THE LARK ASCENDING: Vaughan Williams with AKI BLENDIS @JAMontheMarsh

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The Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams
12 July 2024 at the JAM on the Marsh Festival

Aki Blendis · violin
JAM Festival Orchestra
with the London Mozart Players
Ruth Rogers · leader
Michael Bawtree · conductor

ABOUT AKI BLENDIS:
Aki Blendis, now aged 16, started learning the violin aged 4 with Elisabeth Waterhouse at Lauderdale Suzuki. He was a pupil of Felicity Lipman for six years, then studied with Ivo Stankov at the Junior Guildhall, and now has lessons with Laura Capano.

Aki was a string finalist in the 2022 BBC Young Musician, and was winner of the Walter Todds Memorial Bursary, since when he has been invited to perform in a number of recitals and concertos, including the Barber violin concerto with the Isle of Wight Symphony Orchestra and the North London Symphony Orchestra. He made his debut as a soloist with the London Mozart Players last summer in a sold-out concert at the St. Jude’s Proms, and appeared as a soloist again with them last autumn. Aki is a member of the National Youth Orchestra and is also an enthusiastic chamber musician, playing both violin and viola at Beare’s Chamber Music. Away from the violin, he is a keen sportsman, representing his school at both football and athletics.

Aki plays a fine violin by Andrea Postacchini kindly loaned to him by a generous sponsor through the Beare’s International Violin Society.

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