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 Pt 2
March 4th 2012
3pm concert, 2.30pm doors/bar
Partita in B minor BWV 1002
Sonata in C major BWV 1005
biography
Alan began studying the violin at the age of seven with the distinguished Paris-trained composer Donis Albanis. A scholarship then took him to the Royal College of Music Junior Department, where he studied with the notably gifted Texas-born teacher Dona Lee Croft. At nineteen he spent a year touring his solo Bach programme in London, France and New York. He then entered the Royal College of Music senior department, where he was accepted as a special dispensation as the last student of the celebrated soloist and youngest ever leader of the New York Philharmonic orchestra, Rodney Friend.
Since graduating with a First Class degree from the Royal College Alan has concentrated on building a career as soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. He has appeared at venues throughout London, including the Wigmore Hall, St John’s Smith Square, Kneller Hall, Saddlers’ Hall, Queen’s House, National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Trinity House, Tower of London, the Victoria and Albert Museum and Leighton House.
Alan has won many awards and performed at music festivals throughout the UK and abroad, including the Courchevel MusicAlp Festival and Dartington International Summer School. He has appeared in masterclasses with Ruggiero Ricci, Gyorgy Pauk, Maxim Vengerov, Hugh Bean, Bela Katona and Reka Szilvay of the Sibelius Academy. He was also selected to perform Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole in Amiens, France to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, and invited to join the Academy of St Martin in the Fields for the Mozart festival at the Barbican and an extensive tour of Germany.
Alan has committed himself to building artistry along with technique, aiming to combine the modern methods of Kodaly, Sevcik and Flesch with the faithfully conveyed wisdom of grandteachers Galamian, Katona, Milstein and Szeryng and great-grandteachers Joachim and Auer. While a music scholar at St. Paul’s School, Barnes, Alan had the honour of giving the first ever musical performance before Apposition, a ceremony now more than 500 years old. In April 2010 he recorded his first CD with Florian Uhlig, produced by Andrew Keener.
Alan plays a beautiful violin made by Matteo Gofriller in 1720, kindly provided for him by an anonymous benefactor.
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