Alison Lambert
Alison Lambert (born October 1957 in U.K) is a British clarinetist.
Biography
Lambert studied clarinet at the Royal Northern College of Music where she was a major scholarship recipient, before accepting a scholarship to study with Professor Wolfgang Meyer in Karlsruhe, Germany. Upon graduation she moved to Israel to take up the position of Principal Bass Clarinet with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Lawrence Foster, with whom she toured extensively, also regularly broadcasting live on Israeli television and radio. Successive international tours include Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival and Salzburg Music Festival. Alison has appeared as soloist internationally with the Hallé Orchestra, Hillel Orchestra, Jerusalem, Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra, Collegium Musicum Karlsruhe and Collegium Musicum Heidelberg. Radio broadcasts include a live performance for BBC Proms/BBC Radio 3 of Magnus Lindberg’s clarinet quintet.
She currently works regularly as clarinettist with the Royal Shakespeare Company and her many chamber music concerts have seen her appear alongside such artists as John Nettles, Julian Lloyd Webber and most recently with Sir Willard White as part of the Bromsgrove Festival.
Together with her duo partner, Adam Johnson, Alison has been performing repertoire both traditional and contemporary for the last 12 years. They have been invited to appear as a duo throughout the U.K. and abroad. Festival performances include Ludwigsburg Festival, Germany, Criccieth Festival, Wales and Impuls Festival of Contemporary Music, Austria. In the U.K they have performed for audiences at numerous venues, including Bath Recital Artists’ Trust, Cheltenham Music Society, Woodend Barn, Aberdeenshire, Jacqueline du Pré Centre, Oxford and St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London
Alison has been clarinet tutor at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama since September 2003.
References
External links
- Official website for Lambert and Johnson