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The Flanagan Piano Trio
Biographies
Damon Flanagan (violin)
Following completion of the undergraduate and
postgraduate Masters at the Guildhall School of Music and
Drama, Damon Flanagan went on to pursue his career in
Amsterdam, studying at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with
Ilya Grubert. Since then, his career has taken off in many
varied directions. Through chamber music he has been
involved with the City of London Festival, Queen’s Jubilee,
and many events for the Lord Mayor of London. His orchestral
playing has brought him experience with the BBC Concert
Orchestra, English National Ballet, and the English Symphony
Orchestra.
Emmanuelle Dumas (cello)
Born in Montauban, France, Emmanuelle Dumas began playing
the cello at the age of eleven. She was immediately accepted
into the Conservatoire National de Musique, and completed
her studies at the age of nineteen with a Gold Medal in
Cello, Chamber Music, and Analysis. Parallel to this course,
she specialised her studies at the Ecole Normale de Musique,
Paris, with Genevieve Teulieres. She joined the Guildhall
School of Music and Drama in 1999, with professor Raphael
Sommer, and has recently completed the Masters course,
studying with Louise Hopkins. She has recorded duo
repertoire for Radio France, in the programme ‘Jeunes
Interpretes’, and last year performed in the Wigmore Hall
for the concert ‘In Memory of Paul Tortelier’.
Christopher George (piano)
Jersey-born pianist Christopher George completed his
studies at the Guildhall School of Music in 2004, with the
tuition of Professor Emeritus James Gibb and Caroline
Palmer. During his time at the Guildhall, he built up a
wealth of experience performing throughout the UK, and
studying in Masterclasses with Peter Donohoe, Boris
Berezovsky, Angela Hewitt, the Florestan Piano Trio, and
Leon Fleisher, among others. Over the years, his playing has
been recognized through numerous competition successes,
including First Prize in the EYO Young Soloists Competition
(2003), Equal First Prize in the Marlow Open Piano Concerto
Competition (2004), Third Prize in the Watford Festival
Award (2004), and Semi-Finalist in the Guildhall Gold Medal
(2004). Christopher was also the 2003 recipient of the
Worshipful Company of Musicians’ Carnwath Scholarship.
Christopher has performed concertos with many orchestras in
the UK, and had a piano concerto written for him recently by
Owen Bourne, one of the leading young composers in the
country. The work is entitled Brine – A Jersey Concerto.
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