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Gaby Whyte-Hart
With a career spanning more than 15 years, Gaby started in film at the age of 17. She attended the New York Film academy at Kings University in London, where she received her master’s in producing for the screen. Gaby subsequently went on to produce and direct several short films, which performed successfully at various film festivals globally, gathering 4 nominations and 1 win. She produced and cast her first feature film Dead End in 2011, which was nominated at the Washington DC film festival, and won best UK Feature Film at the International TV and Screen awards in London. This led to Gaby’s move to Los Angeles, where in 2019 she produced and cast the Feature film Becoming, starring Toby Kebbel, Jason Patric and Penelope Mitchell. Becoming was listed in the top 20 horror films to watch in 2020 by Thrillist, and is currently available to watch on Amazon. Gaby currently has many films in production and is developing several more, including one based on the life of literary icon James Joyce. She has an extensive list of contacts both in the UK and the USA. Gaby has an especially robust background in development and producing independent films. Gaby also runs Filmtrax Casting and works with talent such as Harvey Keitel, Harry Melling, Maggie Q, Lenny Kravitz, Toby Kebbel, and Nicholas Cage to name a few. Gaby’s latest film that she has cast is DIRTY ANGELS being directed by Martin Campbell (Casino Royale, Goldeneye) which is shooting currently in Greece. Gaby has cast stars such as Ruby Rose, Eva Green, Maria Bakalova, and several actors from Netlfix’s hit show Fauda. Such as Rona Lee Shim’on and George Iskandar. Throughout her years of casting, she has gained wonderful relationship’s with the top agencies in the world, such as: CAA, Independent, WME, Gersh, Hamilton & Hoddell, Curtis Brown, APA and UTA.
Norma Fisher
Norma Fisher is acclaimed internationally as one of the UK’s leading pianists and Teachers. As a child she was recognised as ‘a rare musical talent’ winning an exhibition, at the age of eleven, to study with Sidney Harrison at the Guildhall School of Music. At the age of fourteen she came to the attention of the celebrated Greek pianist Gina Bachauer who became her mentor, introducing her to the distinguished Hungarian teacher Ilona Kabos, with whom she subsequently studied. A period was also spent in Paris studying French music with Jacques Fevrier.
Her many, highly acclaimed, early performances for the BBC led to an invitation by the German radio station RIAS, in Berlin, to make her debut with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra - which launched her career in Europe. Success in the Busoni International Piano Competition, as a top prizewinner, followed and in 1963, when she shared the much-coveted Piano Prize in the Harriet Cohen International Music Awards with Vladimir Ashkenazy, her international reputation was sealed.
That same year she made her debut at the Proms in the Royal Albert Hall and became a favourite soloist with leading British orchestras including the LPO, LSO, Philharmonia, RPO, BBC Symphony, Hallé, Bournemouth, and the CBSO..
Norma Fisher is known for her versatility as a performer. This versatility extends to chamber music, which she plays with leading musicians throughout the world. Her early relationship with the Dartington, Allegri and Delme String Quartets led to a much sought-after partnership with the Stamic Quartet of Prague. She also performed regularly with the International Chamber Ensemble of Rome, Carmina Quartet and Reykjavik Wind Quintet and partnered such well known soloists as Stephanie Gonley, Alan Hacker, Maurice Hasson, Emanuel Hurwitz, Ralph Kirshbaum, Steven Isserlis, Peter Lukas Graf, Gyorgy Pauk, Hu Kun, Sylvia Rosenberg, Grigori Zhislin, Yossi Zivoni and singers Benjamin Luxon, Sherrill Milnes, Nelly Miricioiu and Sir John Tomlinson.
The CD’s of her recently re-issued BBC recordings, “Norma Fisher at the BBC Vol 1”, and “Norma Fisher at the BBC Vol 2” have been received with international acclaim, being awarded Editors and Critics Choice 2018 and 2019, by The Gramophone magazine. Vol. 2 also had the honour of being awarded the 2020/41 st “Grande Prix du Disque” by the Ferenc Liszt Society of Budapest.
Her reputation as a teacher is widely established and many of her top prize-winning students are well known on the international concert circuit. She is a Professor of Piano at the Royal College of Music and a Fellow of the Royal Northern College of Music and is invited to give master classes throughout the world. She is regularly invited on the Jury of leading international piano competitions including Gina Bachauer (USA), Horowitz (Kiev), Joanna Hodges (USA), Boston Grand Amateurs (USA), Newport (Wales), Ricardo Vines (Spain), San Marino (Italy), Sydney (Australia), Tbilisi (Georgia) and Virginia Waring (USA),
She is the Artistic Director of London Master Classes www.londonmasterclasses.com whose courses attract major talent from around the world to work intensively with top performers/teachers in London. In 2018 London Master Classes celebrated 30 years of offering these prestigious events.
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