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JACQUELINE COLE was born in Warwickshire in 1958 and ten years later became a pupil at the Yehudi Menuhin School where she studied with Marcel Gazelle, Yaltah Menuhin, Marcel Ciampi and Barbara Kerslake and participated in master classes given by Nadia Boulanger and Vlado Perlemuter.
Between 1970 and 1975 she toured with the Menuhin School as a soloist as well as an accompanist in the U.K., Holland, Switzerland and the United States. In 1978 she obtained the Associate of Guildhall School of Music Performer's Diploma while studying with James Gibb and also received a grant from the Worshipful Company of Musicians, which enabled her to stay for an extra year at the Guildhall studying piano with Norman Beedie and composition with Patrick Standford. In 1981 she obtained a Diploma in Music Therapy from the Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy Centre, and in 1983, an interest free loan from the Countess of Munster Trust enabled her to purchase a piano.
In 1986 the French Government awarded Jacqueline a bursary and she also received a Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Foundation Scholarship for the special project of working on Olivier Messiaen's piano repertoire with Yvonne Loriod Messiaen in Paris, between 1986-1987. In 1987 she entered the Conservatoire at St. Maur-des-Fosses to learn the technique of the Ondes Martenot with Jeonne Loriod.
She was then awarded a special bursary to go to the Centre Acanthes at Villeneuve les Avignon and selected as an active participant in Olivier Messiaen's analysis class. Also studying piano with Madame Loriod, Roger Muraro, Pierre Laurent-Aimard and the Ondes Martenot with Jeanne Loriod. She was one of four pianists chosen to perform in the final concert in the presence of the composer Olivier Messiaen.
"Thank you Jacqueline Cole for your most poetic interpretation of
'Alouette Luiu'. With all my very friendly congratulations.
Olivier Messiaen, July 1987
"Hopes and thoughts................
Nadia Boulanger, May 1972
"Jacqueline Cole is a very talented pianist who possesses on
excellent technique and cultivated musicianship."
Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen, May 1987
ORCHESTRAL EXPERIENCE
REHEARSAL PIANIST
ACCOMPANIST SINGERS/INSTRUMENTALISTS
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
COCKTAIL PIANO/HOTEL/CRUISE
PRESS REVIEWS
Jewish Chronicle October 4, 2002
KEY MOMENT Malcolm Miller on the Composers of Terezin.
St John's Smith Square, Wednesday September 25, 2002 Jacqueline Cole
The genius of two Terezin composers, Pavel Haas and Viktor Ullmann, was celebrated last week at a stirring recital by British pianist Jacqueline Cole. The centrepiece was the UK premier of Haas's Suite Opus. 13 (1935), a five-movement work which was premiered in 1936 by Bernard Kaff, a Czech virtuoso and one of the Terezin musicians. Cole projected the three fast movements with energy, especially the jazzy 'Danza', while the two slow movements were imbued with poetic intensity. The climax of the concert was Cole's powerful account of the exciting five-movement Sonata No. 7 by Viktor Ullmann, the final work of this best known of the Terezin composers. Completed just weeks before his deportation to Auschwitz, the sonata concludes with a moving affirmation of Ullmann's Jewish heritage, a powerful set of variations on the pioneer Hebrew folksong 'Rachel'. Throughout, Cole, a former student of Yvonne Loriod and Yalta Menuhin, who recently founded the Viktor Ullmann Foundation, successfully brought alive the orchestral colours of the work.
PRESS RELEASE
LAZA KOSTIC FUND
The premiere of a work commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Consecration of the Church of St Sava in London
On 25th September, the eve of the visit of His Holiness Patriarch Pavle, Jacqueline Cole played Svetislav Bozic's Byzantine Mosaic at St John's Smith Square.
In connection with the coming celebration in London, the Laza Kostic Fund asked the eminent Serbian Composer, Svetislav Bozic, to write a work for the esteemed English pianist, Jacqueline Cole.
A former pupil at the Menhuin School and continuing her studies under Vlado Perlemuter, Jalta Menhuin and Nadia Boulanger, she played the premiere of Svetislav Bozic's Byzantine Mosaic. This concert officially marked the celebrations by St Sava's Church in London.
Composed in 2001, Byzantine Mosaic is dedicated to 'the 50th anniversary of the consecration of the Orthodox Church of St Sava in London, its rector, clergy, church committee and parishioners, and to the peace and wellbeing of their homeland, over which the protection of Bishop Nikolai Velimirovic has long hovered. On the day of St John the Baptist, Svetislav D. Bozic É' (unfinished sentence in original).
The sections of the piece bear the names of nine monasteries: Kalenic, Gracanica, The Ljevisha Mother of God, Sopocani, Hilandar, Panteleimon, Zica, Studenica an Gornjak, and reflect, like tonal icons, the daily life and the Offices in an Orthodox monastery.
The audience at the concert had, along with the musical 'icons', the opportunity to see reproductions of icons from Sopocani and also, through the concert programme, to gain a better knowledge of the historical and spiritual significance of these monasteries from notes by Mother Maria (Rule).
The Laza Kostic Fund, that gave financial help for the concert, did this in an echo of the words of its founder, Marina Milic-Apostolovic: 'as a mark of support an gratitude to the pianist for her interest an efforts to make Serbian culture known in the world. This is not the first concert at which the artist has presented works by Serbian composers. Her future concerts in Oxford, London, Tel Aviv an other places will also contain works by Svetislav Bozic an Mokranjac, which reveals a real inclination towards Serbian culture and art that is to us, to whom it is natural, a joy to see and support.'
