Representing the Royal College of Music
Programme
Klein – Trio for Violin, Viola and Cello
Beethoven – String trio No 5 in C minor
Performers
Polish violinist Kamila Bydlowska graduated from the Royal College of Music with an Artist Diploma in Performance where she was under the tutelage of Ani Schnarch, supported by a Jacqueline Ward Award. She has given performances at venues including Walt Disney Hall and St James’s Piccadilly, and has performed as soloist with orchestras including Ealing Symphony Orchestra and Guildford Symphony Orchestra. A winner of multiple awards, she is the recipient of the Ministry of Culture of Poland scholarship and the Artistic Excellence Award from Indiana University.
Lauded by The Strad for her ‘beguiling…thrilling and exuberant’ Royal Festival Hall debut, Shiry Rashkowsky pursues an international solo, chamber, teaching and orchestral career. Shiry is a prize-winner of the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund, Cecil Aronowitz Viola Prize, Philharmonia Orchestra Meyer Award, and the Countess of Munster Musical Trust Recital Scheme. In 2017 she appeared as a Selected Artist for Making Music. She has performed in venues including the Royal Festival Hall, the Royal Albert Hall and Cadogan Hall, and has broadcast live for BBC Radio 3 and BBC 1, 2 and 4, New York’s WQXR, Italy’s RAI and the Israeli Broadcasting Authority.
Swiss cellist Timothée Botbol has given solo performances in venues including St John’s Smith Square, Kings Place, Lausanne Steinway Hall and Kultur-Rockt Festival in Germany with pianist Alexander Krichel, as well as recently performing with the Geneva Conservatoire String Orchestra as guest soloist on tour in Italy. In February 2017 he was awarded the Grand Prize Special from all categories at the II Augustin Aponte International Music Competition, Tenerife. A graduate of the Artist Diploma course at the Royal College of Music where he studied with Alexander Chaushian, Timothée has performed with orchestras including the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande at venues including Geneva’s Victoria Hall.
