FrenchâEnglish cellist Vladimir Waltham was born in 1989 into a family of musicians. Soon showing outstanding musical talent, he joined the Toulouse Conservatoire at the age of 6, where he studied Cello in the class of Lluís Claret, and Piano with Thierry Huillet. After a brief hiatus in the Conservatoire of Pau, from where he graduated with the highest possible honours in both Cello and Chamber Music, he joined the Cello class of Pierre Doumenge at the Yehudi Menuhin School in Britain. He then went on to study with Mr. Doumenge at London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he also studied baroque cello with Alison McGillivray and Viols with Liam Byrne, and frequently appeared as solo, principal or continuo cellist with the school’s various orchestras, before graduating with First Class Honours in 2011.
A very keen and versatile musician, Vladimir divides his time between solo, chamber, orchestral and teaching work on both modern and baroque Cello. He has appeared as a concerto soloist in England and France, is a founding member of the Lakeside Trio, which has earned high praise for its “slow-burning, gripping” performances and is making its debut at the Wigmore Hall on 12 March 2012; he is also a founding member of the Musicians of London Wall, one of Britain’s early music groups to watch out for, which has appeared with much success in two editions of the Brighton Early Music Festival, as well as concerts throughout England.
As an orchestral musician Vladimir has appeared in several ensembles, including the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra under conductors such as Valeriy Gergiev, Sir Colin Davis, Iván Fischer, Bernard Labadie, Antonio Pappano, Mstislav Rostropovich, Richard Egarr...
His still short career has taken him to halls all over the world, including all of London’s major halls (Wigmore, Barbican, Royal Festival, Queen Elizabeth, Cadogan halls, King’s Place, Purcell Room, St Martin-in-the-Fields, St John’s Smith Square, St James’ Piccadilly...), but also Amsterdam’s Musiekgebouw aan t’Ij, Tokyo’s Sumida Triphony Hall, Vienna’s Schönberg Center, and many more, where he has shared the platform with Philippe Graffin, Daniel Rowland, Pavlo Beznosiuk, Karine Georgian, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Alexander Baillie...
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