julho 04, 2007
JOHN MYERSCOUGH- 2002 LONDON SUGGIA AWARD
JOHN MYERSCOUGH was born in 1982 and began the cello at the age of 6 with Wendy Max and subsequently studied with Margaret Moncrieff, Steven Doane and David Waterman. He has also studied with the late William Pleeth, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Valentin Erben and is now a postgraduate student of Louise Hopkins at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
As a soloist John has performed concertos at the RCM Junior Department (where he won all the soloist prizes) and with the London Soloists Chamber Orchestra in the Purcell Room and St John's, Smith Square. He has also given many concerts in Cambridge including a Beethoven Sonata cycle at Kettle's Yard. His postgraduate studies have been supported by the MBF who have awarded him a prestigious Ian Fleming Charitable Trust award and a Myra Hess Trust award. John graduated from Selwyn College, Cambridge in 2003 where he read music.
John is the cellist of the Doric String Quartet which regularly gives concerts across Britain and Europe. They have appeared to wide critical acclaim in most of the major British chamber music venues including five times at the Wigmore Hall and four times at the Purcell Room. They are the quartet in residence at the Wiltshire Music Centre in Bradford upon Avon and this season will perform in, among others, Bristol, Oxford, Paris and twice at the Wigmore Hall. They have studied with members of the Alban Berg, Artemis, Amadeus, Belcea, Hagen and LaSalle quartets.