Tasmin Little

photo by Melanie Winning


... read the announcement on the Classic FM website
... see announcement in today's "The Times"

Tasmin's Schedule until December and two Proms

Tasmin's Schedule until December 2012 is now on the Concerts Page

as well as the two Proms, Prom 20 (The Wallace & Gromit Prom: Musical Marvels!)

and Prom 54, (Davies, Delius & Shostakovich) Tasmin will play in.

Booking for the PROMS opens May 12th.

A BBC Promo Film
Prom 20


Tasmin talks after 5min 20sec


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13/11/2011 - Tasmin's NEW VIDEO PAGE

We have now gathered all major Tasmin YouTube videos together in

a new Videos page on Tasmin's website.



Release Date: 26/9/2011

Released: September 26th 2011 - ORDER from below mentioned LINKS

Tasmin is very excited to announce the release of her second disc as an exclusive

Chandos artist – the Delius Violin concerto and Delius Double concerto

(with cellist Paul Watkins) will be released on 26th September.

Read the CHANDOS PRESS RELEASE by clicking the CHANDOS logo.

Pre-order the CD from the following retailers:

REVIEWS IN SO FAR:

Just Out - December issue

A really excellent review by Andrew Achenbach has just come out in GRAMOPHONE
magazine.

Andrew's concluding sentence:
"No self-respecting Delian can afford to be without this indispensable issue."

Read it here. and Classicalresource.com Review is here.

Tom Service Guardian Blog (Monday 5th December 2011)

Delius's string concertos may be unfashionable – but I love them.
Many may sneer, but Delius's concertos for violin, cello, and his double concerto for both, show that musical fashion has got it wrong. This is great music.

Lovely blog entry, read it here:

Two excellent review notices in The Sunday Times and The Sunday Telegraph are here.

International Record Review, October 2011, features a great review of this CD release.

Read the review here.

SA-CD.net has an enthusiastic review by Adrian Cue which you could read here.

Financial Times had a short review in its Arts Section. Read it here.

Classic FM Magazine "A dream team for Delius" - 5 Star review. Read it here.

The Daily Mail of November 11th carried a short review (5 Star) by Tully Potter.
Read it here.

Classic FM - Mark Forrest Christmas Guide - Recommendation - Read it here.

In the Violin Concerto and the Double Concerto, Tasmin Little is every bit as persuasively expressive as on her earlier recordings with Charles Mackerras. Paul Watkins provides the partnership you'd expect from such a fine chamber musician in the Double, and copes effortlessly with the problems of the original version of the Cello Concerto. Andrew Davis paces everything magisterially, always allowing enough space at moments of hushed stillness. The recording, at least in stereo, seems slightly too close-up on the soloists, relegating some fine orchestral playing to the middle distance. But that's a minor blemish on a disc that will give great pleasure to all lovers of Delius's music.
Anthony Burton
PERFORMANCE ***** RECORDING ****

Twenty years ago Tasmin Little recorded the Delius Violin and Cello Concerto with Raphael Wallfisch and the RLPO under Sir Charles Groves. Now she has recorded it again with Paul Watkins, Sir Andrew Davis and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. She couples it with the Violin Concerto and Watkins completes this Chardos record with the Cello Concerto, also on the Liverpool disc This is a well programmed release, gaining from an up to date sound, and while this is all the first rate Delius, well realised, it also shows that the Violin Concerto should be a regular part of the repertoire.

Four New EMI CDs - Released YESTERDAY, October 3rd

This October EMI are re-releasing 4 CDs with Tasmin , available from Amazon. (click CD thumbnails)

Ravel Poulenc Debussy Delius	Brahms, Sibelius Arvo Pärt	Bruch Dvorak Lalo	Violin Showpieces

Please click the CD covers for further information and to pre-order

CHANDOS CD release for November 2011

Tasmin is one of the artists appearing in this forthcoming release by CHANDOS

Beethoven: Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra 4-CD box set

*Tasmin Little (violin), *Tim Hugh (cello) Howard Shelley (piano and conductor) Opera North Orchestra and +Chorus

Order from Amazon here.

CLASSIC fm - CD release of the month! December 2011

November 5th 2011
Article by James Steen
in Mail Online

My haven: Chef Raymond Blanc, 61, relaxes in the Japanese tea house at his restaurant, Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons

6. LOVE SONG

Chef Raymond Blanc talks of Tasmin's visit to his establishment Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons some years ago when she appeared at his annual music festival.

