David Le Page

Violin Tutor

 

 

David Le Page was born in Guernsey and began learning the violin at the age of seven.  He gained a place at the Yehudi Menuhin School, aged eleven, where he studied with Margaret Norris. He was a prize winner in both the BBC Young Musician of the Year and the Yehudi Menuhin competition and completed his studies in Bern with Igor Ozim and in London with Sidney Griller.

 

David has worked with a diverse selection of artists and ensembles including the Kreutzer quartet, Adderbury Ensemble, Billy Jenkins, Thomas Ades, Chroma, Matthew Sharp, Nicholas Daniel, James, Roger Eno, Keith Tippett, Errolyn Wallen, Guy Johnson, Abdullah Ibrahim, John Tavener, Sir Michael Tippett, Phillip Sheppard, Lucy Bailey and the Gogmagogs. He is director of The Harborough Collective and has formed his own groups the Le Page Ensemble, Mysterious Barricades  and Subway Piranhas.

 

In 1999 David was appointed leader of the Orchestra of the Swan, a Stratford-upon-Avon based chamber orchestra, which has gained critical acclaim for its imaginative programming, commitment to new music and numerous recordings. David regularly appears as soloist and director with the orchestra. In 2013 David recorded and released 'The Reinvention of Harmony and Imagination', an album of his own material and in May 2013 he was appointed president of the European String Teachers Association. David plays on an 1874 violin made by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume.

 

 

"Anyone who heard this account from violinist David Le Page will have come away exhilarated and gratified, as though having experienced the work for the first time. Le Page's take on the piece was fresh, imaginative, daringly improvisatory. This was the most refreshing account I have ever heard." - Birmingham Post