Ashok Klouda

Ashok Klouda LRAM, BMus, PGDip Adv, Konzertdiplom

Cellist Ashok Klouda has performed all over the world and currently leads a varied career combining solo performances and teaching with a variety of chamber music. Ashok made his solo Wigmore Hall debut in 2010 as a result of winning the Worshipful Company of Musicians/Concordia Foundation Young Artists Fund award and has won many other awards and prizes, including 1^st prize in the 2006 J. & A. Beare Solo Bach Competition and the 2007 Royal College of Music Cello Competition. Ashok was also selected for the Tunnell Trust concert scheme with pianist Joseph Middleton, which resulted in a tour of Scotland last season and has recently been appointed as a member of the Advisory Board for the London Cello Society.

This season includes London appearances at Conway Hall, Kings Place and the Wigmore Hall and a return tour of Slovenia with duo partner classical accordionist Borut Zagoranski. Ashok also performs in the Callaghan Piano Trio alongside violinist Giovanni Guzzo and pianist Simon Callaghan, ‘KlouDuo’ – a violin/cello duo with his wife Natalie Klouda, and  ‘Cellophony’ - an ensemble of eight cellists who recently made their Wigmore debut through the Park Lane Group Young Artists scheme.

Chamber music has been a hugely important part of Ashok's career, having been a member of two of the country's finest young string quartets. Whilst cellist in the Barbirolli Quartet, Ashok toured to Singapore, New Zealand and Australia sponsored by Pettman/Royal Over-Seas League and also performed in 13 of Europe’s finest concert halls as part of the ECHO ‘Rising Stars’ scheme. Ashok’s previous quartet experience as a founding member of the Artea Quartet included a BBC Proms debut in 2004, recitals in the Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room and live performances on BBC Radio 3. The Artea Quartet also won the Philharmonia Orchestra/Martin Musical Scholarship Fund Total Ensemble Award and the Tillett Trust Young Artists’ Platform.

Ashok has studied under some of the world’s finest  teachers such as Colin Carr, Josephine Knight, Jérôme Pernoo and Louise Hopkins at the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal  College of Music and the Hochschule der Künste Bern. He has since been a Chamber Music Fellow at the Guildhall School of Music and twice a Leverhulme Chamber Music Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music. Ashok has been invited to return to the Royal Academy of Music in 2012 to teach a Performance Class for Undergraduate students.

Ashok’s early musical education was at the Junior Guildhall School of Music & Drama where he studied with Margaret Powell and won 1^st prize in the school’s only annual competition: the ‘Lutine Prize’. He made his debut as a soloist with orchestra at the age of thirteen and has since performed numerous concertos with orchestras around the country.

Ashok recently benefitted from the kind loan of the 1692 ‘Segelman’ Stradivarius cello, from the Royal Academy of Music. 

www.londoncelloteacher.co.uk

www.cellophony.net

Visit www.plushmusic.tv to download live video performances of Ashok in the Barbirolli Quartet

You can also see Ashok performing Bach on YouTube

For a copy of my formal performance CV, please download the file below. For further information on my teaching work and a copy of my teaching CV, please contact me using the form on this website.

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