A highly versatile musician, Julian Rolton is equally at ease as a concerto soloist, chamber musician and accompanist. He has worked with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra in Canada, performed concertos by Britten, Shostakovich and Strauss in the London South Bank Centre, and Kagel’s Phantasiestücke with Martyn Brabbins and Sinfonia 21 in the Ars Musica Festival in Brussels, the British première of which was broadcast by the BBC. Having studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada, Julian Rolton has performed for music clubs throughout Britain and played at festivals in Cambridge, Warwick, Peterborough, Bath and Oxford. As an accompanist he has appeared in recitals and recordings, and regularly played for master-classes at the Snape Maltings. He performs regularly with the violist Martin Outram and together they have recorded sonatas by Rawsthorne and Bliss for Naxos. He is a member of the Chagall Trio which has released an acclaimed recording of works by Dame Ethel Smyth for Meridian and appeared at festivals throughout Britain, with broadcasts on BBC Radio 3. Julian Rolton teaches at the Rudolf Steiner School, Kings Langley.
