Kate Gould has
an exciting and varied international performing career. During her
studies at the Royal Academy of Music she formed the Leopold String
Trio, which rocketed to fame through the numerous prizes and awards
it achieved, including Young Concert Artists Trust, ECHO Rising
Stars, Royal Philharmonic Award, BBC New Generations Artists and a
Borletti-Buitoni Trust award. They performed at venues such as
Carnegie Hall, Concertgebouw, Musikverein, Barbican Centre and
Wigmore Hall. Each disc they recorded for Hyperion Records was met
with the deepest praise from national press and the major music
magazines. The trio often collaborated with exceptional pianists
such as Paul Lewis and Marc Andre Hamelin, with whom they also made
recordings for Hyperion.
Kate is now thrilled to be focusing on the
piano trio repertoire with her present group, the London Bridge
Trio, with violinist David Adams and pianist Daniel Tong. She set
up the flourishing Winchester Chamber Music Festival for the group,
which celebrated its tenth year in April by commissioning a new
trio by Colin Matthews. She also established the Ironstone Chamber
Music Festival with her sister, violinist Lucy Gould, which takes
place in September in the distinctive ironstone villages of north
Oxfordshire. She is a regular guest at the some other special
festivals around the world, such as Festival de los Siete Lagos in
north Patagonia, Argentina, Sunnmore Chamber Music Festival,
Norway, Peasmarsh Chamber Music Festival, Wye Valley Chamber Music
Festival and Penarth Pier Chamber Music Festival.
Since 2000, Kate has been a member of the
Chamber Orchestra of Europe. She is invited as guest principal
cellist of many orchestras in the UK, most frequently Royal
Northern Sinfonia, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC National
Orchestra of Wales and Scottish Chamber Orchestra.