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Pauline Lowbury
Leader
Pauline, founder member and leader of Britten Sinfonia, studied at the Royal College of Music and the Juilliard School, New York. Since her acclaimed 1982 Wigmore Hall debut she has combined a busy career as soloist, chamber musician and leader, appearing at major venues throughout the UK and abroad, on BBC TV and Radio 3.
In addition to her frequent solo appearances with Britten Sinfonia she has performed as concerto soloist with the English Chamber Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Ulster Orchestra and the Academy of London. After a performance of the Beethoven Concerto, The Times described her as ‘a solo violinist with exceptionally cultivated purity of sound and a technique that made light of the Violin Concerto’s difficulties’.
Pauline has premiered sonatas written for her by Robert Simpson and Matthew Taylor, and recently gave the first public performance of the Violin Sontata by Gareth Walters. A committed chamber musician, she is a founder member of the Lowbury Piano Trio, the English Horn Trio and Britten Sinfonia Soloists. Her recordings of Simpson’s Sonata and other chamber works have been highly acclaimed in Gramophone and Classic CD; and The Lark Ascending, with Britten Sinfonia is frequently heard on Classic FM. Future recording plans include violin works by Carey Blyton.
Her solo engagements with Britten Sinfonia have included: the UK premiere of the Double Concerto for Violin and Guitar by Aaron Jay Kernis, broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 as part of Sounding the Century; performances of the Beethoven Concerto and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ Strathclyde Concerto No. 5; and she recently appeared as soloist/director in Athens and Thessaloniki.
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