IMNUSIC Teen star at cathedral
She’s one
to watch
BRILLIANT teenage violinist Chloe Hanslip is set to
wow audiences on Saturday, October 26, when she
joins the Guildford Philharmonic Choir in a concert
at Guildford Cathedral.
- The Guildford-born 15-year-old will play pieces
including work by Dvorak.
Godalming record shop proprietor Tom Briggs of
Record Corner in Pound Lane is a real enthusiast.
“She is brilliant,” he said.
Chloe, who now hails from Camberley, has also
just launched her second CD and Tom has plans
afoot to get the young violinist into his store in
December to sign copies.
“She is keen to come, we just have to set a date,”
he said this week.
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In the summer she used her prodigious talent to
wow the crowds in Scandinavia.
London Symphony Orchestra, when she was only
13, was also told during her stay in Norway that the
recording had received a prestigious award from
Germany for best new classical release 2002.
As the youngest person to secure a contract with
Warner Classic International, she was among a host
of internationally known artists visiting the
Norwegian music academy Skodje Fjord Cadenza.
But the young violinist, who has performed at
Carnegie Hall in' New York and appeared in a
Hollywood film alongside Ralph Fiennes and Liv
Tyler, is unfazed by her success saying her career
high point so far has been the recording of her first
But despite being the same age as her fellow musicians Chloe was invited to take part as a soloist, not
a student.
Those who take part are hand picked from all over
the world and each day they receive tuition from top
classical musicians. But the highlight of the course is
when they are put together to become The Fjord
Cadenza Symphony Orchestra, under their world
famous conductor Arild Remmereit.
Chloe, who made her first record, with The
Ch.
She said: “I think that one such point would be
making the CD with the London Symphony
Orchestra.
“To be able to play with 72 musicians is very exciting indeed. It was also a great experience participat-
ing in the New Year’s Eve concert at the Barbican
Concert Hall with the London Symphony Orchestra
when I was 14.”
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Y¢ee Guildford Philharmonic Choir