Alice Neary

Alice Neary enjoys a varied performing career as a chamber musician, soloist and guest principal cellist. She is a former Principal Cello of BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Her festival performances include BBC Proms chamber series, Marlboro, Bath, Santa Fe (USA), AWE New Zealand and Lofoten. Recent performances include Strauss’s Don Quixote and concertos by Honegger and Cheryl Frances-Hoad.

She recently joined the London Haydn Quartet and was a member of the Gould Piano Trio from 2001 to 2018, recording over 25 CDs with them, as well as premiering new works by Sir James MacMillan and Mark Simpson.

Solo recordings include concertos by Tovey, Robin Stevens and Howells and sonatas by Mendelssohn, Sterndale Bennett, Tovey, Pamela Harrison and Ireland.

She has appeared as guest cellist with numerous groups, including the Nash Ensemble, Manchester Collective, Academy of St Martin’s Chamber Ensemble, Ensemble 360 and the Endellion, Elias, Sacconi, Maxwell and Heath quartets. She collaborates with pianists Viv McLean, Jâms Coleman and Benjamin Frith. Regular visits to IMS at Prussia Cove, Marlboro Festival USA and Wye Valley Chamber Music festival provide ongoing inspiration. She has made recent appearances as guest principal cello with the Oslo Philharmonic, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Philharmonia, Hallé, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, BBC Philharmonic and BBC Symphony orchestras.

She studied with Ralph Kirshbaum at the Royal Northern College of Music and, as a Fulbright scholar, with Timothy Eddy at Stony Brook, USA. She won the 1998 Pierre Fournier Award, making her debut at Wigmore Hall the following year.

She has previously taught cello at the RNCM and Royal College of Music and is now based in her home town of Cardiff, where she is a fellow at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. She and her husband David Adams founded the Penarth Chamber Music Festival in 2014.

Alice Neary plays a cello by Alessandro Gagliano of 1710.

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Mae gan Alice Neary yrfa berfformio llawn amrywiaeth fel cerddor siambr, unawdydd a phrif chwaraewr soddgrwth. Mae’n gyn Brif Chwaraewr Soddgrwth Cerddorfa Genedlaethol Gymreig y BBC. Mae ei pherfformiadau mewn gwyliau yn cynnwys cyfres siambr BBC Proms, Marlboro, Caerfaddon, Santa Fe (USA), AWE Seland Newydd a Lofoten. Mae ei pherfformiadau diweddar yn cynnwys Don Quixote gan Strauss a concerti gan Honegger a Cheryl Frances-Hoad.

Yn ddiweddar, ymunodd â’r London Haydn Quartet a bu’n aelod o’r Gould Piano Trio rhwng 2001 a 2018, gan recordio dros 25 CD gyda nhw, yn ogystal â rhoi’r perfformiad cyntaf o weithiau newydd gan Syr James MacMillan a Mark Simpson.

Mae ei recordiadau unawdol yn cynnwys concerti gan Tovey, Robin Stevens a Howells a sonatau gan Mendelssohn, Sterndale Bennett, Tovey, Pamela Harrison ac Ireland.

Mae hi wedi ymddangos fel chwaraewr soddgrwth gwadd gyda nifer o grwpiau, gan gynnwys y Nash Ensemble, Manchester Collective, Academy of St Martin’s Chamber Ensemble, Ensemble 360 a phedwarawdau Endellion, Elias, Sacconi, Maxwell a Heath. Mae hi’n cydweithio â’r pianyddion Viv McLean, Jâms Coleman a Benjamin Frith. Mae ei hymweliadau rheolaidd ag IMS yn Prussia Cove, Marlboro Festival USA a gŵyl Cerddoriaeth Siambr Dyffryn Gwy yn ysbrydoliaeth barhaus. Mae wedi ymddangos yn ddiweddar fel prif chwaraewr soddgrwth gwadd gyda Cherddorfa Ffilharmonig Oslo, Cerddorfa’r Tŷ Opera Brenhinol, Philharmonia, Hallé, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Cerddorfa Ffilharmonig y BBC a Cherddorfa Symffoni’r BBC.

Astudiodd gyda Ralph Kirshbaum yn y Royal Northern College of Music ac fel ysgolhaig Fulbright gyda Timothy Eddy yn Stony Brook, Unol Daleithiau America. Enillodd Wobr Pierre Fournier yn 1998, gan ymddangos am y tro cyntaf yn Neuadd Wigmore y flwyddyn ganlynol.

Yn y gorffennol, mae wedi dysgu’r soddgrwth yn RNCM a’r Coleg Cerdd Brenhinol ac mae bellach yn byw yn ei dinas enedigol, Caerdydd, lle mae’n gymrawd yng Ngholeg Brenhinol Cerdd a Drama Cymru. Fe wnaeth hi a’i gŵr David Adams sefydlu Gŵyl Cerddoriaeth Siambr Penarth yn 2014.

Mae Alice Neary yn chwarae soddgrwth gan Alessandro Gagliano o 1710.