Photo l-r:
Raymond, Tasmin, Jilly Little and Martin Roscoe at Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons

(click logo to read the whole article)

The Guardian,
26th October 2011

To read the whole article,
click logo

The artists' artist: violinists
Seven violinists nominate their favourite living artist in their field

In an article in the Guardian on Wednesday 26th October 2011
Tasmin wrote about her idol, Ida Haendel - you may want to read this here:

Recently added to YouTube - Prokofiev - 1st Violin Conceto by the Radio Kamer Filharmonie (Concert from December 2010) Michael Schønwandt, dirigent Tasmin Little, viool Prokovjev (Eerste vioolconcert in D, op. 19) and Schubert - Zesde symfonie, D.589

A recently released YouTube clip (2 min) of the Elgar Concerto - Prom 24 - Courtesy of BBC TV


Classic Brits Award 2011

Tasmin's Thank You speech at the Classic Brits Award ceremony 2011

Here is a 5 min video clip of Tasmin receiving the Critics Award this year at the Classic Brits Awards, introduced by cellist Julian Lloyd Webber. The video was provided courtesy Mike Hatch. Thank you.

Enjoy! (please click the Classic Brits thumbnail) or go to Video Page.


Tasmin's One hour recital in Auckland Friday 10th June

A Naked Violin project recital

Download a FREE CD (click pic)

Radio New Zealand has just added the NAKED VIOLIN recital Tasmin gave in Auckland on Friday, June 10th to YouTube.

Here is the Download Page for a FREE CD
of Naked Violin Project music by J.S. Bach, Paul Patterson and Eugène Ysaÿe.

Tasmin has received the CRITICS' AWARD at the 2011 CLASSIC BRIT AWARDS

We are delighted to report that Tasmin has received the Critics' Award for her recording of Elgar's Violin Concerto with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Sir Andrew Davis.

The Critics’ Award was chosen by a panel of critics from the national media and recognises special achievements or performances over the past twelve months. The 2011 nominees were Antonio Pappano, who received his second nomination for ‘Rossini: Stabat Mater’, German tenor Jonas Kaufmann with ‘Verismo Arias’ and British violinist Tasmin Little for the album ‘Elgar: Violin Concerto’.

Visit the CLASSIC BRITS website to read more

To read more, please view/download Press Release PDF

A video with Tasmin is here: (click logo) (01:19)

Tasmin Little at the Classic

Classic Brits Award speech 2011

We have received some nice event i-phone photos, you might like to see. (Click thumbnails)

BBC News has a page, titled "Violinists dominate Classic Brit Awards". View it here.

A nice Photo of the three award winners, Vilde Frang, Alison Balsom, and Tasmin Little, has appeared here.


Menuhin Competition - Beijing - 2012

6 - 15 April 2012

MENUHIN COMPETITION 2012 - BEIJING, CHINA.

The world's leading violin competition for violinists under the age of 22 will take place in Beijing, China, between 6 - 15 April 2012.

The competition will be a 10-day festival of music and competitors will have a chance to collaborate with the China Philharmonic Orchestra, one of the best orchestras in China, and to perform at the impressive National Centre for the Performing Arts and Beijing Concert Hall.

The Competition is now open for applications; application deadline is the 31 October 2011. More details and Application Form are on the Menuhin Competition website.

TASMIN will be a member of the Jury.

Other members of the Jury are:
PAMELA FRANK, (USA), JOJI HATTORI (Japan), OLIVIER CHARLIER (France), DONG-SUK KANG (Korea), HU KUN (China & UK), HENNING KRAGGERUD (Norway), VERA TSU (China), MAXIM VENGEROV (Russia).









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Link to Download

From:Gramophone Magazine

2008 Classic FM Award for Audience Innovation: Tasmin Little

Tasmin writes:

It was a real thrill to receive the news that my Naked Violin download and project had been chosen to receive the Classic FM Award for Audience Innovation at the Gramophone Awards. The award ceremony, something akin to the Oscars in music circles, took place at lunchtime on Thursday 25th and my only sadness was that, due to performance commitments, I was unable to attend and receive my award in person!

Gramophone Magazine invited me to write a few words about my award to be read out during the ceremony and here is what I wrote:

I was surprised and completely delighted to hear that I have been chosen to receive the Classic FM Award for Audience Innovation for my project The Naked Violin. The response to my download, both internationally and in the UK, was overwhelming; and this, plus the South Bank Show television programme about my project, has proved to me that classical music is as vital a part of our lives today as it has ever been.

I have a few brief, but heartfelt Thank Yous:

First of all, to John West and Limo Hearn, who produced and engineered The Naked Violin.

To Horst Kolo, my brilliant and tireless webmaster and to IFDNRG who host my site.

To Shona Galletly, who did a superb job publicising the download.

And to Sinead O'Carroll my project co-ordinator, and Denise Kantor, my PA.

Thank you so much to Classic FM and to Gramophone Magazine for this huge honour.

It has been an amazing year and this award is the icing on the cake!

Congratulations to all the other award winners and have a fabulous lunch!