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Concert supported by Countess of Munster Musical Trust
On Friday 4 April 2008 Thomas Gould and John Reid will play for Matlock Music. See programme
 Born in London in 1983, Thomas Gould began violin lessons at the age of three with Sheila Nelson. At eighteen Thomas entered the Royal Academy of Music on a scholarship where his principal teacher was György Pauk. Since graduating in 2006 Thomas has established a busy and varied career as soloist, recitalist and orchestral leader.
In May 2006 Thomas was selected for representation by Young Concert Artists Trust (YCAT) leading to debut recitals in the Purcell Room, Bridgewater Hall, Wigmore Hall and St George’s Bristol. As a Martin Musical Scholarship Fund award-winner Thomas has appeared in recital in the Purcell Room and Queen Elizabeth Hall. Through the Countess of Munster Recital Scheme and Making Music Young Concert Artist Programme Thomas performs regularly for music clubs and societies across the UK with pianist John Reid.
Thomas is in equal demand as concerto soloist, having performed with numerous orchestras in England and abroad. Notable collaborations include the Gävle Symfoniorkester and Robin Ticciati, Kammerphilharmonie Graz and Achim Holub, Orchestra of the Swan and David Curtis, and the London Soloists Chamber Orchestra. In 2007 he will give the premiere of a concerto written for six-string electric violin by American composer Nico Muhly with Aurora Orchestra.
Thomas is co-leader of Britten Sinfonia and leader of Aurora Orchestra. He also freelances with several London orchestras and plays regularly on soundtracks for film and television. In addition Thomas has recorded works by Herbert Howells and Joseph Jongen for the Meridian and Hyperion labels. Thomas is a regular participant in the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove and the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme in Aldeburgh.
Thomas plays a violin made by Gennaro Gagliano in 1754.
John Reid read music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he gained an MPhil in musicology before taking up a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music with Michael Dussek. He has also taken lessons in song interpretation with Malcolm Martineau and, privately in Amsterdam, with Rudolf Jansen. His many awards include the 2003 Kathleen Ferrier and Maggie Teyte accompaniment prizes, the 2003 Birmingham Accompanist of the Year (joint first prize) and the 2004 Gerald Moore Award. In recognition of his achievements, he was awarded the Queen's Commendation for excellence by the Academy on graduating in 2004, as well as the Shinn Junior Fellowship for the academic year 2004-5.
Over the last few years, John has made a number of significant recital debuts: at Wigmore Hall in May 2004 (with soprano Lucy Crowe); at the Purcell Room (as a 2004 Park Lane Group Young Artist); in Germany, at the Mecklenburg Festival (with flautist Adam Walker) and in Switzerland, Italy and the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam (with trumpeter Alison Balsom). Together with his regular duo partner, violinist Thomas Gould, he has given recitals at the Queen Elizabeth Hall (under the auspices of the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund), Wigmore Hall, Bridgewater Hall, St. George's Brandon Hill, Purcell Room, at the Buxton and Chester Festivals and across the UK. He has partnered distinguished singers Joan Rodgers and Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, flautist William Bennett, cellist Alexander Baillie and violinist Jennifer Pike and he has appeared at the Spitalfields, Norfolk and Norwich, Salisbury, Winchester, Gower, Stratford-on-Avon and Oxford Lieder Festivals, St. John's Smith Square, Linbury Studio (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden), the Adrian Boult Hall in Birmingham and Colston Hall in Bristol. He is a regular member of the Aurora Orchestra, and he joined the contemporary music ensemble Radius for its debut at Wigmore Hall in April 2007.
John is an alumnus of the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme and was a founder member of the Royal Academy of Music Song Circle, with whom he performed the complete Mörike Lieder of Wolf, and whose debut disc ('Songs of Spring') was released to critical acclaim. Forthcoming releases for 2007 include first recordings of music by Charles Camilleri (on Divine Art) and Rhian Samuel (on Deux-Elles).
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