Over the past year FENELLA HUMPHREYS has performed as soloist at prestigious venues including London’s South Bank Centre, Cheltenham’s Pump Room and the Teatro Coliseo in Buenos Aires. She was a 2006 Park Lane Group Young Artist, and received the Making Music Federation’s 2005 Philip and Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists.
Solo and chamber performances have included broadcasts for BBC Radio 3, Classic FM, DeutschlandRadio Berlin and West-Deutsche-Rundfunk as well as appearances around Europe, North and South America and Israel. In September 2006, Fenella joined the ESO and John Gibbons to perform the Walton Concerto at the composer’s home at the invitation of the Walton Trust, to open the newly built Greek Theatre, and celebrate the 80th birthday of Lady Walton.
A busy chamber musician, Fenella has performed with such artists as Alexander Baillie, Hariolf Schlichtig, Pekka Kuusisto and Martin Lovett, and is regularly invited to take part in the celebrated Open Chamber Music at IMS Prussia Cove. She is violinist with piano trio, the Lawson Trio. In addition to a busy concert schedule, the trio gives workshops and masterclasses in association with the Schubert Ensemble and the Chamber Music 2000 scheme.
Fenella is also in demand as orchestral leader, working regularly with the Deutsche Kammerakademie in Germany both as leader and director. She has participated in masterclasses with musicians including the Florestan Trio, Melos Quartet, Takács Quartet, Lorand Fenyves, Thomas Brandis, Thomas Riebl and Krzysztof Penderecki.
Fenella studied with Sidney Griller CBE and Itzhak Rashkovsky whilst a scholar at the Purcell School. She was subsequently a scholar at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, learning with David Takeno. She completed postgraduate studies in Ida Bieler’s class at the Robert Schumann Hochschule, Düsseldorf, whilst in Andreas Reiner’s chamber music class at the Folkwang-Hochschule, Essen.
Fenella is fortunate to play a 1749 Julius Cesare Gigli violin on loan from Colin G. Nicholls, and a Tubbs bow belonging to Alan Mann.
You can keep up to date with Fenella’s concerts on: www.myspace.com/fenellahumphreys
November 2007