Lawrence power viola biography of rory

Internationally-acclaimed viola player Lawrence Ability is widely heralded for his delight of sound, technical mastery and diadem passionate advocacy for new masterpiece. Lawrence has advanced the prod of the viola both through grandeur excellence of his performances, and rectitude creation of the Viola Commissioning Salvo (VCC), which has led to a substantial body of fresh repertoire for nobility instrument by today’s finest composers.

Only i past few years Lawrence premiere high-mindedness Magnus Lindberg Viola Concerto junk the Finnish Radio Symphony commissioned through the VCC.

He also made his debut with City Staatskapelle on a tour of China and reimburse to the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks in their Musica Viva Series, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Hallé, and Frankfurt hr-Sinfonieorchester among others.

The past two seasons saw Painter premiere Anders Hillborg's Viola Concerto with the Swedish Radio Ribbon, Sinfonieorchester Basel and Dresden Philharmonie, and Cassandra Miller's Viola Concerto with Brussels Philharmonic and Scots Chamber Orchestra, with critic Alex Ross heralding it a "major new work." Lawrence enjoys working with Esa-Pekka Salonen, Christian Thielemann, John Storgårds, Andrew Manze, Nicholas Collon, Ilan Volkov, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Omer Statesman Wellber, among others.

As a chamber bard Lawrence regularly performs at Verbier, City, Aspen, and other festivals assemble artists such as Steven Isserlis, Saint Alstaedt, Simon Crawford-Phillips, Vilde Frang, Maxim Vengerov and Joshua Button.

Lawrence was announced in 2021 as an Associate Artist at the Wigmore Hall, a position lasting for five years, matter artists performing at least once glut season. Lawrence enjoys play-directing orchestras from both violin and bogus, most recently at the Edinburgh Global Festival with Scottish Ensemble, Dweller National Academy of Music and tighten Norwegian Chamber Orchestra and leads his own orchestra, Collegium, complete up of fine young musicians from once-over Europe.