Author Profile: Toby Deller

Articles written by Toby Deller

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29 April 2013

Toby Deller

Double bass player Leon Bosch on uncovering new repertoire

Leon Bosch has an inquisitive attitude towards the solo and chamber repertoire available for the double bass, and a steadfast enthusiasm to explore, uncover and share new and lesser-known works. Ahead of the release of some of his newest finds and commissions, this musical detective talks to Toby Deller

‘You see there’s a lot of interesting things to do in this world’ – Neeme Järvi

28 April 2013

Toby Deller

Record maker | Neeme Järvi

With a discography of 400-plus recordings and a string of releases planned for 2013, Neeme Järvi is an ambassador for the recording industry. Toby Deller catches up with the prolific conductor ahead of his appearance with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in the UK later this month

'Just because the world expects the violas to be not as fast or not as loud or not as precise, not as virtuosic as violinists or cellists, it’s not a reason to let go and have lower expectations of yourself' - Antoine Tamestit

23 April 2013

Toby Deller

The virtuosic violist | Antoine Tamestit

When someone is as musically accomplished as violist Antoine Tamestit, boasting a truly international career and an impressive discography, it’s hard to know where to begin as an interviewer. Toby Deller finds the player’s lifelong relationship with Bach a good starting point

Colin Matthews Photo: © Maurice Foxall

28 March 2013

Toby Deller

Colin Matthews et al | Panufnik Variations

New work by Matthews and nine former Panufnik Scheme composers will be premiered on 13 April at the Barbican with the London Symphony Orchestra as part of its LSO Futures week.

Up and running: The colyer-Fergusson Building

27 March 2013

Toby Deller

Ready in Kent | University of Kent

A long time in the planning, the University of Kent’s new music building is establishing itself as a creative hub, and not just for students, writes Toby Deller

St Luke's

26 February 2013

Toby Deller

Discovery channel | 10 years of LSO St Luke’s

It is ten years since the London Symphony Orchestra renovated a city church to use for rehearsals, recordings and a bit of education work. But the educational side has become increasingly important and feeds into all the orchestra’s work. Toby Deller looks at a decade of LSO St Luke’s

‘What’s important with technology is not to see it as a panacea’ – Simon Hewitt Jones

8 January 2013

Toby Deller

The new specialists | ViolinSchool

An innovative violin school is thinking well outside the box of traditional teaching practice, writes Toby Deller.

Rambert at New Music 20x12

7 January 2013

Toby Deller

PRS instigates a New Music Biennial

PRS for Music Foundation has announced the formation of a New Music Biennial, starting in 2014, and is inviting organisations to submit project ideas for funding.

Philharmonia Orchestra. credit benjamin ealovega

4 January 2013

Toby Deller

Birthday playlist

Toby Deller takes a look ahead at a year of significant date

30 November 2012

Toby Deller

Peter Moores Foundation goes out with a bang

The Peter Moores Foundation is concluding half a century of support for the arts – including performance of neglected operas – with a spectacular Swansong Project.

Rolf Hind (credit Mykel Nicolau)

17 November 2012

Toby Deller

Rolf Hind | Accordion concerto

‘The idea is that you breathe in everyone else’s pain and suffering, everyone in the room - or, if you’re really advanced, everyone in the world - and you breathe back joy and calm. I don’t see how you can illustrate that idea in music but I like the idea formally that the music gets sucked up - everyone’s playing - and then it goes out again. So it’s quite a tempestuous journey in the slow movement, it’s very unpredictable, where [the soloist] will try and deal with all these crises by taking the material on himself like a kind of therapist.’

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6 October 2012

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Next steps: supporting emerging profesional musicians

Earlier this year, the Musicians’ Benevolent Fund published a survey of its grant recipients (Supporting Emerging Professional Musicians) to find out how the organisation could best support them. Speaking about the survey, awards and partnerships manager Tim Foxon explained: ‘One of the issues that has most interested me in conversations with musicians (and emerging from the research) is the extent to which formal conservatoire training prepares you for the realities and pressures of the profession. It is clear that some colleges are better than others but a general feeling out there is that many musicians are not offered adequate support in the practical skills required to sustain a professional career.’

Contemporary look: The Ligeti Quartet

19 May 2012

Toby Deller

The specialists: Ligeti Quartet

It may or may not have been the Stoke Newington premiere of György Ligeti’s first string quartet, but it certainly wasn’t the first time the Ligeti Quartet had played it that evening. The four players had barely finished an early evening recital in central London when, accompanied by a few fans and Classical Music, they piled into a bus and headed across town for a restaurant basement.