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Photoshoot 19 April 2012
On what seemed like it might have been the rainiest day of the year so far we did a mostly outdoor shoot with my long time clients and very good friends Angela & Jennifer Chun, a violin duo. This was our third shoot together and the photos will be used for their 3rd Harmonia Mundi USA CD.
Here are a few previews from the shoot (click here for larger version)
Many thanks to Gemma at Alchemy for the Eye Ltd!
24 April 2012 – Shoot at the Wigmore Hall with Maxim Vengerov for their record label.
Many thanks to Richard Round-Turner and Gemma Aldous
Brand new website for The King’s Singers
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featuring new photos from February photo session at Oh! Studios. Grooming and styling by Phill Tarling
Surreal, and not particularly glamorous, day backstage at a major hip-hop artist’s concert – we arrived at 2pm at Cardiff Motor Point Arena to be ready to photograph Drake at any point. We got our (almost) 4 minutes with him after 8pm, just before he went on, and just after the EPK film crew managed to get what they needed… in 8 minutes!
A great day working with Richard and Shaun and James from the EPK video team. Plus we got to meet supporting act Labrinth’s vocal coach and touring band, all lovely down-to-earth musicians, to get to know Drake’s brilliant tour manager Jamil D and to make our own smoothies in the crew dining room.
Now on train back to Paddington…
I’m sitting here retouching listening to Robert Holl and Oleg Maisenberg’s 2006 recording of Winterreise; so was reminded of this photo of Mr Maisenberg taken at Potton Hall a few years ago:
New upcoming Jean-Efflam Bavouzet Chandos CD release – the first of three sets of three CD sets which will combine to give a complete, chronological cycle of Beethoven’s piano sonatas.
http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Chandos/CHAN10720%25283%2529
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My rather good view of the proceedings at this morning’s talk and preliminary round of the Wigmore Hall London International String Quartet Competition.
cover photo taken on the Wigmore Hall’s stage at least a year ago…
This morning I got to hear the Nightingale String Quartet play Haydn Op. 2 in D minor and contemporary Australian composer Brett Dean‘s Eclipse, a very interesting (in a good way) modern piece that is effectively a political commentary on the desperate plight of the so called ‘boat people’ and the ‘Tampa’ incident near Australia in 2001.
Then the Piatti Quartet played Mozart C major K465 and Bartok No. 3.
A rich morning!
I’m just back from Krems, via Vienna, where I photographed the marvelous bass-baritone Robert Holl.
A few shots from the Feb shoot with the fab King’s Singers can now be seen on their IMG page:
Cover photo from session with pianist Behzod Abduraimov in February 2011
See more photos here: http://www.deccaclassics.com/artist/gallery?ART_ID=ABDBE
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