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Gemma Rosefield

Cello

  • If you ever get the opportunity to hear cellist Gemma Rosefield, seize it..!
    Hampstead & Highgate Express
  • a phenomenal talent
    Evening Standard
  • ..truly magical. She soars, she floats. she's operatic, she makes you weep.
    Stringendo Magazine, Australia
  • a mesmerising music treasure
    The Strad

  • Gemma Rosefield made her concerto debut at the age of sixteen, when she won First Prize in the European Music for Youth Competition in Oslo, Norway. Winner of the prestigious Pierre Fournier Award at Wigmore Hall in 2007, Gemma studied with David Strange at the RAM, where she gained the Vice-Principal’s Special Prize, and then with Ralph Kirshbaum at the RNCM, where she won the coveted Gold Medal.

    Gemma has performed with eminent musicians such as György Pauk, Menachem Pressler and Stephen Kovacevich, and has a deep interest in contemporary music – works have been written for her by David Matthews, Cecilia McDowall, James Francis Brown, Julian Dawes, Rhian Samuel and David Knotts.

    Gemma Rosefield has been described by The Strad on her 2003 Wigmore Hall debut as “a mesmerising musical treasure”, by the London Evening Standard in 2005 as “a phenomenal talent”, and featured in BBC Music Magazine as “one to watch” in 2007.

    She gave the highly successful Pierre Fournier Award recital in September 2008 at Wigmore Hall, and also the 2008 and 2009 Jacqueline du Pré Memorial Concerts at the same venue.

    She has recently performed Michael Ellison’s Concerto for Cello, Turkish instruments and orchestra with the BBC Symphony Orchestra on BBC Radio 3. Following a Wigmore Hall Sunday Morning Coffee Concert with Ashley Wass in April 2009, Gemma played a very well-received ten concert series in Japan, and subsequently toured Mexico, giving six concerts, one televised live, with Morgan Szymanski, her cello/guitar duo partner, and Machaca, their Latin American group. In January 2011, Gemma Rosefield joined the dynamic chamber group Ensemble 360, with whom she enjoys a residency at Music in the Round in Sheffield.

    Gemma Rosefield’s latest recording (of Stanford’s cello music, with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra) was released in Autumn 2011. She returns to work with the BBC SSO in Spring 2012, and looks forward to returns to the BBC Concert Orchestra (for a recording in Spring), and Brighton Philharmonic (to close their 12/13 season. Her upcoming concert with the BBC Symphony Chorus at Maida Vale Studios will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

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    • Stanford The Romantic Cello Concerto, Vol. 3 - The Complete Works for Cello & Orchestra
      Hyperion CDA67859

      Gemma Rosefield obviously has technique to burn and is sensitive to mood and atmosphere
      Classic FM Magazine
      Stanford’s sturdy, Brahmsian Cello Concerto and the folksong-rich Third Irish Rhapsody are the highlights here, superbly played by Gemma Rosefield
      Gramophone
      Rosefield plays Stanford’s music with a real feeling for period style, using graceful portamentos and displaying a deep lyricism […] Rosefield’s solo entry in the Cello Concerto is immediately notable for its graceful, delicate phrasing […] her tone is full but not forceful [… she] never sacrifices beauty of tone in the bravura passages, and her playing of the Irish Rhapsody no. 3 exudes tenderness
      The Strad
      The performance is refined and strongly characterised by Rosefield
      International Record Review
      cellist Gemma Rosefield plays with warm-hearted poeticism and unfussy sensibility
      The Scotsman
      Gemma Rosefield plays magnificently, addressing the technical hurdles with assurance, her sterling musicianship and beautiful tone shaping the poetic episodes with sensitivity', 'Gemma Rosefield plays marvellously, all boxes ticked
      Classicalsource.com

    • Elgar Cello Concerto
      Forest Philharmonic Orchestra / Andrew Gourlay

      The highlight of the evening was a riveting performance of Elgar's Cello Concerto from Gemma Rosefield, whose way with the solo part was intensely expressive yet never overburdened by solemnity. Her tone was beautifully consistent, combining directness with an intimately compact sense of scale. Occasionally she was overpowered by surrounding violins, though the touching re-emergence of the slow movement's theme towards the end of the finale found them supporting the solo line with a hugely impressive pianissimo. Perhaps finest of all was Rosefield's way with the introduction to that last movement; she let her sound melt into the silences that punctuate the solo part, providing a perfect example of her total command of this music.
      Andrew Morris, ClassicalSource.com

    • Wihan Quartet
      May 2009

      If you ever get the opportunity to hear cellist Gemma Rosefield, seize it…the Hampstead musician is making waves on the London and international concert circuit…Gemma brought fun and enjoyment to the piece, infecting the other string players with her enthusiasm.
      Hampstead & Highgate Express

    • Cepicky, Rosefield, Dussek Trio
      October 2009

      The members of this trio…successfully met the challenge of playing with perfect ensemble…Rosefield’s strong and beautiful tone provided perhaps the outstanding memory of the concert.
      Watford Observer

    • Beethoven and Chopin G Minor Cello Sonatas
      February 2008

      Rosefield’s performance was quite enthralling, and she was clearly immersed in the music, playing with her eyes shut almost throughout, she transmitted this love of the music to the audience.
      Cherwell

    • PLG Young Artist with Nicola Eimer
      January 2008

      Rosefield’s dark mahogany tone brought out all the eloquence of some skilful traditional writing (Prospero’s Isle – James Francis Brown)…Their performance of the Shostakovich Cello Sonata, already fine, promises greatness.
      The Guardian

    • Saint-Saens Cello Concerto No. 1
      Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra / Barry Wordsworth

      Helping to make it a particularly memorable concert was young cellist Gemma Rosefield on her first appearance with the BPO. She took on Saint-Saens' passionate Cello Concerto No 1 with great gusto…Rosefield's excellent rendition is sure to give her a special place in the affections of Dome aficionados and it was easy to see why she has been invited to give this year's Jacqueline du Pre Memorial concert at the Wigmore Hall in March.
      Littlehampton Gazette

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