abril 12, 2007
REINOUD FORD - GUILHERMINA SUGGIA GIFT 2003
Reinoud Ford started to play the cello at the age of eight as a student of Marina Logie in Sussex. In 1998 he was awarded a Scholarship to the Yehudi Menuhin School, where he studied with concert cellist Louise Hopkins. Reinoud received master-classes from Bernard Greenhouse, Mstislav Rostropovich, Gary Hoffmann and Johannes Goritzki, amongst others. Reinoud is an experienced chamber musician, most recently playing at the Fairfield Halls and the Wigmore Hall.
As a soloist, Reinoud has played at the Dorking Halls and the Wigmore Hall and has held several recitals, amongst others for The Guardian. He performed Haydn’s C Major Concerto with a Sussex orchestra at the age of sixteen, and, in the summer of 2003, played the concerto by C. P. E. Bach at the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, Switzerland with the Menuhin School orchestra.
Reinoud has won the Guilhermina Suggia Gift 2003 and the Gwyneth George Prize (with Christoph Schuringa) from the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe in April 2004. He was runner-up in the Suggia competition in 2004. Reinoud continues his cello studies as a third-year student with Louise Hopkins at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
He is scheduled to play Dvorak’s Cello Concerto with the Jupiter Chamber Orchestra in November.