ABOUT
WORLDWIDE ARTISTS about us
Established in 2009, Worldwide Artists represents a select roster of international concert and recording artists. Worldwide Artists is headed by Director and cellist,
Alasdair Strange. Alasdair's first-hand experience as a professional performer enables exceptional synergy between artists and company.
Worldwide Artists represents such acclaimed artists as Marianne Thorsen, Martin Owen, Viv McLean, Rui Pinheiro, and the London Ensemble; and will be announcing several exciting additions to the roster over the coming months and strengthening further our relationships with international promoters, orchestras and venues worldwide.
Worldwide Artists provides expert consulting services to classical music festivals and organisations. WA is the music contractor for the London Soundtrack Orchestra; and is a leading name in international private and corporate event music management and special project development.
ALASDAIR STRANGE,
DIRECTOR
WORLDWIDE ARTISTS
Alasdair Strange was the marvellous cellist. THE TIMES The exacting half-tones of its difficult solo part was caught skilfully by Strange (Ligeti Concerto). THE SUNDAY TIMES
The British artist brilliantly rendered the imaginative and vivacious style of this Czech composer (Martinu at Kulturkreis Springe festival, Hannover).NORD-DEUTSCHLAND ZEITING
The solo of the night came from Alasdair Strange, in the Cello Concerto No 2 by Penderecki. I suspect he [Penderecki] will turn out to be one of contemporary music's survivors - especially if cellists carry on playing him with Strange's concentration and flair.THE INDEPENDENT
Strange took a dominant role in his exchanges with the orchestra (Penderecki Concerto No. 2 at the Barbican, London).THE GUARDIAN
WORLDWIDE ARTISTS
Director, Alasdair Strange, studied the cello at the Royal Academy of Music, London, with Derek Simpson. On completion of his studies in 1996, Alasdair was awarded the DipRAM, the Academy's highest award for performance, as well as the prestigious Carnegie Fellowship.
Alasdair has considerable experience as a performer including Penderecki's Cello Concerto No. 2 at the Barbican Hall London to great critical acclaim (broadcast live on BBC Radio 3); Ligeti's Cello Concerto at the Ligeti Festival, London in the presence of the composer, the Brahms Double Concerto at the Barbican; and recitals at the Kulturkreis Springe
festival, Hannover, the Southwark Festival, Wigmore Hall, and the Purcell Room on London's South Bank. Ali currently performs as cellist in the McLean-Thorsen-Strange Piano Trio alongside the Norwegian violinist, Marianne Thorsen and British pianist, Viv McLean.
Alasdair Strange is Founder and Artistic Director of the London Ensemble and formerly Artistic Consultant and concert artist at Vinterfestspill i Bergstaden
2009 - 2013 in Røros, Norway, with performances broadcast on NRK, Norway's national television and radio.
As well as managing some of WA's artists, Alasdair heads WA Music Production, and he has composed and produced scores/soundtracks for television and film for clients including FCB Paris, Saatchi & Saatchi, BBC, Lowe, Grey, Channel 4, Gangway Films, the Discovery Channel and the National Geographic Channel.
In 2009, Worldwide Artists' session orchestra, the London Soundtrack Orchestra performed at the world premiere cinema projection of Hitchcock's Psycho
with Bernard Herrmann's score being performed in 'real-time' as a live orchestral soundtrack, launching SKY Movies' season of Hitchcock films presented in High Definition for the first time.
As an orchestral musician, Alasdair has worked under such eminent conductors as Haitink, Giulini, Ashkenazy and Sir Colin Davis at concert halls including the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Berlin's Philharmonie, the Royal Albert Hall and the Royal Festival Hall in London, Symphony Hall Birmingham; and at the Edinburgh, Salzburg and Vienna International Festivals.
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