DOUBLE IMAGE

DAVID CARHART- Director of DOUBLE IMAGE/Pianist   

His debut as a pianist was at the Wigmore Hall in the London Piano Series and he has subsequently performed in this country and abroad and for BBC Radio 3 and Channel 4 television.

He is the founder and director of DOUBLE IMAGE for whom he has written a number of works, the most recent of which was performed at a Bath Festival and subsequently at St. John's Smith Square. As a composer he has received international awards, including most recently, the Italian "Gaspare Spontini" award for a choral work. As pianist /composer he has performed at the Cheltenham and 3 Choirs Festivals. A recent press review spoke of '... his sensitive and virtuosic pianism for whom the myriad difficulties of his chosen composer held no fears'.

CAROLA NIELINGER - Flute

Completed her undergraduate studies in Germany having studied flute with Professor Gülsen Tatu. After coming to London in 1990, she studied flute with Ingrid Culliford and later attended master classes with Kate Lukas and Robert Dick.

She is particularly interested in the performance of contemporary music and a number of composers have written pieces especially for her.

She has performed regularly with DOUBLE IMAGE in a wide range of repertoire and also with Ensemble Corrente with whom she broadcast for BBC Radio 3 from the Aldeburgh Festival. Recently she was soloist in the Badings Concerto with the Dreiländerensemble and future plans include complete performances of the flute sonatas of J.S.Bach

ANDREW SPARLING - Clarinet

Has a wide ranging career as a solo, chamber and orchestral musician and has gained a special reputation as an interpreter of living composers. He has appeared on BBC1 and Channel 4 Television, and made many broadcasts and recordings with the ensembles Lontano, Apartment House, Ensemble Exposé, Opus 20, Ixion and the London Sinfonietta.

His solo performances have included contemporary music festivals in London (Almeida), Huddersfield, New York, Belfast and broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and Danish Radio.With the pianist Thalia Myers he has performed at the Tate and National Portrait Galleries, and in Bath, St Helier and Ho Chi Minh City.

He made his concerto debut at the Royal Festival Hall, London, with the Philharmonia Orchestra in the UK premiere of the Capriccio Notturno by Nicholas Bacri. He has given chamber concerts throughout Europe and for the British Council in Egypt, Jordan, Indonesia and Sri Lanka. he has had creative composition projects at the Spitalfields Festival, Rainbow over Europe, NYO, and at schools in London and Edinburgh.

PHILIPPA IBBOTSON - Violin

Has been the recipient of many awards and was the winner of the prestigious Sascha Lasserson National Violin Competition. She has had very wide experience as a soloist having appeared with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the ECO, London Festival Orchestra and many others as well as appearing regularly with the LPO, RPO, BBC Symphony, CBSO and the London Sinfonietta.

Her numerous recordings include those as leader of the Flesch Quartet and the Lyric Ensemble. she has participated in numerous educational workshops in U.K. schools with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, and is currently researching the links between music and mental health.

MIRIAM LOWBURY - Cello

Read music at Bristol University and then studied at the RCM with Christopher Bunting and Amaryllis Fleming. Winning a Leverhulme scholarship enabled her to study chamber music for 3 years with the Amadeus Quartet.

As cellist of the Bingham Quartet for 8 years she toured all over Great Britain and Europe, performing in the major London concert halls, on radio and TV and appearing with guest artistes, including Rafael Wallfisch, Jack Brymer and Bruce Kent. She has made some highly acclaimed recordings, including a CD of Elizabeth Maconchy quartets which was nominated for a gramophone award.

In addition to DOUBLE IMAGE engagements, Miriam is regularly invited to play with various chamber groups including Fourth Dimension, the Feinstein Ensemble and Oxford Concert Party. She has performed as Principal in several London based orchestras and plays on a fine Thomas Dodd cello made in London in 1812.

She has teaching and workshop experience with the Alberni String Quartet Chamber Music Courses at Madingley, Cambridge and Little Benslow, also in school workshops organised by the education departments of the London Mozart Players, New London Orchestra and Primavera.