Ave Maria, or Ellens Gesang III D.839, Franz Schubert (1825)

FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828)
Ave Maria, or Ellens Gesang III D.839 (1825)
Philippa Mo, solo violin
Accompanied by R Wenzell, marimba
Recorded July 2017 at the Cidade das Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Re-mastered by Alex Barnes, Apple and Biscuit, London
Photography: Guy Carpenter
“…faultless technique and unfailing insight.” Gramophone Magazine
​"International sensation.." The Weekender
"The ingenuity of the writing was quite dazzling: so was the playing - the expertise of Mo’s near- instantaneous transitions from one style to another was often startling and always impressive” Classical Source
Philippa studied at the Royal Academy of Music, London and at the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing. Philippa now performs extensively as a chamber musician. She has given performances and live broadcasts worldwide, including her acclaimed debut at the Wigmore Hall, recitals at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, St John’s, Smith Square, London, the Deutsches Museum, Munich, the Natural History Museum, Ulaan Bataar, when she was invited as the only British musician to participate as soloist in the International Music Festival of Contemporary Music, Mongolia in 2002. Philippa has also been invited to play at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, the Barbara Hepworth Museum and The Tate St Ives and more further afield at the Ankara International Music Festival, the Lincoln Center, New York, and Cidade das Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Recent solo tours have taken her to Australia and Brazil and she returns regularly to China.
A champion of contemporary music, Philippa has given workshops on British music at the Central Conservatory, Beijing and at Bilkent and Hacettep Universities in Ankara, Turkey. She coached students of the Kurmangazy National Conservatory of Kazakhstan in Almaty 2007-09. She has worked closely with many leading British composers including Gabriel Prokofiev, Robert Fokkens, Cecilia McDowall, Leo Geyer, Deborah Pritchard, David Matthews, John McCabe, Jim Aitchison, Wendy Hiscocks and Errollyn Wallen and has given premieres of their solo and violin duo works.
Philippa has established an ongoing relationship with the Tate St Ives and recorded a solo work written for her by Leo Geyer on the anniversary of Barbara Hepworth to be used as a sound installation at the Tate. She also premiered a new solo work by composer Jim Aitchison alongside his monumental solo work Shibboleth at CAST, Helston and at the Porthmeor studios, St Ives. Concerto appearances include a world premiere in Truro Cathedral as part of the innovative Online Orchestra Project with the Philharmonia Orchestra. and Piazzolla's Four Seasons of Buenos Aires in The Venue, Leeds with conductor Natalia Luis Bassa as well as John McCabe's Les Martinets Noirs at the Lidköping Festival, Sweden. Philippa will play a brand new work by Colin Riley in Ely Cathedral in 2021.
Philippa has performed at the gallery Sladers Yard in Dorset for a number of years and gave a solo series, Partita Fantasia Caprice in which she explored the complete solo works of JS Bach and the complete Telemann Fantasias in the context of early Baroque solo violin repertoire right through to newly written contemporary works.
In 2018, Philippa founded the series Philippa Mo @ Shortwave Nights and gave ten solo and duo concerts with international guest artists on viola, cello, guitar, harp and counter tenor to name but a few. Throughout 2019 and early 2020 she continued the series as Philippa Mo @ The Curtain at the exclusive hotel and private members club, The Curtain in Shoreditch with Olivia Jageurs, harp, William Towers, countertenor, Jakob Bangsø, guitar and Jakob Kullberg, cello.
Philippa has released critically acclaimed recordings for the NMC, Dutton and Nimbus labels.
She was appointed Senior Lecture in Violin at Leeds College of Music and awarded Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) in 2015.
Philippa is also the founding member of the Retorica violin duo:
“The two violins are wielded with enough delicacy and charm to immerse the listener into some really penetrating expression on the vivid scale of a full symphony orchestra” - British Music Society News
“...faultless technique and unfailing insight.” Gramophone Magazine
Retorica performed worldwide to great acclaim. Highlights include recitals in the most prestigious halls in China, the Beijing NCPA and Shanghai SHAOC, Sweden, Italy, Ukraine, Japan, Germany and the Channel Islands.
Retorica’s debut CD English Violin Duos was chosen as Gramophone Magazine's 'Editor's choice' and the 'must hear' CD for chamber music: "superbly responsive playing.... faultless technique and unfailing insight" . Retorica have also received critical acclaim for their Dutton recording of John McCabe's Double violin concerto and most recently for their recording of Paul Patterson's Allusions with the English Symphony Orchestra.
Philippa plays a violin by Julius Cesare Gigli from 1786.

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