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aboutus jasminmusic is owned and maintained by John Rayson
John studied music at the University of Wales, Cardiff, gaining his B.Mus degree with 1st. Class Honours, winning the Morgan Lloyd Scholarship, later completing his MA in 20th Century Music Analysis. John was for six years a viola player with the orchestra of the Welsh National Opera. More recently pursuing a freelance career he has played for the orchestra of the English National Opera at the London Coliseum, the orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and for the orchestra of the Royal Ballet. He has played for the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the orchestra of English National Ballet and the Orchestra of St.Johns, and has performed for the ensemble of the contemporary opera company Music Theatre Wales and for the ensemble of Nuremberg Pocket Opera Company. Also successful as a chamber musician he has performed at London's Wigmore Hall and South Bank Centre, recorded for CD and broadcast for BBC Radio 3 and Channel 4 Television. John was a soloist in a performance of Bach's Third Brandenburg Concerto directed by the late Lord Menuhin in Santander, Spain in 1994. More recently he performed again at the Wigmore Hall, London in the UK premier of the violin concerto by the Armenian composer Arutunian and also performed with the orchestra of Glyndebourne Touring Opera in the premiere of the opera "Tangier Tattoo" by the Scottish composer John Lunn. In January 2008 John was appointed visiting viola teacher and chamber music coach at Christ's Hospital School, Horsham, Sussex, in addition to which he also maintains a small private teaching practice. In August 2011 he was invited to coach chamber music for the Camberwell Young Musicians' Summer Music Course, 'Cellotime', and later in the year will join the orchestra of Glyndebourne Touring Opera for their 2011 Autumn tour. John Rayson is a member of the Incorporated Society of Musicians
Discography In addtion to numerous symphonic and operatic recordings for LP, CD and DVD, John has also appeared as a featured artist on a number of chamber music recordings; Mana. Music by the Irish-American flautist/composer Justin Murphy. Recorded New Orleans, 1999. The Comparative Anatomy of Angels. Music by Daniel Biro. London, 1997 Edmund Rubbra. The Four String Quartets, performed by the Sterling String Quartet. London, 1996. The Rocky Road to Kansas, music by Robert Moran. London, 1994. Frogdance. Music by Loll Coxhill. Cardiff, 1986.
Nicolas Cherniavsky Cellist and arranger Nicolas Cherniavsky founded Galloway Music in 1996, and his popular arrangements for strings are now widely performed. Nicolas's extensive collection of Ragtime arrangements for string quartet are now available via the jasminmusic online catalogue. For a more complete list of titles in the Galloway music catalogue please visit www.gallowaymusic.co.uk
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