Martin Storey - Cello

British-born cellist Martin Storey has performed in many countries
around the world, and has been recognized as among the most talented
cellists of his generation to come from the United Kingdom. He is
currently cello professor at Park University in Parkville, Missouri. More...

During the past few years Mr. Storey has served as principal cellist
with the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra,
Philharmonia, BBC Symphony Orchestra, and Northern Sinfonia. For 14
years he was the cellist of the highly successful Gould Piano Trio
(based in London) which won three International Chamber Music
Competitions-the 1990 Charles Hennen Competition in Holland, the first
Melbourne International Competition in 1991, and the 1993 'Vitorio
Gui' Competition in Florence. The trio was nominated to represent
Britain in the 'Rising Stars' series which took the group to major
concert halls in Europe and America, including Carnegie Hall (New
York), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Palais-des-Beaux-Arts (Brussels),
Cite de la Musique (Paris), Symphony Hall (Birmingham), and venues in
Athens, Cologne and Vienna. Numerous festival appearances have
included Edinburgh, Cheltenham, City of London, Bath, Orebro (Sweden),
Spoleto (Italy) and the BBC Proms Chamber Series
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At the age of 18, he was awarded an Associated Board Scholarship to
attend the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he won all the
cello and chamber music prizes. He studied with Florence Hooton, David
Strange, the Amadeus Quartet, Andras Schiff and Menachem Pressler.
Storey was winner of the 1989 East-Anglian Trianon Competition, was a
finalist in the Shell/LSO Competition in 1990, and later that year
gave his recital debut at London's Purcell Room as winner of the
British Music Society Competition. He continued his studies at New
England Conservatory in Boston as a Fulbright Scholar, where his
teachers included Laurence Lesser, Colin Carr and Eric Rosenblith. He
has also worked with Lynn Harrell, Ralph Kirshbaum and Steven Isserlis.

Storey has broadcast chamber music many times on BBC Radio both in
live concerts and studio recordings, including a live EU broadcast to
the whole of Europe. He has played as part of the English Chamber
Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and has performed much
contemporary music as principal cellist of the London Sinfonietta. He
has recorded several CDs of chamber music for labels such as EMI, ASV
and Naxos and his recording of the Brahms cello sonatas was released
on the Oxford Classics label. He has given master classes at the Royal
Academy and Trinity College in London, and in South Korea, Taiwan,
Brazil and the Czech Republic.

Storey performs regularly in the U.S., Japan and England as a soloist,
and he is the cellist of Quartet Accorda, Park University's resident
string quartet.FL, Buffalo, NY, Corpus Christi and El Paso, TX and many others.