Emanuel Ensemble

The Emanuel Ensemble was founded by Anna Stokes in 2001 and is dedicated to exploring music old and  new, focusing predominantly on works for "flute, cello & piano" & "flute, violin, viola, cello". 

As a soloist, she has given performances for the Qatar Foundation Concert Series–Doha, Beethovenhaus–Bonn, Cheltenham International Festival, UK concert societies and performed concertos/solo works by J. S. Bach, Chaminade, Mozart, Quantz, Reinecke and Rouse. In 2006-2008, she was selected to participate in the Sir James Galway International Masterclass and in the 2007 masterclass won a gold Nagahara headjoint for "Best Class Performer" by popular vote. Anna recently recorded solo works by the composer Tasoulla Christou and performed on the recording of Ben Woolf’s Cello Concerto “Etz Chayim”.

She freelances in orchestras including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Brandenburg Sinfonia, London Concert Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Janácek Philharmonic and Orpheus Sinfonia amongst others.  Recent awards include the Marc Rich Scholarship for Artistic Achievement 2008, Haynes International Flute Competition 2007 Prize Winner-USA, LPO “Future Firsts” Place 2006-2007 and Solti Foundation Award. Other awards include Foundation for Sport and the Arts, EMI Sound Foundation and RCM Wilfred Brown Duo Prize. Anna has also given workshops in the UK, Hong Kong and Qatar.

Anna began studying the flute with Athanasios Kalimeris. She was then awarded a scholarship to the Purcell School of Music where she studied with Anna Pope for five years before being awarded a Foundation Scholarship to the Royal College of Music. Whilst at the RCM, she studied flute with Susan Milan and Stewart McLlwham and graduated in 2004 with First Class Honours, later studying privately with Celia Chambers and Paul Edmund Davies. She has also received coaching from an array of flautists including Susan Thomas, Kenneth Smith, the late Sebastian Bell and composers Edwin Roxburgh, Nicholas Maw and the late Jindrich Feld. 

Since graduating from the Royal Academy of Music in 2006, where she won the Moir Carnegie award for best graduation recital, Louisa Tuck has established herself as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral performer.

Louisa has recorded with NAXOS and Virgin Classics and as a soloist with The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields for a Teldec CD of music by Debbie Wiseman. As a soloist she has recently appeared at the Royal Festival Hall, Spoleto Festival (Italy), St James’s Piccadilly, Soundwaves, IMAI, Leeds International Chamber Music Festival '07, Norfolk & Norwich, Marlboro and Chipping Camden Festivals. She is currently a Fellow of New Music at the Royal Academy of Music.

Louisa was principal cellist of the combined symphony orchestras of the Royal Academy of Music and the Juilliard School at the 2005 BBC Proms, in a live TV broadcast conducted by Sir Colin Davis. She was featured on a DVD of masterclasses at Wigmore Hall given by the veteran cellist Bernard Greenhouse and last Easter she performed live on the BBC as part of the Manchester Passion which has recently won two television awards. Other recent performances and projects have included Hindemith Kammermusik in St. Martin in the Fields, London, and performances of the Colleridge-Taylor Piano Quintet with the Nash Ensemble. She has broadcast live on BBC Radios 2, 3 and 4 and on Classic FM and is regularly invited to perform in the USA at the International Musical Arts Institute chamber music festival.

Louisa studied with Amanda Truelove and Robert Max at The Purcell School, and with Paul Watkins and Philip Sheppard at the Royal Academy of Music. She has received awards from the Musicians Benevolent Fund and the Countess of Munster Musical Trust. She plays on a rare Italian Cello dated 1752 made by Jacobus Cordanus.
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John Reid studied at Clare College, Cambridge and at the Royal Academy of Music with Michael Dussek. He has also taken lessons in song interpretation with Malcolm Martineau and Rudolf Jansen.

A regular visitor to festivals and music clubs across the UK, in recent seasons he has given recitals at Wigmore Hall, Bridgewater Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room, King's Place, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France and the Middle East with artists including Joan Rodgers, Alexander Baillie, Alison Balsom, Jennifer Pike, Sarah Williamson, the Barbirolli Quartet and William Bennett, as well as with regular duo partners tenor Nicholas Mulroy, violinist Thomas Gould and flautist Adam Walker. He has worked with contemporary music groups Radius and the Ossian Ensemble, and is a principal of the Aurora Orchestra. Recent releases on disc include premiere recordings of music by York Bowen (works for two pianos, with Michael Dussek for Dutton Epoch), Rhian Samuel and Charles Camillieri.

He is an Associate of the RAM, and an alumnus of the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme, and his many awards have included the 2004 Gerald Moore Award, as well as the 2003 Kathleen Ferrier and Maggie Teyte Accompaniment Prizes.

Simon Callaghan is equally at home performing the mainstream repertoire as in lesser-known pieces, frequently presenting works by Sterndale Bennett, Parry and Kapustin among others, in his recital programmes.  He recently released a CD of English piano music on the Belgian De Rode Pomp label which received the following review from musicweb-international:

“an essential purchase…one can ask nothing more…stunning playing”

Following his studies at Chetham’s School of Music with Bernard Roberts, Simon was awarded a full scholarship to study with Yonty Solomon at the Royal College of Music, from where he graduated with first class honours and won numerous prizes.  He has also taken awards at the Bromsgrove International Competition, Jean Françaix Concours (Paris) and the Liverpool Young Musician of the Year and is grateful to the Craxton Memorial Trust and several anonymous benefactors for their continued support.

Engagements for the 2009/10 season include collaborations with the ‘cellist Tim Hugh, the Carducci Quartet and the actor Timothy West, a début at Birmingham Symphony Hall (playing Rachmaninov’s Concerto No.2), as well as concertos by Bach, Chopin, Grieg, Rachmaninov and Prokofiev and solo and chamber recitals throughout the UK. 

Born in Norwich, Andrew Joyce pursued his musical studies at the Purcell School of Music with Amanda Truelove and Michal Kaznowski, the Royal College of Music with Alexander Boyarsky, where he won several prizes and was Principal Cellist of all the major ensembles and at the Musikhochschule Lübeck with Troels Svane, as a holder of the coveted DAAD Scholarship.  He has played in masterclasses with Alexander Baillie, David Geringas, Bernard Greenhouse, Alexander Rudin, Karine Georgian, Natalia Gutman, Leonid Gorokhov, the Kopelman Quartet, the Takacs Quartet and Gordan Nikolitch, who continues to be a source of inspiration in his artistic development.             

In 2002 Andrew was invited to perform in Oviedo, Spain with Raine Sonne, Concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic and Igor Sulyga, viola player of the Kopelman Quartet. Other concerts of note include a chamber music tour of Costa Rica and the complete Beethoven Cello Sonatas with pianist Simon Watterton.

Andrew has performed all over the world with the London Symphony, London Philharmonic and Royal Philharmonic Orchestras and also enjoys a busy career as both soloist and chamber msucian, performing regularly with pianist Simon Watterton, the Jigsaw Players, an exciting and versatile group of musicians based in London and the Emanuel Ensemble.  Together with his wife Julia (violin) and James Willshire (piano) he formed the Bartholdy Trio, who currently have a residency at the Charterhouse in London.