Kate Gould is one of the outstanding chamber musicians of her generation. In addition to her membership of the London Bridge Ensemble, she is a founder member of the Leopold String Trio and spends the rest of her concert life playing in a variety of other ensembles and giving duo recitals. In 1997 she was a winner of the Tillett Trust Young Artists Platform and the BBC Radio 3 Young Artists’ Forum. She joined the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in 2000. Kate is a regular guest of the Nash and Endymion Ensembles and plays as guest principal cellist of the English Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
The Leopold String Trio recently won the Chamber Music category at the Royal Philharmonic Society Awards and in 2004 was the winner of a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award, set up by Mitsuko Uchida to assist established young ensembles and soloists. In 2001, the Trio represented Wigmore Hall at major international concert halls in the ECHO Rising Stars series and in the same year was selected for the inaugural BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme. The Trio records for Hyperion and all of their discs have received immense critical acclaim.
“I doubt we will ever hear better recorded performances of the three piano quartets than we have here...Kate Gould's cello in the moving slow movements of Nos 2 and 3 is breathtakingly beautiful...” Classic FM Magazine, Brahms’ Piano Quartets, Hyperion Records
