Price Band: C-D

Sarah Thurlow & Nigel Clayton:
Sarah Thurlow	- clarinet
Nigel Clayton	- piano

"...immaculately controlled, ...a beautifully phrased performance, ..riveted the audience's attention ...played with great panache"
Clarinet & Saxophone Society Magazine 1999

"Fielding three clarinets, Sarah Thurlow proved a wizard on each"
The Times 2000

"...mightily accomplished."
The Guardian 2000

"The dominating musical personality was Ms Thurlow ....With Clayton¹s assured support, she displayed miraculous breath control, keen rhythmic energy, and tone and phrasing ranging from seductive to passionate."
Portsmouth Evening News 2002

Sarah Thurlow and Nigel Clayton celebrate their tenth anniversary as a duo in January 2004. They have given recitals together throughout England, including performances at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall, St John’s Smith Square and several at London’s South Bank Centre.

Sarah Thurlow has appeared as Guest Principal Clarinet of the BBC Philharmonic, Manchester Camerata and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. She was a Scholar and Junior Fellow of the Royal College of Music in London, going on to study in the USA and Italy. She won the 1997 British Clarinet & Saxophone Society Young Musician Competition, and made her concerto debut with the Philharmonia in 1996.

One of the UK’s most sought after and popular pianists, Nigel Clayton performs more than eighty concerts every season, appearing in Great Britain and abroad, on the BBC’s radio network, and at London’s Wigmore Hall and South Bank Centre. He has recorded eleven commercial compact discs, and is a professor of piano at the Royal College of Music in London. For the last five years Nigel has been travelling regularly to teach at the North East of Scotland Music School in Aberdeen, where he is Head of Keyboard.

Specimen Programmes

Programme One

Programme Two