Rachel Podger (violin) and Brecon Baroque

Over the last two decades Rachel Podgerhas established herself as a leading interpreter of the Baroque and Classical music periods and has been described as “the queen of the baroque violin“ (Sunday Times). In October 2015 Rachel was the first woman to be awarded the prestigious Royal Academy of Music/Kohn Foundation Bach Prize. She was educated in Germany and in England at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she studied with David Takeno and Micaela Comberti.

Rachel is founder and artistic director of the Brecon Baroque Festival, an annual four-day event bringing top-flight period musicians to the Brecon Beacons. She is an honorary member of both the Royal Academy of Music, where she holds the Micaela Comberti Chair for Baroque Violin (founded in 2008), and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, where she holds the Jane Hodge Foundation International Chair in Baroque Violin.

For her Canterbury Music Club concert Rachel will play violin sonatas by Pisendel, Tartini, Veracini and Vivaldi.