Hyperion Records

Lawrence Power is one of the foremost violists of today. After winning prizes at many international competitions, including the Maurice Vieux Viola Competition in Paris and The William Primrose International Viola Competition, Canada, he was selected for the BBC New Generation Artists scheme which led to numerous broadcasts in recital and as a soloist. In 2011 he was shortlisted for the Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist Award.

Lawrence is highly sought after in the UK and abroad. He has performed Rózsa’s Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and Bartók’s Concerto with the Real Filharmonía de Galicia in Santiago, the Bergen Philharmonic, and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. He has also performed with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Warsaw Philharmonic, the Melbourne Symphony, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra (at Tanglewood Music Festival). He is much in demand as a chamber musician, with The Nash Ensemble and the Leopold String Trio, and is a frequent guest at music festivals internationally and in the UK. His Hyperion recordings of Brahms, Bowen and Hindemith, as well as many concertos, have been widely praised.

Lawrence Power plays a rare viola by the Bolognese maker Antonio Brensi from c1610 and has been appointed International Professor of Viola at the Zurich Hochschule der Künste.