June 27th, 7.30pm, St Mary's Church, Maldon

Concert sponsored by The Courtyard Clinic

Jamie Walton is a rising international soloist with a distinctive voice of his own and is now being compared by critics to some of the great cellists of the past. He has appeared throughout much of Europe, the USA and the UK in some of the world’s most prestigious concert halls and festivals. With a distinctive sound and a pure approach to music making, he is fast becoming recognised as a         supreme interpreter of the classics.

Jamie and his pianist Daniel Grimwood appear regularly at Wigmore Hall and Symphony Hall, Birmingham where their debut was a recital of Chopin for the Chopin festival, sharing the evening with Krystian Zimerman. These led to concertos there with the English Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera. The duo have also appeared in recital at the Bridgewater Hall, Fairfield Hall, Cadogan Hall and St John's Smith Square regularly as well as being invited by Maestro Lorin Maazel to give a recital for his Chateauville Foundation, Virginia.

His CDs have regularly been selected into The Telegraph Top 10 of the year and CD of the Week, his recording of the Saint-Saëns concertos (Philharmonia/Alexander Briger) went on to receive ecstatic reviews. Developing a strong rapport in both performance and recording with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Alexander Briger they embarked upon a further trilogy of recordings with Signum Classics to couple great English and Russian concertos together.  The first two (Elgar/Myaskovsky; Britten/Shostakovich 2) were released to unanimous international acclaim, comparing him to Rostropovich (International Record Review) who famously championed this repertoire.  The final part of the trilogy (Walton/Shostakovich 1) is to be recorded for a 2010 release.  

Jamie plays on a 1712 Guarneri.