quotes
“Young virtuoso...”
– The Times
“Very good violinist!”
– Maxim Vengerov
“Great!”
– Sir James Galway
audio player
Track 1 from First Edition, recorded in London at Henry Wood Hall. Zigeunerweisen by Pablo de Sarasate played by Alan Parmenter (violin) and Florian Uhlig (piano). Recording by Andrew Keener (producer), Phil Rowlands (engineer) and Patrick Phillips (assistant).
disc
First Edition CD now available online and instore from Harold Moores Records.
live
20th Century Theatre
Parmenter Plays Bach Part 3
April 29th 2012
3pm concert, 2.30pm doors/bar
Sonata in A minor BWV 1003
Partita in E major BWV 1006
biography
Alan Parmenter began violin lessons at his own request at the age of seven with Donis Albanis, then studied with Ellen Martin of London's Junior Academy. Having been awarded a full choral and music scholarship at Colet Court and St Paul's School, he gained a further scholarship to the Royal College of Music Junior Department to study with Dona Lee Croft. He studied chamber music at Pro Corda, the national school for young chamber music players, for six years.
A Martin Musical Scholarship Fund, Robert Lewin and Geoffrey Shaw award winner, he has participated in Dartington International Summer School, the MusicAlp festival academy at Courchevel and the Cambridge Symposium. He has appeared in masterclasses with Hugh Bean, Rodney Friend, Bela Katona, Yfrah Neaman, Martin Lovett, Gyorgy Pauk, Ruggiero Ricci, Maxim Vengerov, and Reka Szilvay- of the Sibelius Academy.
At nineteen Alan spent a year touring his solo Bach programme in London, France and New York, then, having been awarded an Ash scholarship, he entered the Royal College of Music to continue his studies with the celebrated leader of the New York Philharmonic, Rodney Friend. He graduated in 2007 with a First Class Honours degree.
During the summer of 2007 Alan was invited to join the Academy of St Martin in the Fields for their Mozart festival at the Barbican, and later took part in their extensive tour of Germany.
Since 2007 he has performed as a soloist at the Chelsea Arts Club, Savage Club, Savile Club and London Sketch Club, also the Liberal Jewish Synagogue and the Central, St John's Wood and Hendon orthodox synagogues. Each of these appearances led to a return invitation. In 2010 Alan recorded his first CD, First Edition, a recital disc of virtuosic and artistic works for violin with piano. In 2011 he was selected as a violin string assessor by Thomastik Infeld, and completed a series of four sold-out solo appearances, in Vienna. In December 2011 he performed a solo Bach recital, at London's 20th Century Theatre, to a standing ovation.
Alan plays a violin made by Mateo Gofriller in 1720.
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