Artists

Nathaniel Anderson-Frank

(violin)

Nathaniel Anderson-Frank, violinist, is a native of Toronto who now lives in the United Kingdom. He performs as soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral leader in North America and Europe.

Mr. Anderson-Frank studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music, Université de Paris-Sorbonne and Salzburg’s Mozarteum. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree with academic honours from the Cleveland Institute of Music and a Masters of Music degree, obtained with distinction on full scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
Mr. Anderson-Frank was recently named the Meaker Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and was the recipient of Canada’s Sylva Gelber Music Foundation 2009-10 career development award. Recently he has performanced at the Toronto Centre for the Arts, and Orillia Opera House, at the Spanish festival Encuentro de Musica de Santander, at the Festival Pablo Casals in France.
He regularly leads orchestras, including the Orion Symphony and City Side Sinfonia of London and was a member of the London Symphony Orchestra’s String Experience Scheme. In February 2011, Mr. Anderson-Frank was appointed No. 4 First Violin of the Philharmonia Orchestra.

Mr. Anderson-Frank plays a violin by Spiritus Sorsana, 1731, courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music.

Carson Becke

(piano, co-artistic director)

Carson Becke was born in Ottawa and began learning the piano at the age of five with his Great Grandmother, Mary Mackey.  At 15, he moved to London, England to study at the Purcell School of Music, under Ilana Davids for piano and Jonothan Cole for composition.  He has recently completed his Bachelor of Music degree at the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied with Tatiana Sarkissova.

Since moving to London, Mr. Becke has won the top prizes in the S.V. Rachmaninov Piano Competition (2006, Russia), the BBC young composers of the year competition (2007), and the Harold Craxton Chamber Music Competition. He was the recipient of the Francis Earle and Dorothy Bryant awards at the Royal Academy of Music, as well as a BBC performing arts fund bursary scholarship in 2007. 

Mr. Becke has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician in the UK, Europe and Canada. Most recently, he performed Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto no. 1 with the Ottawa Chamber Orchestra, and played two pre-concert recitals at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.

As a composer, his composition “Three Nocturnes for Orchestra” has been performed by the Purcell Symphony Orchestra in the UK, and the Ottawa Chamber Orchestra in Canada, and has also been heard on BBC Radio Three.  A smaller composition, “John Keats: On Death” was recorded by members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and has been performed in the BBC Proms. 

Recent Reviews

Becke plays Bach
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