David Quirke-Thornton – Chairman
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Richard Hull – Music Director
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Julian Milone – Concert Leader
After studying the violin and composition at the Royal College of Music, Julian joined the first violin section of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra at the tender age of twenty- one before becoming a member of the Philharmonia Orchestra in London in 1983, a position he continues to hold.
Away from the Philharmonia he plays in András Schiff’s hand-picked chamber orchestra, the Cappella Andrea Barca, in violin ensemble concerts with his group, ‘4 Violins & A Bass’, is Head of Strings at King’s Rochester and a professor for Kent Music.
His compositions and arrangements have been performed by orchestras and groups throughout the world, directed by conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, David Robertson, Mikael Pletnev and Carl Davis. Recent arrangements have been recorded for EMI by Alison Balsom and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra under Edward Gardner, and by cellist Natalie Clein with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Vernon Handley.
Julian Milone’s work has appeared on the Australian documentary, ‘4’, based on Vivaldi’s ‘The Four Seasons’ and at the wedding of Prince Charles to Camilla Parker-Bowles, for which he arranged the music. His works have also been performed at US festivals by Gil Shaham and Cho-Liang Lin, in Amsterdam and Cape Town by Ivry Gitlis and Daniel Rowland and by Janine Jansen at her festival in Dubrovnik.