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the Fondazione Accademia
Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy
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Both Mönkemeyer and Steinbacher are looking forward to
drawing on the knowledge they hope to have accrued by their
later years in order to do more teaching and less performing.
And Little is extremely excited about the opportunities that
GIURANNA PHOTO FONDAZIONE ACCADEMIA MUSICALE CHIGIANA. QUARTET PHOTO MONICA GEORGIADIS
‘retirement’ will bring. ‘At the moment I rarely have an
opportunity to go to the theatre or cinema, or to exhibitions –
things that interest me hugely,’ she says. ‘I’d like to do a cookery
course, to learn about gardening, to try my hand at some
pottery, to brush up my French, Italian, Spanish and German,
and maybe to learn another language. I would also like to give
back to my local community.’ She will continue to give '38+-!&-9T '8#'8;T '£'@ !2& $3ħ
masterclasses at the Royal Academy of Music in London, rehearse for a performance in Quartet
broadcast for radio and write; and she has recently accepted the
role of co-president of the Yehudi Menuhin School, alongside
Daniel Barenboim. e equally energetic Nwanoku has last issue), and even played the role of a violinist character
resolved to keep playing, but says that if at some point she in Quartet, when he mingled among stars including Maggie
becomes unable to carry her double bass on to the stage, she Smith, Michael Gambon, Billy Connolly, Tom Courtenay and
will then continue her work as artistic director of the Chineke! Pauline Collins. ‘I was technically retired,’ he says, ‘so I had to
Foundation, alongside her activities as a broadcaster, public get the violin out of the case, scrape the rust o the strings and
speaker and much else besides. put in some solid hours of limbering up. If they were going to
Georgiadis’s retirement, too, shows more than anything do a sequel, I’d go out of my way to get out of retirement again
that age and change can bring with them countless new – it was one of the great experiences of my life.’ Even those who
opportunities. Over the past decade he has conducted decide to ‘retire’, then, may nd themselves not at the end, but
orchestras, written a novel and an autobiography (reviewed rather being catapulted into a whole new beginning.
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