As a recitalist and chamber musician, Jennifer Pike has collaborated throughout Europe with artists including Anne-Sophie Mutter, Nikolaj Znaider, Adrian Brendel, Nicolas Altstaedt, Maxim Rysanov, Ben Johnson, Igor Levit, Martin Roscoe, Tom Poster and Mahan Esfahani. In 2016 her series of recitals at LSO St Luke’s were broadcast on BBC Radio 3. She appears regularly at the Wigmore Hall and in 2017 curated and performed three recitals in one-day celebrating Polish music, including specially commissioned work. An enthusiastic Promoter of new music, she has had many works written for her, including Haflidi Hallgrimsson’s Violin Concerto, which she premiered with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Charlotte Bray’s Scenes from Wonderland with the London Philharmonie Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall and Andrew Schultz’s Violin Concerto and Sonatina for solo violin. Her prolific and widely-acclaimed discography on Chandos, Sony and ABC Classics includes the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the Bergen Philharmonie and Sir Andrew Davis, Miklds Rozsa Violin Concerto with the BBC Philharmonie and Rumon Gamba, Bach with Sinfonietta Cracovia and Schultz with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. She recently recorded the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the City of Birmingham Symphony and Edward Gardner for Chandos, which was acclaimed in the Observer for her “innate musicality and mercurial technique” and as “breathtakingly beautiful” by the Sunday Herald. Future plans include concerts with the Rheinische Philharmonie, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra under Mark Wigglesworth, Dresden Philharmonie under Michael Sanderling, Zurich Chamber Orchestra and Czech National Symphony. She was recently invited to become an ambassador for the Prince’s Trust and Foundation for Children and the Arts, together with being patron of the Lord Mayor’s City Music Foundation. Jennifer Pike plays a 1708 violin by Matteo Goffriller Michael Sanderling Principal Conductor Michael Sanderling, one of the most distinguished conductors of ourtime, has been the principal conductor of the Dresden Philharmonie since 2011. The high point of the season was, when in April 2017 the Dresden Philharmonie moved into the newly renovated concert hall atthe Kulturpalast. The inaugural performance marking the re-opening of the venue was conducted by Michael Sanderling and featured songs of Franz Schubert (soloist Matthias Goerne), Julia Fischer performing as soloist in the Johannes Brahms Violin Concerto, and the iconic finale, “Ode to Joy,” from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
