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Irvine
Arditti (violin) photo Robin D'amore
In addition to his phenomenal career as
first violinist of the Arditti Quartet, Irvine Arditti continues
to excel as an extraordinary soloist. Born in London in 1953, Irvine
Arditti began his studies at the Royal Academy of Music at the age
of 16. He joined the London Symphony Orchestra in 1976 and after
two years, at the age of 25, became its Co-Concert Master. He left
the orchestra in 1980 in order to devote more time to the Arditti
Quartet which he had formed while still a student.
During
the past decade Irvine Arditti has given the world premières
of a plethora of large scale works especially written for him. These
include Xenakis' Dox Orkh and Hosokawa's Landscape
III , both for violin and orchestra, as well as Ferneyhough's
Terrain , Francesconi's Riti Neurali , Dillon's
Vernal Showers and Harvey's Scena , all for violin
and ensemble. He has appeared with many distinguished orchestras
and ensembles including the Bayerische Rundfunk, BBC Symphony, Berlin
Radio Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw, Junge Deutsche Philharmonie,
Munich Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Paris, Het Residentie
den Hague, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Asko Ensemble, Ensemble Contrechamps
, London Sinfonietta , Nieuw Ensemble, Nouvel Ensemble Modern, Oslo
Sinfonietta, Schoenberg Ensemble. His performances of many concertos
have won acclaim by their composers, in particular Ligeti and Dutilleux.
In
February 2007 there was a premier in the Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam
of a new work for violin and ensemble by Sciarrino called
Le Stagioni Artificiali with the Nieuw Ensemble. The work
was repeated in Enschede and Brussels at the Ars Musica
Festival . Also in Amsterdam Vita Nova (sérénades)
by Brice Pauset was premiered. Vita
Nova was heard for the first time in the UK at the
Huddersfield festival, again with the Nieuw Ensemble.
Cage's
Freeman Etudes was heard in Milano Musica Festival in
early October and Nono's La Lontananza was performed with
Andre Richard in London on the South Bank on October 31st.
In
late March 2008 their will be 3 performances of a new work for violin
and orchestra by Miguel Galvez Taroncher in Valencia and the surrounding
area.
As
well as having recorded over 150 CDs with the Arditti Quartet, Irvine
Arditti has built an impressive catalogue of solo recordings. His
CD of solo violin works by composers such as Carter, Estrada, Ferneyhough
and Donatoni, as well as his recording of Nono's La Lontananza
, both on the label Mon taigne Auvidis, have been awarded numerous
prizes. His recording of Cage's Freeman Etudes for solo
violin, as part of his complete Cage violin music series for American
label Mode, has made musical history. The series is now complete.
The violin concertos by Berio, Xenakis and Mira, recorded in Moscow
with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, are featured on a disc by
Swedish label Bis.
Mode
has just released Irvine Arditti's arrangement for Quartet of Cage's
44 Harmonies from Apartment House.
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