Introduction:
Dorothy Linell gave her London recital debut in 1985 at the South Bank Centre's Purcell Room as a winner of a national Young Artists' competition. Since then, she has played instruments ranging from Baroque guitar to Banjo in venues from Moscow to Memphis.
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About Dorothy...
Dorothy Linell gave her London recital debut in 1985 at the South Bank Centre's Purcell Room as a winner of a national Young Artists' competition. Since then, she has played instruments ranging from Baroque guitar to Banjo in venues from Moscow to Memphis.
Recordings and performances for international festivals, major concert halls and the Opera theatre include work with James Bowman, Charles Brett, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Deller Consort, English National Opera, Glyndebourne Opera, Kathleen Battle, Arleen Auger and Sir Simon Rattle with the renowned City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. She played for Violinist Nigel Kennedy and the English Chamber Orchestra in Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons' for TV and video and on several subsequent tours, including performances for Diana, Princess of Wales and other members of the British Royal Family at St. James's Palace, London.
Broadcasts include portraying the lute-playing Mary Queen of Scots for a BBC TV documentary, incidental music for Channel 4's two major series on Queen Elizabeth 1st and King Henry 8th, and even performing in a sewer for the 'Candid Camera' spin-off show 'Game For A Laugh'.
Recent work has taken her to Scandinavia (including a broadcast at Hamlet's Kronborg Castle), Spain, Poland and Central America. Dorothy has performed on transatlantic crossings aboard the Cunard flagship QE2, and other work on cruise ships (for Fred Olsen and Page & Moy) includes The Caribbean, The North Cape, The Baltic States and The Canary Islands.
Dorothy has been described to have "A poetic quality" - Julian Bream