#65 - Interview with British Violist Annette Isserlis

My guest on the 65th episode of "Dress Rehearsal" is British Violist, Educator and Record Producer, Annette Isserlis, who is a founder member of Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s English Baroque Soloists and the Orchestra Revolutionnaire et Romantique as well as a member of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, The London Classical Players and Andrew Parrot’s Taverner Players, where she became principal viola. She was also a founding member of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in 1986, and appeared several times as guest-principal viola in John Butt’s Dunedin Consort and in 2014 became a permanent member of Sir Andras Schiff’s ensemble, the Cappella Andrea Barca. With all of these groups she has toured, recorded and broadcast worldwide. As a chamber-musician she has performed extensively in the UK, and she is a regular attendee at IMS Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music. As a recording-producer she has worked with Steven Isserlis, Sir Roger Norrington, Catherine Mackintosh, Lisa Beznosiuk, Maggie Cole, Philippa Davies, Adrian Butterfield, Melvyn Tan and Sam Hayward. The interview is divided into two parts, the first will air on Friday March 17th at 8am PST and the second part on Sunday March 19th at 5pm PST, in which we talk extensively about Annette's career and her involvement in early music groups up until close collaborations with Sir Andras Schiff. Don't miss it!