is thrilled to have been appointed as a teacher at Junior Trinity, to teach violin and chamber music, and really looks forward to working with her class of students.
Stillman says:
"one of the most exciting prospects in my new role is working with my students long-term, and hearing them develop over time. The way every person learns is different, and I look forward to getting to know that in each of my students as well as challenging them with new ideas and techniques".
- 2nd September 2011 - ABRSM Recording
Katie Stillman and duo partner Simon Lane were delighted to be invited by the Associated Board to record part of the violin Syllabus 2012-2015. Look out for their recordings on the Grade 6 and Grade 4 CD's. Katie and Simon greatly enjoyed the project and found it particularly interesting to use the innovative Yamaha Disklavier grand piano (which enables playalong practice tracks).
- 21st January 2011 - Stillman plays Guadagnini
Katie Stillman is delighted to be playing a a violin by GB Guadagnini Parma on loan from the Royal Academy of Music, London
- 24th February 2010 - Exquisite Playing
- Following closely on the heels of the fantastic reception Katie and Simon were given at Whitstable Music Society, the following quotes are taken from the write up of their recent recital for Saffron Walden and District Music Club."Katie and Simon played [Schubert’s Violin Sonata in G minor D 408] exquisitely, with great charm and a bel canto tone well suited to the work and the Blüthner piano""...Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No 9 in A Op 47 (The Kreutzer Sonata)..was new repertoire for both Katie and Simon, and it was so pleasing to see their huge investment rewarded by such a fine performance. The first movement, with its fiendishly difficult opening, was played with spirit and technical assurance but, above all, with such good ensemble, the players modulating effortlessly between major and minor, in and out of synch, from presto to adagio, and all the while maintaining the obligato edginess. The brilliant variations of the andante second movement were well realised and fully integrated, providing exactly the right contrast and bridge to the finale. And what a finale, the intellectual triumph of Beethoven over adversity expressed as a glorious sparkling rondo, and so well played!"
- 26th October 2009 - Fantastic Reception - Stillman Lane Duo
In addition to her extraodinarily busy schedule of concerts with The Barbirolli Quartet, Katie Stillman is also currently giving a series of nine recitals with duo partner Simon Lane Simon around England and in Scotland. Their recitals, between September and February, draw on a wide range of repertoire (below) and the first few concerts have been greeted with huge enthusiasm and praise from the audiences. Indeed, John Walker who is Chairman of Whitstable Music Society, wrote today "A fantastic concert last night in Whitstable. The audience thought they were wonderful. I can't remember a better violin/piano recital at Whitstable Music Society in the last 20 years - and we have had a few!! "
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Elgar Sonata in E minor, op 82
- Janáček Sonata in A flat minor, JW VII/7
- Ravel Violin Sonata in G major
- Britten 3 pieces from the Suite op. 6
- Ethel Smyth Sonata for violin and piano in A minor, Op. 7
- Beethoven Sonata No. 9 in A major, Op. 47 - Kreutzer
- Strauss Violin Sonata in E flat major, TrV 151
The award winning duo will be making their first recording in May 2010 and further information will be made available here at a later date.
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- 14th April 2009 - Brahms Audio - Worshipful Company of Musicians
Violin and piano duo Katie Stillman and Simon Lane are very grateful to the Worshipful Company of Musicians for inviting them to make a publicity recording of the Brahms Sonata no. 3 in D minor, op.108. If you would like to receive the complete sonata on CD, the recording of which was funded by the Company, please email us giving your name and address. Alternatively you can hear the beginning of each movement via Katie's audio page.
- 15th June 2008 - Talented duo gets series off to good start
Read Katie's latest review, following her recent St. George's Bristol recital with Simon Lane.
- 30th May 2008 - Canadian Duo - 18th June 2008 7.30pm - ROSL Arts
Canadian violin and piano duo Katie Stillman and Miaomiao Yu met while studying at the Young Artists? Performance Academy at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. It is there that they began their first exploration into chamber music together and went on to perform many concerts across Canada . Katie and Miaomiao?s paths diverged when they followed major scholarships to study at separate universities. Now both based in London, Katie and Miaomiao are delighted to renew their collaboration when they perform together on the 18th June 2008 at the Royal Oversea League. More
Their programme will be Beethoven Sonata no 7. in C minor op. 30 no. 2; Stravinsky Duo Concertante; Chopin Andante Spianato and Grand Polonaise; Prokofiev Sonata no. 2.
- 23rd May 2008 - New Audio
Following their recent highly succesful performance at the Wigmore Hall for The Park Lane Group (Monday Platform Series) Katie and Simon are very pleased to be able to make some new audio available. These clips are taken from the live recording made of the concert by Nostromo.
- 20th May 2008 - Tully Potter - The Strad
You might like to read the very latest review which appears in the June issue of The Strad.
- 20th March 2007 - Making Music - selected artists
Recital partners Katie Stillman and Simon Lane are amongst the small selection of artists chosen and recommended by Making Music in the Concert Promoters Network Brochure 2008-2009, to be published in May.
- 6th March 2007 - Royal Overseas League
Following her recent performance in the finals of the Royal Over-Seas League Awards for Musicians from Overseas, with recital partner Simon Lane, Katie was delighted to receive the Edith Phipps Memorial Prize 2007. Please also see the views expressed by Philip Dukes, the internationally recognised viola soloist and one of the adjudicators, which can be read in full in Katie's reviews section.
- 12th January 2007 - Park Lane Group Reviews
If you would like to read the reviews of her recent highly succesful Purcell Room recital with Simon Lane, these are now available on Katie's reviews page.
- 21st September 2006 - Park Lane Group
We are delighted to announce that Katie Stillman and Simon Lane have been selected for the PLG Young Artists New Year Series, following their recent audition.
- 1st July 2006 - Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation
Katie recently became a Wingate Scholar, and is grateful for the support she will be given by the Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation for the next two years.
- 30th June 2006 - CMC Stepping Stones Competition
Katie was delighted to be a prize-winner at the 2006 CMC International Stepping Stones Competition.