Martin Storey - Cello

British-born cellist Martin Storey has performed in many countries around the world, and has been recognized as among the most talented cellists of his generation to come from the UK. During the past few years he has served as principal cellist with the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia, BBC Symphony Orchestra, and Northern Sinfonia. For fourteen years he was the cellist of the highly successful Gould Piano Trio (based in London) which won three International Chamber Music Competitions - the 1990 Charles Hennen Competition in Holland, the first Melbourne International Competition in 1991, and the 1993 ‘Vitorio Gui’ Competition in Florence. The trio was nominated to represent Britain in the ‘Rising Stars’ series which took the group to major concert halls in Europe and America, including Carnegie Hall (New York), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Palais-des-Beaux-Arts (Brussels), Cite de la Musique (Paris), Symphony Hall (Birmingham), and venues in Athens, Cologne and Vienna. Numerous festival appearances have included Edinburgh, Cheltenham, City of London, Bath, Orebro (Sweden), Spoleto (Italy) and the BBC Proms Chamber Series.

Martin was born in Norwich, England. At the age of eighteen he was awarded an Associated Board Scholarship to attend the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he won all the cello and chamber music prizes. At the Royal Academy he studied with Florence Hooton, David Strange, the Amadeus Quartet, Andras Schiff and Menachem Pressler. Martin was winner of the 1989 East-Anglian Trianon Competition, was a finalist in the Shell/LSO Competition in 1990, and later that year gave his recital debut at London’s Purcell Room as winner of the British Music Society Competition. He continued his studies at New England Conservatory in Boston as a Fulbright Scholar, where his teachers included Laurence Lesser, Colin Carr and Eric Rosenblith. He has also worked with Lynn Harrell, Ralph Kirshbaum and Steven Isserlis.

Martin has broadcast chamber music many times on BBC Radio both in live concerts and studio recordings, including a live EU broadcast to the whole of Europe. He has played as part of the English Chamber Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and has performed much contemporary music as principal cellist of the London Sinfonietta. He has recorded several CDs of chamber music for labels such as EMI, ASV and Naxos and his recording of the Brahms cello sonatas was released on the Oxford Classics label. He has given masterclasses at the Royal Academy and Trinity College in London, and in South Korea, Taiwan, Brazil and the Czech Republic.
Martin performs regularly in Japan and England as a soloist, and he is the cellist of ‘Quartet Accorda’ – Kansas City’s resident string quartet.