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Ian Bostridge and Mishka Momen Rushdie

Ian Bostridge

Ian Bostridge’s extraordinary international career has taken him to the foremost concert halls, orchestras and opera houses in the world. Synonymous with the works of Schubert and Britten, his recital career has taken him to the Salzburg, Edinburgh, Munich, Vienna, Aldeburgh and Schwarzenberg Schubertiade Festivals and to the main stages of Carnegie Hall, the Bayerische Staatsoper, La Monnaie and Teatro alla Scala. In opera, Ian has received particular praise for his interpretation of Aschenbach Death in Venice at the Deutsche Oper & Peter Quint The Turn of the Screw for Teatro alla Scala. His recordings have won all the major international record prizes and been nominated for 15 GRAMMYs.

Ian has held artistic residencies at the Vienna Konzerthaus and Schwarzenberg Schubertiade, the Barbican, the Luxembourg Philharmonie, the Wigmore Hall and Hamburg Laeiszhalle. Ian has also participated in a Carte-Blanche series with Thomas Quasthoff at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and a Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall and the inaugural Artistic Residency with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. Ian has worked with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, Chicago, Boston, London and BBC Symphony orchestras, the London, New York, Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestras, the Rotterdam Philharmonisch Orkest, Accademia di Santa Cecilia and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Colin Davis, Sir Andrew Davis, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Antonio Pappano, Riccardo Muti, Mstislav Rostropovich, Daniel Barenboim, Daniel Harding and Donald Runnicles.

His book Schubert’s Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obession was published by Faber and Faber in the UK and Knopf in the USA in 2014, and his most recent book, Song and Self, was released in 2023. He was made a CBE in the 2004 New Year’s Honours. In 2014 he was Humanitas Professor of Classical Music at the University of Oxford.

Mishka Momen Rushdie

Piano.

Hailed as “one of the most thoughtful and sensitive of British pianists” (The Times), Mishka Rushdie Momen captivates audiences with her refined and expressive playing.

Mishka Rushdie Momen’s wide repertoire focuses on Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Schumann, whilst reaching back to Gibbons and Rameau. Committed to performing new music, Mishka Rushdie Momen has commissioned works by Nico Muhly and Vijay Iyer, and premiered An Inviting Object by Héloïse Werner at the Lucerne Summer Festival in 2022.

Highlights of the 2023/24 season include debuts with London Philharmonic Orchestra performing Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto, Turku Philharmonic Orchestra with Mozart Piano Concerto No.23, and Mannheim Chamber Orchestra performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.9 and Haydn’s Piano Concerto No.4. Notable orchestral engagements to date include City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss, Orchestre National d’Ile de France, Britten Sinfonia and play/directing Mozart K.271 with Luzerner Sinfonieorchester.

Recital highlights in previous seasons include performances at Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Lucerne Festival, Zurich Tonhalle, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Antwerp deSingel, Leeds International Piano Series, Oxford Piano Festival, Phillips Collection in Washington DC and New York’s 92Y. This season includes dates at the Portland Piano International Series, Gstaad Menuhin Festival, Music in the Round, SJE Arts in Oxford and a return to The Maestro Foundation in Santa Monica.

Mishka Rushdie Momen studied with Joan Havill and Imogen Cooper at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She also studied periodically with Richard Goode, and at the Kronberg Academy, generously funded by the Henle Foundation, with Sir András Schiff, who has presented her in recital and orchestral dates across the USA and Europe.

Credit: MBC&P