Ruth Palmer is a British violinist.

Career

* She graduated from the

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in 2000 with 1st class honours, the 'Roth Prize' for best violin final recital and the 'Lesley Alexander Award' for excellence. She won a Hattori Foundation Junior Award in 1999/2000 * She went on to study at the

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under Dr. Felix Andrievsky, who had been present at the first performance of Shostakovich's 1st Violin Concerto. In 2005 Ruth was made the first ever recipient of the prestigious Ritterman Junior Fellowship at the RCM, having previously been the Mills Williams Junior Fellow in 2004. In 2004 she gave the world première of ''Irony of Fate'', a ballet for one female dancer with solo violinist on-stage created by Rafael Bonachela,

Ballet Rambert Rambert (known as Rambert Dance Company before 2014) is a leading British dance company. Formed at the start of the 20th century as a classical ballet company, it exerted a great deal of influence on the development of dance in the United Kingd ...

's Associate Choreographer for the Madrid International Day of Dance 2004, using the solo violin partita of

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. She debuted at

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In London, and she has given recitals at the

Ravinia Festival Ravinia Festival is an outdoor music venue in Highland Park, Illinois. It hosts a series of outdoor concerts and performances every summer from June to September. The first orchestra to perform at Ravinia Festival was the New York Philharmonic unde ...

in Chicago,

Royal Opera House The Royal Opera House (ROH) is an opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London. The large building is often referred to as simply Covent Garden, after a previous use of the site. It is the home of The Royal ...

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, Cheltenham International Festival of Music,

Queen Elizabeth Hall The Queen Elizabeth Hall (QEH) is a music venue on the South Bank in London, England, that hosts classical, jazz, and avant-garde music, talks and dance performances. It was opened in 1967, with a concert conducted by Benjamin Britten. The Q ...

Purcell Room The Purcell Room is a concert and performance venue which forms part of the Southbank Centre, one of central London's leading cultural complexes. It is named after the 17th century English composer Henry Purcell and has 370 seats. The Purcell Roo ...

, Teatro Albeniz Madrid, Munich Opera House Gala and

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First Shostakovich CD and DVD

In 2006, her début CD "Shostakovich Violin Concerto No 1 & Violin Sonata" was released, with the

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conducted by Ben Wallfisch, and recorded on the "Turkish"

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(1737) loaned to her by

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. The

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had commissioned a documentary about her preparation for this called ''A People's Music'' and a DVD version of this is included with the CD. This was rated 5-stars by the

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, and 4-stars by ''

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'' and

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. The review in ''International Record Review'' described her performance of the Concerto as "a performance which has astounded me...it a truly magnificent account" and on the Sonata commented "although two recordings exist of

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playing this work (with

Sviatoslav Richter Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter, group= ( – August 1, 1997) was a Soviet classical pianist. He is frequently regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time,Great Pianists of the 20th Century and has been praised for the "depth of his int ...

and with

Shostakovich Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, , group=n (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and was regarded throughout his life as a major compo ...

himself – the last recorded in the composer's apartment), Palmer's recording is the finest all-round I have experienced – indeed, her intellectual understanding of this extremely difficult work is wholly exceptional, and her musical acuity is admirable". It was selected as Orchestral Disk of the Month in ''Classic FM Review'' who gave it 5 stars and declared "for my money, this is the Shostakovich centenary's most outstanding release" She was profiled by Norman Lebrecht in the

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in Feb 2007 who commented that of the seven new releases of the concerto during 2006 Palmer's "got the best reviews. At fifth hearing, months later, it unfolds further layers of expressive depth. Her pacing is compelling from the opening phrase, and each stylistic option, every whisper and flutter, has the kind of logic that makes you wonder how the piece could ever have been played otherwise. It is both gravely authoritative and unmistakably personal."

Subsequent work

She also performed Vivaldi's ''The Four Seasons'' at Kenwood House for Classic FM Live. In 2007 she performed the

Brahms violin concerto The Violin Concerto in D major, Opus number, Op. 77, was composed by Johannes Brahms in 1878 and dedicated to his friend, the violinist Joseph Joachim. It is Brahms's only violin concerto, and, according to Joachim, one of the four great Germa ...

and the Elgar Violin Concerto and gave her 3rd

recital on 14 May as well as performing on Radio 3. In October 2007 she gave the world premiere of the "Durham Concerto" by

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with the

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International recognition

On 23 February 2007, Palmer made a guest appearance (reported in the UK, Continental Europe, Asia, America and elsewhere) during a press conference at

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to play the 1729

Stradivarius A Stradivarius is one of the violins, violas, cellos and other string instruments built by members of the Italian family Stradivari, particularly Antonio Stradivari (Latin: Antonius Stradivarius), during the 17th and 18th centuries. They are ...

violin Solomon, ex-Lambert which was auctioned in New York on 2 April for $2.7M compared to the estimated $1–1.5M. Palmer was nominated for a classical

BRIT Award The BRIT Awards (often simply called the BRITs) are the British Phonographic Industry's annual popular music awards. The name was originally a shortened form of "British", "Britain", or "Britannia" (in the early days the awards were sponsore ...

for her Shostakovich recording in the "Young British Classical Performer" category along with Nicky Spence and

Nicola Benedetti Nicola Joy Nadia Benedetti (born 20 July 1987) is an Italian-British classical solo violinist and festival director. Her ability was recognised when she was a child, including the award of BBC Young Musician of the Year when she was 16. She w ...

. She was invited to perform at the launch of the awards, described as "exceptional violinist Ruth Palmer" and her presence was reported around the world. The co-Chair of the Awards Committee said of her "she experienced the typical struggle to be heard. But she took many courageous and unusual steps... Her persistence and artistic accomplishment have clearly paid off!" She won the award on 3 May 2007 at a ceremony in the

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. She performed the Bartók Solo Sonata at the Crossing Border Festival, Royal Theatre,

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, in 2007 and the World Premiere of the Sinatra Suite by

Gwilym Simcock Gwilym Simcock (born 24 February 1981) is a Welsh pianist and composer working in both jazz and classical music, often blurring any distinction between the two musical forms. Simcock was chosen as one of the 1000 Most Influential People in Lo ...

at the

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2008

Notes and references

Relevant links

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Ballet Rambert

Irony of Fate

* Profile in ''

'' The DIY violinist 3 May 2007 * Profile in ''

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