Word counted biogs46 words Clare Deniz is an established concert cellist. She has performed throughout the UK and in Europe at Music Societies and Music Clubs and at Festivals. She is a nominated and elected Member of The Royal Society of Musicians and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. 59 words Clare Deniz is a former solo principle cellist of The Royal Ballet and performs as a soloist and chamber music artist throughout the UK and in Europe.Amongst a stream of eminent teachers beginning at The Royal Academy of Music she has been taught by Jacqueline du Pre and Paul Tortelier who was her mentor up until his death. 164 words Since her Purcell Room debut Clare Deniz has performed throughout the UK and in Europe at Festivals, Music Clubs and Societies. Amongst her performing commitments she performs regularly for The National Trust and curated a programme for cello and classical guitar for the recent Capability Brown Festival 300 in 2016.Clare has recently performed Bach Suites at Gloucester Cathedral and at Worcester Cathedral and has given unaccompanied concerts at Amsterdam Concertgebouw and in Paris.She has appeared on television twice playing her cello to nightingales in the manner of Beatrice Harrison who was broadcast doing this in the 30s and 40s.Clare is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Member of The Royal Society of Musicians and she has a Post Graduate Diploma from Queens University Belfast. She studied a language at The School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies UCL London University and she has a Masters Degree from Goldsmiths College London University. She entered University at Post Graduate level. 259 words Since her Purcell Room debut Clare Deniz has performed throughout the UK at Festivals and music clubs and societies. Amongst her performing commitments she performs regularly for The National Trust and curated a programme for cello and classical guitar for the recent Capability Brown Festival 300 in 2016.Clare has recently performed the virtuosic Bach Suites nos 4,5 and 6 at Gloucester Cathedral and nos 1,2 and 3 at Worcester Cathedral. She has performed unaccompanied concerts at Amsterdam Concertgebouw and in Paris.She has appeared on television twice playing her cello to nightingales in the manner of Beatrice Harrison who was broadcast doing this in the 30s and 40s. Her concerto performances have included Haydn C major and Tschaikovsky Rococo Variations both given for the Jacqueline du Pre Appeal Fund and additionally the Elgar and Haydn D major have been performed in Wales and Cornwall respectively. Amongst a stream of eminent teachers beginning at The Royal Academy of Music she has been taught by Jacqueline du Pre and Paul Tortelier who encouraged her and was an inspiration and mentor until his death. Clare is listed in International Who's who in Classical Music and an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Member of The Royal Society of Musicians and she has a Post Graduate Diploma from Queens University Belfast. She studied a language at The School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies UCL London University and she has a Masters Degree from Goldsmiths College London University. She entered university at Post Graduate level. 539 words Clare won a Junior Exhibition to attend the prestigious Royal Academy of Music after playing her cello for only one year when at school. She was then accepted as a student to study Performance at the Senior Academy. She has held posts of solo principle cellist with the Royal Ballet playing solos for Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev and was promoted twice through audition to the position of Sub principle at the English National Opera where she played for seven years appearing at BBC Proms and she was chosen as one of a small select number of the company to perform at the Vienna Festival.She was then offered the position of solo principle cellist with Oxford Pro Musica performing at the Sheldonian theatre and Holywell music room and many Oxford Colleges. She has continued her cello studies throughout her professional career and has performed and toured with the Northern Sinfonia now titled Royal chamber orchestra in the north of England and performed with them at Queen Elizabeth Hall .She has also performed with The Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Since her Purcell Room debut Clare Deniz performs throughout the UK and in Europe at Festivals and music clubs and societies. She has played in venues across the country as far apart as Penzance and Denbigh North Wales, Gower and Salisbury at festivals such as the Du Maurier Festival now known as Words and Music and Hebden Bridge and Cheltenham Festival.Cambridge and Oxford festivals several times. Unaccompanied performances have been given in Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Paris Her second Concertgebouw recital was filmed by a Japanese promotion company and this was arranged by the Concertgebouw management. She held the post of Cellist in Residence at the South Hill Park Art centre and performed recitals at the English Music Festivals there and conducted popular workshops and gave other recitals outside the festival itinerary at the Art Centre. With a small chamber ensemble she toured Spain appearing in Bilbao, Jerez and Cordoba and with another ensemble of six players performed at the South Bank and at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt She has given first performances of compositions by the Wessex Composers Group formed by the ISM and in addition the ISM chose her to play in their Counterpoint 11 Contemporary concert recital series. Clare is a registered 'listed supplier of music' for The National Trust as she performs regularly for them. She has performed at Tyntesfield,Ham House Felbrigg Hall Greys Court and Wimpole Hall. She curated and performed a programme for cello and classical guitar duo for the Trust for the Capability Brown Festival 300 in 2016. The concert tickets were sold out months in advance.She has performed several times at Hatchlands Park where the magnificent Cobbe Collection of historic keyboard instruments is housed, The concerts are always sold out well before the concert date and Clare has been accompanied several times in concert by Chopin's piano.Other stately homes in which she has performed not connected to the National Trust are Melton Constable Hall and Compton Verney. Clare has recently performed the virtuosic unaccompanied Bach Suites nos 4,5 and 6 at Gloucester Cathedral along with nos 1,2 and 3 at Worcester Cathedral.She also gave a highly successful cello and piano duo recital at Peterborough Cathedral. She has performed unaccompanied recitals at Amsterdam Concertgebouw and in addition she gave two unaccompanied concerts in Paris. She was invited as featured artist to perform a chamber concert in Brussels. She has been engaged by the BBC and BBC South East to appear on television to play her cello to nightingales in the manner of Beatrice Harrison who was broadcast successfully doing this nightly in the 30s and 40s at the behest of the Director General of the BBC Lord Reith The purpose of the television appearances was to quash the intermittant rumours that the nightingales were not genuine but were an impersonator Clare proved that the nightingales do most certainly sing and she has a magical clip recorded of herself in a Gloucestershire wood on You Tube called 'rare woodland duet' The occasion prompted great interest and the beautiful clip has been played on radio accompanied by interviews. Clare's concerto performances have included Haydn C major and Tschaikovsky Rococo Variations given for the Jacqueline du Pre Appeal Fund. The Elgar and Haydn D major concertos have been performed in Wales and Cornwall respectively. Amongst a stream of eminent teachers beginning at The Royal Academy of Music she has been taught by Jacqueline du Pre and Paul Tortelier who acknowledged her as a pupil and encouraged her and was an inspiration and mentor until his death. Clare enjoys chamber music alongside concerto performances and has created and performed with many ensembles.She is currently performing as cello and piano duo and as cello and classical guitar duo called Dieci Corde (ten strings)and as flute cello and piano trio called Trio Pierné with Yoon-seok Shin as the pianist. Clare is listed in International Who's who in Classical Music and an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a nominated and is an elected Member of The Royal Society of Musicians and she has a Post Graduate Diploma from Queens University Belfast. She studied a language at The School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies UCL London University and she has a Masters Degree from Goldsmiths College London University. 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