Neil Thomson He has performed with Sir James Galway, Dame Moura Lympany, Sir Thomas Allen, Dame Felicity Lott, Philip Langridge, Sarah Chang, Antonio Meneses, Steven Isserlis, Julian Lloyd Webber, David Geringas, Natalie Clein, Ittai Shapira, Gyorgy Pauk, Brett Dean, Jean-Philippe Collard, Stephen Hough, Peter Jablonski, Jean-Louis Steuerman, Dame Evelyn Glennie and Sir Richard Rodney Bennett. Recent collaborations include a Schumann Cello Concerto with Steven Isserlis, an opera gala with Danielle de Niese, a tour in Brazil with Antonio Meneses, Liszt Second Piano Concerto and Brahms Second Piano Concerto with Stephen Hough, the premiere of Joseph Phibbs’s new Percussion Concerto with Dame Evelyn
Ann Rachlin Rachlin now lives near Winchelsea in East Sussex where she is still active in theatrical and musical circles. In the early 1970s Ann founded The Beethoven Fund for Deaf Children (now incorporated with The Elizabeth Foundation for Deaf Children). She is President of both charities. The Beethoven Fund was supported by members of the Royal Family and many famous musicians including Lorin Maazel, Sir Georg Solti, André Previn, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Mitsuko Uchida, Yehudi Menuhin as well as Sir Peter Ustinov and Sir Alec Guinness amongst others. Ann and Ezra Rachlin were instrumental in helping Dame Evelyn Glennie in the early