This recording came about as an exploration of what it means to be an "outsider-on the margins". Most of the composers on this disc either experienced this or helped others who had. This resonated with my own lived experience of being an "outsider" when I was forced to leave Vienna where I lived. This CD will form the basis of a tour supported by Arts Council England, HMUK, the Vaughan Williams Foundation and the Golsoncott Foundation. Welsh violinist, Sian Philipps made her debut as soloist with the Philharmonia Orchestra in 2004 and was subsequently invited to perform at Bridgewater Hall, Manchester and Symphony Hall Birmingham. She has since appeared as soloist with orchestras such as the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and London Mozart Players with conductors including llan Volkov, Jose Cura, and Andre de Ridder. She has performed at all of the major London recital halls including the South Bank Centre and Wigmore Hall, of which a critic wrote: "This was a quality of violin sound as beautiful as it comes" and at the International Schubert Tage and Brahmsaal, Musikverein in Vienna. She studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School, where she was jointly awarded the first Brackenbury Prize for creativity, taking part in masterclasses with Lord Menuhin, Felix Andrievsky and Sidney Griller.
