Chamber Ensemble of London & Peter Fisher
Biography Chamber Ensemble of London & Peter Fisher
The Chamber Ensemble of London
up to 14 string players - is directed by the violinist Peter Fisher, amongst a handful of the world's finest musicians as The Times noted following a Royal Albert Hall concert in 2005.
The Ensemble has given dozens of classical concerts at St Martin-in-the-Fields, St James’s Piccadilly and the Purcell Room. For many years it was associated with the Wavendon Festival run by Sir John Dankworth and Dame Cleo Laine, which meant it also played light music and jazz as well as the standard baroque and classical repertoire. Versatile programming, often using special arrangements and new music, has led to engagements with the London Film Museum in County Hall, the Banqueting House and the Victoria & Albert Museum. CEOL has also played for several music societies and at festivals outside London.
Peter Fisher
British violinist Peter Fisher is an artist of remarkable versatility and insight who possesses a tone quality of great beauty and lyricism.
His extensive repertoire ranges from the Baroque to Jazz and, exceptionally among his generation, he has a strong affinity with the romantic music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Equally at home in the role of soloist, chamber musician and director, Peter established the Chamber Ensemble of London in 1997, consisting of handpicked players from the leading London-based orchestras and chamber music ensembles.
Peter plays regularly with Dorothy Linell, lutenist and plucked instrument player, pianist Peter Hewitt and with the Trio Petrus piano trio consisting of the three Peters: Fisher, Hewitt and cellist Peter Adams. Peter Fisher has also had very successful partnerships with pianists Alvin Moisey, Michael Dussek and Nadia Lasserson.
More recently he has formed a duo with pianist Margaret Fingerhut which is receiving considerable acclaim, as is also his new musical partnership with harpist Gabriella Dall'Olio.
In June 2012 Peter gave a performance (recorded in one take) on cable TV of a work by his teacher, JAROSLAV VANECEK (1920-2011): 'Spanish Rhapsody' for unaccompanied violin. Op. 9. ('To the memory of Pablo de Sarasate').
