Russell Porter with Barry Douglas, Ciaran Scullion (Arts Council), and Cllr Andrew Muir. Ⓒ Spectator Newspapers
The Clandeboye Festival was a great success for me, I benefited from a week of expert tuition from Michel Lethiec and I also really enjoyed playing in the 'Young Musicians of the Future' concert as part of the festival. I performed Heitor Villa-Lobos' Ciranda das Sete Notas with up-and-coming Northern Irish pianist, Michael McHale.
The concert was reviewed in the Belfast Telegraph by Andrew Johnston: 'Musical Youth Enrapture Audience'. Andrew was very complementary of all the musicians, describing my playing as "characterful".
The concert was reviewed in the Belfast Telegraph by Andrew Johnston: 'Musical Youth Enrapture Audience'. Andrew was very complementary of all the musicians, describing my playing as "characterful".
After the Clandeboye Festival things kept improving as I was asked to join Camerata Ireland on their tour to Mexico! Barry Douglas would be performing all of Beethoven's Piano Concertos including the one for violin arranged for piano in concerts in Mexico City, Léon, and in Guanajuato as part of the 'Festival Internacional Cervantino'. Irish President Michael D. Higgins, joint patron of the orchestra, was also in attendance at our concert in Mexico City.
Myself and Leonie Bluett are mentioned in this article in the Journal of Music as being two of the young musicians from the Clandeboye Festival taking part in the tour: http://journalofmusic.com/listing/20-10-13/camerata-ireland-mexico.
While in Mexico we played to thousands of people and were very warmly received, we even made it onto Time Out México:
Myself and Leonie Bluett are mentioned in this article in the Journal of Music as being two of the young musicians from the Clandeboye Festival taking part in the tour: http://journalofmusic.com/listing/20-10-13/camerata-ireland-mexico.
While in Mexico we played to thousands of people and were very warmly received, we even made it onto Time Out México:
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I had a really great time touring and playing with Camerata Ireland and I hope it will be the first of many! I'll leave you with some of the photos I took while in Mexico:
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