Aisha Orazbayeva and Joseph Houston
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Aisha Orazbayeva & Joseph Houston in performance at Cafe Otto in Dalston, East London. Aisha Orazbayeva is a violinist from Kazakhstan. She also writes and has had plays broadcast on the radio. She gained notice for her performance of Salvatore Sciarrino caprices.Joseph Houston is a pianist based in London and Berlin. His wide-ranging curiosity has led to activity in a variety of fields, particularly in Contemporary and Experimental Music. He has performed all over Europe and in China, and his playing has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, and Albanian national television. Collaboration with composers on new projects makes up a large portion of Joseph's work, and he has worked with, among others, Christian Wolff, Rolf Hind, Thomas Simaku, Klaus Lang, Christian Mason, Colin Matthews, Brian Ferneryhough, Charlotte Bray, Simon Holt, and William Brooks.
In 2013 Joseph was a selected artist on the Making Music Philip and Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists, leading to performances all over the UK. In the same year he was also winner of the 2nd Prize in the British Contemporary Piano Competition, a Help Musicians UK 'Emerging Excellence' award, and chosen as a Park Lane Group Young Artist, through which he gave his debut recitals at the South Bank Centre's Purcell Room and Wigmore Hall.
Joseph studied at the University of York and the Royal College of Music where his teachers included Ian Jones, Joan Dixon, Ashley Wass, and Andrew Ball.
Upcoming projects include a recording of solo piano music by Thomas Simaku to be released on Naxos, and a US tour with violinist Aisha Orazbayeva.
Aisha Orazbayeva is a violinist from Kazakhstan. She also writes and has had plays broadcast on the radio. She gained notice for her performance of Salvatore Sciarrino caprices.
Orazbayeva collaborated with computer music composer Peter Zinovieff on a violin concerto Our Too, premiered at London Contemporary Music Festival in 2014.
In 2014 composer Bryn Harrison wrote Receiving the Approaching Memory, a 40-minute work for violin and piano, for Orazbayeva and pianist Mark Knoop.[4] An album version was released in 2015.
Joseph Houston is a British pianist based in Berlin. His performance practice encompasses a range of music, including contemporary and experimental music; late 19th- and early 20th-century piano music; music for synthesizers; and his own compositions.
In 2013 Joseph was a selected artist on the Making Music Philip and Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists, leading to performances all over the UK. In the same year he was also winner of the 2nd Prize in the British Contemporary Piano Competition, a Help Musicians UK 'Emerging Excellence' award, and chosen as a Park Lane Group Young Artist, through which he gave his debut recitals at the South Bank Centre's Purcell Room and Wigmore Hall.
Joseph studied at the University of York and the Royal College of Music where his teachers included Ian Jones, Joan Dixon, Ashley Wass, and Andrew Ball.
Upcoming projects include a recording of solo piano music by Thomas Simaku to be released on Naxos, and a US tour with violinist Aisha Orazbayeva.
Aisha Orazbayeva is a violinist from Kazakhstan. She also writes and has had plays broadcast on the radio. She gained notice for her performance of Salvatore Sciarrino caprices.
Orazbayeva collaborated with computer music composer Peter Zinovieff on a violin concerto Our Too, premiered at London Contemporary Music Festival in 2014.
In 2014 composer Bryn Harrison wrote Receiving the Approaching Memory, a 40-minute work for violin and piano, for Orazbayeva and pianist Mark Knoop.[4] An album version was released in 2015.
Joseph Houston is a British pianist based in Berlin. His performance practice encompasses a range of music, including contemporary and experimental music; late 19th- and early 20th-century piano music; music for synthesizers; and his own compositions.
