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Top International ArtistsCossington Concerts offers a platform for some of the finest musicans of our day. Many of them – the soprano Emma Kirkby, the countertenor Michael Chance and tenor Ian Partridge, the violinist Margaret Faultless, the cellist Steven Isserlis, the saxophonist Tim Garland and the trumpeter Crispian Steele-Perkins, the harpsichordist Carole Cerasi, the pianists Malcolm Bilson, Sam Haywood and Julius Drake and the members of the Chilingirian Quartet – have had long and distinguished international careers. Others, though still at the beginning of their careers, have already shown enormous promise; they include the Barbirolli String Quartet, the violinist Jack Liebeck, the Countess of Munster Recital Scheme artists - the soprano Sarah-Jane Brandon, the mezzo Katie Bray, the violinist Victoria Sayles, the cellist Victoria Simonsen and the harpist Victoria Davies - and young singers from The Classical Opera Company – the sopranos Rebecca Bottone and Martene Grimson, the mezzo Anna Grevelius, the tenor Andrew Staples and baritone Jacques Imbrailo – who performed in our 2006 festival, Mozart at the Manor, and those who took part in our 2009 Handel Festival performance of Acis and Galatea - soprano Amy Carson, mezzo Annie Gill, tenors Daniel Auchincloss and Nicholas Mulroy, and bass-baritone Matthew Brook, as well as harpsichordists Maggie Cole, Laurence Cummings, Matthew Halls and Sophie Yates, and the pianists Alexander Karpeyev, Gary Matthewman, Gwilym Simcock, and Nicholas Rimmer with his Leibniz Trio Hannover. Over the years we have had the pleasure of presenting a number of important Early Music ensembles, including Devon Baroque, The Brook Street Band, The Revolutionary Drawing Room, The Salomon String Quartet, Orpheon and London Baroque as well as jazz ensembles including The Absolution Quartet, Acoustic Triangle and The Gwilym Simcock Trio. Occasionally we also present actors too, both in combination with music, as when Timothy West read passages from Casanova’s memoirs illustrated by Sophie Yates at the harpsichord, and on their own, as with Theatre Set-Up, the company who bring us Shakespeare in the Manor Garden Theatre.
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