The Jigsaw Players

The Jigsaw Players Chamber Music Series endeavors to bring musicians of the highest calibre to Wimbledon to create preformances of an international standard. Members include highly sought out soloist, competition winners, chamber musicians and members of London's finest orchestras (London Philharmonic, London Symphony and Philharmonia Orchestras).

The Jigsaw Players are reaching out to the community with their unique programming concepts including themes, two concerts for children, one given by children and one by enthusiastic amateurs in collaboration with the Jigsaw Players. 

VIOLIN                         VIOLA                          CELLO                    CLARINET        PIANO

Ellie Fagg                     Emmanuella Reiter         Oliver Coates           Chi-Yu Mo       Alasdair Beatson

Tom Norris                   Nicholas Bootiman         Andrew Joyce 

Cerys Jones                Gwendolyn Fisher        Rosalind Acton

Jonathan Stone           Nathan Selman

Victoria Mavromoustaki

Tadasuke Iijima

Ellie Fagg, violin

Ellie was a foundation scholar at the Royal College of Music under Yossi Zivoni, from where she graduated in 2005 with First Class Honours. 

As a soloist, Ellie has performed recitals in venues across the UK, most recently at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, and concertos with orchestras including the Amadeus Orchestra, Hertfordshire Philharmonic, JRAM Symphony Orchestra and the National Children’s Chamber Orchestra. 

Ellie is looking forward to many recitals in 2007/2008 across the UK with her award winning duo partner, Alasdair Beatson, due to being awarded a place on the  prestigious Countess of Munster Recital Scheme for their next season.

In 2001, Ellie was appointed leader of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, after having been a member for five years, and during her undergraduate at the RCM led many of the orchestras and ensembles.  She is now a very busy freelance violinist in London, playing with many of the major symphony and chamber orchestras including the LSO, LCO, LPO, European Camerata and the Philharmonia as well as guest leading smaller local orchestras.

Her musical life extends far and wide.  She is an active supporter of contemporary music, collaborating with composers such as Simon Speare and John Cameron and is the solo violinist of the vibrant and eclectic Avenue A ensemble who have just recorded their first album.

In 2005, Ellie won the ‘Emily English Scholarship’ awarded by the Musicians Benevolent Fund to the most outstanding violinist heard at audition.  She has just completed her postgraduate studies at the RCM, under Yossi Zivoni, as an Associated Board Scholar which included 5 months study under Helmut Zehetmeir at the Mozarteum, Salzburg.  This was all made possible with generous sponsorship from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and from the Philharmonia Martin Musical Award scheme.   

 
For more information about Ellie, please visit www.elliefagg.com 

 For more information about Tom please visit:    http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=41993798 

Emmanuella Reiter, viola

After lessons in violin and piano at the Conservatoire National de Région de Nice, France, Emmanuella entered the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, USA. In January 2001, discovering her passion for the viola, Ms Reiter entered the class of Kim Kashkashian at the New England Conservatory in Boston. There she received her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees, and served for three years as teaching assistant to Kim Kashkashian.

Emmanuella has participated in many festivals, has studied and played in masterclasses with Karen Tuttle, Yuri Bashmet, Jean Sulem, Nobuko Imai and Roberto Diaz. She has also performed with artists such as Ida Haendel, Peter Frankl and Vladimir Mendelssohn.

Emmanuella has frequently performed solo and chamber music in France, England, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, and the United States. As a concerto soloist she has performed with orchestras in England, Italy, France and the U.S.A. An experienced chamber musician, she has been a part of prize winning string quartets.

Miss Reiter has recorded with Arsis in the U.S.A., Hessischer Rundfunk in Germany and has appeared on Boston’s WGBH classical music radio. In 2005, Emmanuella recorded the duet for violin and viola by Zigmund Schul in the Dvořák Hall, Prague, as part of the Terezin Music Anthology.

Her passion for teaching has recently led her to writing a thesis: Karen Tuttle’s heritage: The Theory and Practice of Co-ordination, a technique developed by Karen Tuttle, a pupil and assistant of William Primrose, to help prevent and overcome playing-related injury as well as a way to express musical line, gesture and sonority while playing the viola.

Oliver Coates, cello