Lorraine McAslan
Yevgeny Sudbin

LORRAINE McASLAN violin

"spellbinding, she persuades you to listen by dint of her utter sincerity and her total absence of outward display" The Daily Telegraph

"vibrant passion allied to consummate musicianship" The Gramophone

             Lorraine McAslan, one of the leaders of the London Octave, initially trained in London with the late David Martin. She moved to New York at the age of seventeen on the recommendation of Isaac Stern to study with Dorothy Delay at the Juilliard School. Her European debut with the Bern Symphony Orchestra was broadcast live on Swiss Radio. Her television appearances include performances with the BBC Welsh and Scottish Symphony Orchestras and recitals on BBC2. Last season, she gave the premiere broadcast of Lionel Sainsbury's violin Concerto with the BBC Concert Orchestra.
To date Lorraine has eleven recordings to her name. "The Strad" magazine has   called her "One of the most distinguished British violinists of her generation." Her recording career began with sonatas by Elgar and Walton for A.S.V. Then came a highly praised Britten Concerto with the English Chamber Orchestra and Steuart Bedford, several sonata discs and recently Holst's Song of the Night with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Her interpretation of Samuel Coleridge Taylor's concerto also with the L.P.O. has recently been released as was a collection of Spanish and South American music with the guitarist  James Woodrow. Last summer she recorded "Spring" from Vivaldi's Four Seasons and the Vivaldi concerto for two violins and cello for London Octave's CD "Better Baroque".
            Recent concerts have included  performances with the London Mozart Players, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and a memorable performance of the Elgar Violin Concerto on the South Bank.


YEVGENY SUDBIN piano 

"absolutely delicious. A great recital"  Adrian Jack in The Independent  on Yevgeny Sudbin's Wigmore Hall debut

              Yevgeny Sudbin, who has given many concerts with the  London Octave was born in St Petersburg in 1980. When he was 7, he became a pupil at the St Petersburg Conservatory and won the first prize at the Aussig Piano Competition only two years later. In 1990, his family emigrated to Germany where he became a pupil of Galina Iwanzonwa at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. In 1992, 1993 and 1995, Yevgeny won various prizes in including the first prize at the Federal Competition Jugend Musiziert in Osnabrück and a first prize in the Concertino Praga Piano Competition. In September 1997 became a student at the Purcell School. A scholarship from the Heineman Foundation made it possible for him to take part in the Verbier Festival and Academy in Switzerland in July 1998. Whilst there he worked with Claude Frank and Stephen Kovacevich and won the Bourse Reuters for "Jeunes Artistes". He now studies with Christopher Elton at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In 2000 he was a finalist in the International Vendome Prize in Paris. He also participated in the Gstaad Winter Festival. Most recently he won first prize in the Jaques Samuels Piano Competition and was awarded the Orpheum Public Award for the best interpretation of a Mozart Concerto, after a performance with the London Mozart Players in the Tonhalle in Zurich. He recently recorded the Bach D minor piano concerto with the London Octave and has subsequently signed a contract to record 3 CDs with the prestigious Swedish recording company BIS.

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