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Mie Hayashi |
Graham O'Sullivan
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Susanna Pell
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Mie Hayashi
Mie Hayashi was born in Kyoto, Japan, and studied at Kobe College, graduating summa cum laude. In London she studied at the Royal College of Music and Royal Academy of Music, with Robert Woolley and Laurence Cummings, graduating with distinction on the postgraduate performance courses of both conserbatoires. She was awarded the Century Fund scholarship supporting her studies at the Royal College and Lincoln Scholarship supporting her studies at the Royal Academy of Music. During her studies she won the Croft Sherry Ensemble Prize with the chamber ensemble, Abendmusik, as well as the Ruth Dyson Keyboard Prize and Amadeus Fortepiano Prize.
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With the ensemble, La Sfera Musicale, she won top prize at the Japan Early Music Festival 2005 and honourable mention at the Bruges International Early Music Competition 2006. With Abendmusik, and her husband, the flautist/recorder player Graham O'Sullivan, she has performed throughout the UK, including concerts for the Countess of Munster Recital scheme, and recitals for the Cheltenham International Music Festival, the Barcelona Early Music Festival, the National Trust recital series at Fenton House and the Lake District Summer Festival. With La Sfera Musicale, she has performed recitals across Europe and in Japan. As an orchestral musician, she has received invitations to perform with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Northern Sinfonia, the Kyoto Philharmonic, and the London Handel Orchestra and has shared a concert platform with many renowned musicians, including Laurence Cummings, Rachel Brown, Masahiro Arita and Masaaki Suzuki.
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Graham O'Sullivan
Graham O'Sullivan read English Literature at Cambridge University, and then moved on to postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he was taught by Lisa Beznosiuk and Rachel Brown, graduating with distinction. Scholarships from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and the Leverhulme Trust supported further studies with the Belgian flautist Barthold Kuijken at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague in Holland, where he also graduated with distinction in 2004.
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As a recitalist he has performed across the UK as part of the Countess of Munster Trust Recital Scheme. Much in demand as an orchestral musician, he has performed and recorded with the English Baroque Soloists, the Dunedin Consort and Players, the Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble, the Hanover Band, the Academy of Ancient Music, the English Concert, the Gabrieli Consort and Players and the European Union Baroque Orchestra.
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Susanna Pell
Susanna studied music at the University of York and then went on to study the viol with Jordi Savall at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel.
In 1987 she joined the innovative medieval ensemble The Dufay Collective and a year later gave her first performance with the world renowned viol consort Fretwork, becoming a full-time member soon afterwards. With these groups she toured the USA, Japan, South America, Australia, the Middle East and India, in addition to performances closer to home, and made many recordings for radio and disc, including Purcell: Complete Fantazias (Winner of the Baroque Instrumental Gramophone Award 2009 : Editor’s Choice, Classic FM Magazine July 2009); Birds on Fire - Jewish Music for Viols (Gramophone Magazine: September 2008—Editor’s Choice). With Fretwork in recent years she has explored a large body of newly commissioned music by such composers as George Benjamin, Orlando Gough, Alexander Goehr, Elvis Costello, Gavin Bryars and Tan Dun and appeared on Ryuichi Sakamoto's recent disc Out of Noise.
In 1987 she joined the innovative medieval ensemble The Dufay Collective and a year later gave her first performance with the world renowned viol consort Fretwork, becoming a full-time member soon afterwards. With these groups she toured the USA, Japan, South America, Australia, the Middle East and India, in addition to performances closer to home, and made many recordings for radio and disc, including Purcell: Complete Fantazias (Winner of the Baroque Instrumental Gramophone Award 2009 : Editor’s Choice, Classic FM Magazine July 2009); Birds on Fire - Jewish Music for Viols (Gramophone Magazine: September 2008—Editor’s Choice). With Fretwork in recent years she has explored a large body of newly commissioned music by such composers as George Benjamin, Orlando Gough, Alexander Goehr, Elvis Costello, Gavin Bryars and Tan Dun and appeared on Ryuichi Sakamoto's recent disc Out of Noise.
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She performed on the soundtrack of several films, among them Zeffirelli's Hamlet, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and The Da Vinci Code and appears on Kate Bush's 2005 release Aerial. Her freelance music making saw her regularly appearing with The Purcell Quartet, Phantasm, The New London Consort, The Taverner Consort, The King's Consort, The Sixteen, The Parley of Instruments and Opera Restor'd. In 2006 she qualified as a teacher of the Alexander Technique and in 2007 relocated from London to Richmond, North Yorkshire with her husband, lutenist Jacob Heringman and daughter, Edie.
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In 2011 a desire to reduce her carbon footprint and to spend more time at home prompted her to quit international touring and she is now focusing her energy on performing and teaching as locally as possible
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She teaches viol at the University of York and Durham University. She is focusing her performing on her duo with Jacob Heringman, Pellingmans' Saraband; The Herschel Trio, with Graham O'Sullivan and Mie Hayashi; and Da Camera with Emma Murphy, recorder and Steven Devine, harpsichord.