Colin Lawson
Biography
Colin Lawson has an international profile as a period clarinettist and has played principal in most of Britain's leading period orchestras, notably The Hanover Band, The English Concert and the London Classical Players, with whom he has recorded extensively and toured world-wide. Described recently as 'a brilliant, absolutely world-class player' (Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung) and 'the doyen of period clarinettists' (BBC Music Magazine), he has appeared as soloist in many international venues, including London's major concert halls and New York's Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall.
Colin's discography comprises concertos by Fasch, Hook, Mahon, Mozart, Spohr, Telemann, Vivaldi and Weber, as well as a considerable variety of chamber music. His most recent recording is a highly acclaimed disc of basset horn trios by Mozart and Stadler, for ASV.
Colin has published widely, especially for Cambridge University Press. He is editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Clarinet and author of Cambridge Handbooks to Mozart's Clarinet Concerto and Brahms's Clarinet Quintet. He is co-editor of a new series of Cambridge Handbooks to the historical performance of music, for which he has co-authored an introductory volume (1999) and a book on the early clarinet (2000). Colin is also editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra (2002). Combining an academic career with performing activities, he taught at the universities of Aberdeen, Sheffield and London before his appointment in 2001 as pro-vice chancellor at Thames Valley University.