Rachel Podger

別名：拉切爾·波杰

國籍：英國

出生地：英國英格蘭

生日：1968 年

職業(yè)：小提琴家

教育背景：市政廳音樂及戲劇學(xué)院

拉切爾·波杰（Rachel Podger）， 出生于英國，在德國的魯?shù)婪蛩固挂蛞魳穼W(xué)校習(xí)音樂，然后再回英國習(xí)小提琴，曾在Guildhall學(xué)校師事 Parry Hart，和多位大師習(xí)音樂，后來喜愛上古樂器與音樂，逐而參加古樂團，成為小提琴古樂家，她最喜愛拉奏十七世紀和十八世紀的古樂曲，在1997年她和古樂指揮家賓諾克合作過演出，她現(xiàn)在是樂壇頂尖的演奏家，受世界各地的邀請不斷。

從藝歷程：Podger was born to a British father and a German mother. She was educated at a German Rudolf Steiner school[1] then returned to study first with Perry Hart, then at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with David Takeno, Pauline Scott, and Micaela Comberti. During her studies, she co-founded Baroque chamber groups The Palladian Ensemble and Florilegium, and worked with period instrument ensembles such as the New London Consort and London Baroque.

Podger often conducts Baroque orchestras from the violin. She was the leader of the Gabrieli Consort and Players and later of The English Concert from 1997 to 2002, touring extensively, often as soloist in Vivaldi's Le quattro stagioni and Grosso mogul concertos. In 2004 she took up guest directorship of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, opening with a tour in the United States with Bach's Brandenburg Concertos. She also currently works as a guest director with Arte dei Suonatori (Poland), Musica Angelica and Santa Fe Pro Musica (both in the United States) and as soloist with The Academy of Ancient Music.

Podger is also a professor of Baroque violin at both the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and also teaches regularly at the Hochschule für Künste, Bremen. On September 2008, she took up the newly founded Micaela Comberti Chair for Baroque violin at the Royal Academy of Music in London and then became professor of Baroque violin at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen.

When not touring with various orchestras and other classical players, Podger works with her partner in Brecon, South Wales, helping young musicians through the Mozart Music Fund, which she founded in 2006, as well as holding workshops and giving recitals. In 2006 they also founded the annual Brecon Baroque Festival which is held over the penultimate weekend of October every year.