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Poppy Walshaw (Violoncello)

Poppy Walshaw was a Continuo Scholar at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where she studied with Alison McGillivray and Louise Hopkins. She read Music and Natural Sciences at Cambridge University and then studied with Alexander Baillie at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen, gaining her postgraduate diploma with the highest possible mark.

Poppy recently performed as a soloist with La Serenissima at the Spitalfields, Canterbury and Beverley festivals; this was recorded live for broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s Early Music Show. She has toured and recorded with the Gabrieli Consort and Players, and was the cello coach for their education project with Chetham's School of Music. She has also worked with the Early Opera Company (recently recording Semele), St James’ Baroque, and is a member of Al Ayre Español. She performed with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Rattle, Mackerras and Brüggen during and subsequent to her time as an OAE/Jerwood Experience participant, and was principal of the Orchestra Giovanile dell'Academia Montis Regalis.

2007 CD Arias by J.S. Bach and G.F. Handel for counter and orchestra together with rediscovered concertos and doubleconcertos for flute, oboe and violin by Quantz, Fasch, Telemann. Soloists: Maarten Engeltjes counter, Hajo Wienroth traversflute, Mark Baigent oboe and Simon Standage violin.

With this CD production: live recording by NDR of a concert at the International Musikfest in Seelze broadcasted on 6. Juli 2007.

2008 CD with quartets by J.B. Viotti, together with Hajo Wienroth (keyed flute), Simon Standage (violin), Huw Daniel (viola) and Poppy Walshaw (cello).

April 2009 CD Haydn Trios and Divertimenti, Hajo Wienroth orig. keyed flute arround 1810, Simon Standage violin, Poppy Walshaw cello.