{"id":1704,"date":"2018-11-22T11:37:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T11:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brybrysite.wordpress.com\/?page_id=1704"},"modified":"2024-03-12T10:16:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T10:16:33","slug":"ben-hancox","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/faculty\/ben-hancox\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Hancox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-1705 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ben-hancox-headshot.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Ben Hancox Headshot\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ben-hancox-headshot.jpg 1095w, https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ben-hancox-headshot-986x900.jpg 986w, https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ben-hancox-headshot-300x274.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ben-hancox-headshot-768x701.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ben-hancox-headshot-1024x935.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Ben Hancox is the leader and founder member of the Sacconi Quartet. Since their formation at the Royal College of Music in 2001, the quartet has won international competitions and has toured extensively in Britain and abroad<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Having started playing at the age of four, he studied violin with Faith Whiteley and Serguei Fatkouline, and with Felix Andrievsky at the Royal College of Music. At the RCM Ben won both the major violin prizes. He left with a first class honours degree and was awarded a distinction in his postgraduate diploma in performance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Described by the Observer as \u2018Fearless and exciting\u2019, Ben has earned a trusted reputation as a soloist and chamber musician. He regularly participates in the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove, and the Wye Valley Chamber Music Festival, and through these festivals, has formed many friendships and musical partnerships with performers from around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Ben has recorded widely with his quartet, both on the group\u2019s own label, Sacconi Records and for Signum Classics. Their world premiere recording of Jonathan Dove\u2019s chamber music, on Signum was both Critic\u2019s Choice and Recording of the Month in Gramphone Magazine. Ben also records music for film and TV, and has also played the Argentine Tango for BBC\u2019s Strictly Come Dancing! <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">As well as performing, Ben enjoys coaching chamber music at the Royal College of Music and at\u00a0 festivals around the UK. He plays on a violin by Simone Sacconi from 1932, which is generously on loan from the Royal Society of Musicians. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Ben has a wife and two young children. He has juggled flaming torches (not near his family).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Hancox is the leader and founder member of the Sacconi Quartet. Since their formation at the Royal College of Music in 2001, the quartet has won international competitions and has toured extensively in Britain and abroad Having started playing at the age of four, he studied violin with Faith Whiteley and Serguei Fatkouline, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26925,"parent":47,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"fullwidth-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5379,"href":"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1704\/revisions\/5379"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lsginternationalsummerschool.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}