Media release 25 March 2011

Award-winning Cellist Natalie Clein takes center stage at The National Concert Hall for Recital

One of the UK’s favourite cellists, Natalie Clein will perform at The National Concert Hall on Wednesday 13 April 2011 as part of The International Concert Series 2010/2011.

Presenting a programme of favourites from Liszt’s Elegie’s No. 1 and 2 to Schubert’s Sonata in A minor this award-winning cellist will be joined by pianist for her International Concert Series 2010/2011 recital.

A cellist of exceptional talent, Natalie Clein enjoys an established International career. She performs regularly with top orchestras, gives recitals in the world’s most prestigious concert halls and is an avid chamber music performer.

She has earned a number of distinguished prizes including the Classical Brit Award for Young British Performer of 2005, the Ingrid zu Solms Cultur Preis at the 2003 Kronberg Academie, BBC Young Musician of the Year in 1994 and the first ever British winner of the Eurovision Competition for Young Musicians in the same year.

Recent and future appearances include the Hallé, Ulster, Royal Philharmonic and Royal Scottish National orchestras, the Philharmonia, Scottish Ensemble, Sinfonia Viva, London Contemporary Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony, Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires and the European Union Chamber Orchestra. Recital highlights include LSO St. Luke’s, Kings Place, Birmingham Town Hall, and Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

As a chamber musician Natalie takes part in many of the world’s great international chamber festivals, where she has collaborated with distinguished soloists such as pianist Martha Argerich, singer Ian Bostridge, pianist Imogen Cooper, cellist Steven Isserlis, and many more. In 2008 she formed a piano quartet with Alexander Sitkovetsky, Krzysztof Chorzelski and Polina Leshenko. The following year she collaborated with dancer Carlos Acosta at the Manchester International Festival and Sadler’s Wells London, performing solo Bach in ‘A Suite of Dances’ by Jerome Robbins.

Natalie’s recent all-Kodaly CD with Julius Drake on the Hyperion label has received rave reviews in National press. She has also recorded 3 discs for EMI Classics; the Elgar Cello Concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and , and two recital discs with pianist - The Romantic Cello and Brahms & Schubert.

Natalie Clein plays on the “Simpson” Guadagnini cello (1777).

PROGRAMME Liszt Elegie No.1 Liszt Elegie No.2 Kodaly Sonata for Solo Cello Op.8 Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata in A minor D821 Beethoven: Cello Sonata No.3 in A major Op.69

Please note the revised programme order from what was previously advertised.

Tickets: €20, €30, €35, €40 (Choir Balcony €15) National Concert Hall Box Office Tel: 01 417 00 00 or www.nch.ie (no booking fees)

ENDS For further information please contact Sinead Doyle, Marketing & PR Manager, Tel: 01 417 00 57 or 087 1775334