At the age of 21, Chloë Hanslip has already established herself as an artist of distinction on the international stage. Her recent recordings for Naxos have received outstanding reviews and include John Adams’s Violin Concerto [Naxos 8.559302] and Romantic Concertos [Naxos 8.570554] by Benjamin Godard. Her two earlier CDs with the London Symphony Orchestra for Warner Classics, won her, respectively, the German Echo Klassik Award for Best Newcomer (2002), and Young British Classical Performer at the Classical BRITS (2003). Her impressive recording catalogue continues to grow with a recital disc of works by Bazzini.
Chloë Hanslip’s talent was recognised when she appeared as the ‘infant prodigy violinist’ in Ralph Fiennes’s film adaptation of Pushkin’s Evgeny Onyegin, and made a significant contribution to Maxim Vengerov’s master-class, shown on Channel 4 and throughout Europe, as part of the documentary Playing by Heart. Her mentor for ten years has been the Russian pedagogue Zakhar Bron. She has also worked with Robert Masters, Ida Haendel, Salvatore Accardo and Gerhard Schulz. She made her BBC Proms début in 2002, her United States concerto début in 2003, and has performed in major venues in Britain and other European countries, as well at Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Arts Space in Tokyo and the Seoul Arts Centre. In the 2005/6 season she made an impressive début with Mariss Jansons and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich.
Orchestras she has performed with include the major British orchestras, and the Seattle Symphony, Malaysian Philharmonic, Moscow State Symphony, Czech National Symphony, Lithuanian National Symphony, Belgrade Philharmonic, Munich Symphony, Lahti Symphony and Tokyo Symphony Orchestras. Conductors she has worked with include Mariss Jansons, Sir Andrew Davis, Leonard Slatkin, Paul Daniel, Pavel Kogan, Richard Hickox, Gianandrea Noseda, Gerard Schwarz, Barry Wordsworth, Claus Peter Flor, Martyn Brabbins, Paul Freeman and Petr Altrichter.
In the 2008/2009 season she made her début with the Tonkűnstler, Cincinnati Symphony, RAI Torino and Norwegian Radio Symphony Orchestras. Chamber Music has become an integral part of her life. She is a regular participant in Open Chamber Music at Prussia Cove, working with Steven Isserlis and Gerhard Schulz, and at the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Finland where she returned for the 40th Anniversary celebrations in 2009. She was chosen to perform the European première of Sir John Tavener’s Ikon of Eros, and the world première of the first extract of Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s Phantasia on Phantom of the Opera. She is actively pursuing new and unusual repertoire to add to her extensive concerto, recital and recording programmes.
