Keith Pascoe (born 1959) is a

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and

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from

Liverpool, England Liverpool is a port city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary, near the Irish Sea, north-west of London. With a population of (in ), Liverpool is the administrative, c ...

, best known for his work with musical ensembles such as the

Chamber Orchestra of Europe The Chamber Orchestra of Europe (COE), established in 1981, is an orchestra based in London. The orchestra comprises about 60 members from across Europe. The players pursue parallel careers as international soloists, members of chamber groups and ...

, the London Philharmonic, and the RTÉ Vanbrugh String Quartet.

Background

Born in

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, Pascoe studied

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with Jaroslav Vanecek,

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with Eileen Reynolds, and conducting with Norman Del Mar at the

Royal College of Music The Royal College of Music (RCM) is a conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK. It offers training from the undergraduate to the doctoral level in all aspects of Western Music including pe ...

in London. He holds first-class

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(MA and

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) from both

Cork Institute of Technology Cork Institute of Technology (CIT; ) was an Institutes of technology in the Republic of Ireland, institute of technology, located in Cork (city), Cork, Ireland. Upon its dissolution, the institute had 17,000 students studying in art, business, ...

and NUI, University College Cork respectively, and received an Hon. ARAM from the Royal Academy of Music in London. In 2016 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Concert Hall in Ireland. He currently lives in Cork, Ireland.

Career

Pascoe's professional life began in 1981, when he became a founding member (and leader) of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Subsequent full-time positions included sub-leader of the London Philharmonic at the age of twenty-three, assistant director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields (with whom he has appeared as soloist), and ten years with exclusive EMI artists, the Britten Quartet. Since 1998, Pascoe has been a

ist with the Vanbrugh Quartet,

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to University College Cork. He is Lecturer in Chamber Music and Violin at the

Dublin Institute of Technology Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT, ) was a major third-level institution in Dublin, Ireland. On 1 January 2019 DIT was dissolved and its functions were transferred to the Technological University Dublin, as TU Dublin City Campus. The insti ...

, Conservatory of Music, and Conductor of the Cork Fleischmann Symphony Orchestra.

Recent works

More recently, in addition to having a busy international schedule, Pascoe has been researching the music of the eighteenth-century composer

Luigi Boccherini Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini (, also , ; 19 February 1743 – 28 May 1805) was an Italian composer and cellist of the Classical era whose music retained a courtly and '' galante'' style even while he matured somewhat apart from the major classi ...

. His critical editions of a previously unpublished works by Boccherini, issued by HH Edition, were critically acclaimed. From 2004-2016, Pascoe was conductor of the Cork Symphony Orchestra. From 2016 he has been conductor of the Cork Fleischmann Symphony Orchestra.

References

External links

Vanbrugh Quartet

Edition HH

City of Cork Symphony Orchestra

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