Indira Grier & Kumi Matsuo
Cello/Piano Duo
About the musicians
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Indira Grier
Already the recipient of several international prizes, Indira Grier has been invited to the Verbier Festival Soloist Academy in 2021 and 2022, has won Making Music’s 2019 concert scheme – the ‘Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artist Award’, the 2019 RCM Unaccompanied Bach Prize, the 2018 RCM Concerto Competition performing the Elgar Cello Concerto, and a Gold Medal in the 2019 Vienna International Music Competition. She currently holds teaching positions at the Yehudi Menuhin School and the Junior Royal College of Music. In recent years she has also won awards from the Hattori Foundation, the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and Help Musicians UK. Other competition successes include winning prizes at the 2016 Royal Overseas League Competition, the 2014 Tunbridge Wells International Young Artists Competition and the 2012 Bromsgrove International Young Musicians’ Platform. She was awarded the Junior Guilhermina Suggia Gift on two consecutive occasions (2010 & 2012).
Indira has performed across the UK and Europe in venues including Wigmore Hall, St. John’s Smith Square, St. James’ Piccadilly, Blackheath Halls, Sheldonian Theatre Oxford, Èglise de Verbier and Palazzo Chigi-Saracini Siena. She has participated regularly in masterclasses with David Geringas, Frans Helmerson, Thomas Ades and Steven Isserlis at the Accademia Chigiana, Interlaken Classics, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, IMS Prussia Cove and Verbier Festival.
She has been performing as soloist from the age of twelve working with conductors such as Stephen Cleobury, Jonathan Willcocks and Martin Andre, and has also performed frequently across the UK as part of the Grier Trio. A keen chamber musician, Indira’s recent collaborations have been with pianists Daniel Lebhardt and Ariel Lanyi, and she has enjoyed working with artists including Simon Crawford-Phillips, Andrew Marriner, Clio Gould, Matthew Truscott, Rebecca Gilliver and the Castalian Quartet in festivals such as Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music, Winchester Chamber Music Festival and Wye Valley Chamber Music festival. Last season included performances of Schumann, Dvorak, Elgar and Finzi concertos. She was invited by the Verbier Festival to perform in Glasgow during the 2021 COP26 Summit alongside other alumni from the Soloist Academy.
Indira studied with Alexander Chaushian at the Royal College of Music, London. Previously she was taught by Melissa Phelps, and then by Troels Svane at the Musikhochschule Luebeck. In addition to her playing, Indira read English Literature at University College London.
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Kumi Matsuo
Kumi Matsuo was born in Tokyo, Japan. Winner of the 5th Louisiana International Piano Competition in 2013, she has also won Second Prize at the 75th Music Competition of Japan in 2006, Third Prize at the 22nd Ferrol International Piano Competition in 2008 and First Prize at the 6th Isidor Bajic International Piano Competition in 2012. Kumi graduated from the Toho Gakuen High School of Music and the Toho Gakuen University of Music in Tokyo. In 2007 she moved to London for her further study at the Royal College of Music where she gained an Artist Diploma and a Master of Music in Performance. Kumi studied piano with Jyoko Gondo, Mikhail Voskresensky, John Blakely and Ashley Wass and chamber music with Jan Repko. In 2008 Kumi won RCM concerto competition and gave her London debut playing Ravel’s Piano Concerto for Left Hand in Cadogan Hall with RCM Sinfonietta conducted by Peter Stark. In 2009 she played Schnittke’s Concerto Grosso No.1 with RCM Chamber Orchestra under Vladimir Jurowski the Queen Elisabeth Hall and in 2012 she also performed Prokofiev’s 3rd Piano Concerto with RCM Symphony Orchestra under Martin André at the Royal College of Music.
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