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Myrios Quartet was founded at the Royal Northern College of Music under the guidance of Dr. Christopher Rowland. The quartet, all third year undergraduate students, won second prize at the National Youth String Quartet Competition 2005 in London. They have performed at many UK festivals and music societies, including the RNCM 2006 ChamberFest, "Shostakovich and his Comrades" and as part of the London String Quartet Week in the Goldsmith'sHall. They have also been featured in recitals at the Swaledale Festival and at St Bride's Church in London. The Quartet has participated in masterclasses for Mark Messenger, David Dolan and members of the Endellion and Oslo Quartets.
Sadie Fields performs frequently in Canada and the UK. Sadie has appeared as guest soloist with the Kitchener-Waterloo, Windsor, and National Festival Symphony Orchestras, and also with the Toronto String Orchestra and Canadian Chamber Academy Orchestra. Concerto performances in the UK include the Beethoven Violin Concerto, Vaughan Williams "The Lark Ascending" and the Bruch Violin Concerto. She has performed for the Prime Minister of Canada and for Pope John Paul II, and has been a winner of the Edward Johnson Music Competition and the Canadian Music Competition. Sadie has had lessons and masterclasses with many of the most distinguished teachers in Europe and North America, including Ivry Gitlis, Aaron Rosand, Victor Danchenko, Almita Vamos, Zvi Zeitlin, and Mauricio Fuks. She is studying with Prof. Wen Zhou Li.
Emanuela Buta came to the UK from Romania in 2001 to study at Wells Cathedral School in Somerset and is studying with Richard Ireland. Between 1999 and 2001, she won the National Romanian Solo competition and, since she was seven, has been invited every year to make solo appearances with the Arad Philharmonic Orchestra in Romania. Emanuela has toured Norway, Poland, Hungary, Germany, France and Italy both as soloist and chamber musician. In April 2005 she won the National Youth String Quartet Competition held in London as member of the Azzura String Quartet. Between 1997 and 2004 she attended Pro Corda, The National School for Young Chamber Music Players, where she had the privilege to work with Sir Colin Davis, Dr. Ioan Davies, Dr Christopher Rowland, Mark Messenger, Howard Davis, Simon Rowland-Jones, members of the Delme Quartet, Israel Piano Trio, Leopold String Trio, Endellion String Quartet and Wihan String Quartet of Prague. With her Pro Corda piano quartet, she performed at the RNCM Schumann and BrahmsFest in 2005.
Michael Gurevich from Hilversum, the Netherlands, is studying the violin with Jan Repko. Having begun violin lessons at me age of 5, Michael first received lessons from Mr. Repko at the Amsterdam Conservatoire in the Young Talent class. At the RNCM, Michael has won the Nonnan George Violin Scholarship. He is the former concertmaster of the Netherlands Youth String Orchestra, with which he has also performed as a soloist. Other solo performances have been with The Hague Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Atheneum Chamber Orchestra. As a member of the Rhodes Trio, Michael has won the RNCM's Terence Weil and Hirsch prizes. Michael has performed in masterclasses for artists such as Ivry Gitlis, Lewis Kaplan and Yossi Zivoni and in chamber music masterclasses for lan Brown, Alexander Melnikov, Andre Emelianoff and many others.
David Edmonds, from Sussex, began cello lessons at the age of nine. He studied at Chetham's School of Music with David Smith of the Albemi String Quartet. He took the role of principal cello in the Chetham's Symphony Orchestra and was awarded the senior string orchestra prize in his final year. He has participated in masterclasses with artists such as Fred Sherry, Professor David Strange, Bruno Schreker and Ralph Kirshbaum and studied chamber music with members of the Szymanowski, Chilingirian and Schidlof quartets. As a member of the Rhodes Trio, David has won the RNCM's Terence Weil and Hirsch prizes. He has also participated in numerous concerts across the north, both in chamber music and as soloist. David has been offered various scholarships from various prestigious music colleges in the UK and is currently studying with Hannah Roberts at the RNCM.
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