Special Fx – Leslie Boulin Raulet

Join us on the 28 Novemeber for Special FX at the Great Hall in the Royal Exchange Theatre for a recital with our very own Leslie Boulin-Raulet on Violin with Simon Parkin on piano.Tickets: Free and unreservedConcert: 5:30pmLeslie Boulin Raulet is a french chamber musician. After finishing her classes in Paris (Agn&es Reverdy), in America (Stephane Tran NGoc), in London (Royal College of music with yuri Zhislin) and finally getting a Master in the Guildhall School of Music in Jacqueline Ross’s class, she now sees Gordan Nikolic, Goran Gribajevic, Isabelle Van Keulen and Harvey de Sousa for advices with the violin and philosophical approaches on life.

She was the Concertmaster of Southbank Sinfonia during the year 2012 with whom she played the Beethoven concerto. After freelancing with the London Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Concert Orchestra, Leslie is now the Principal second violin in the Manchester Camerata (job share), she is the Principal second violin in the Camerata Alma Viva and is currently on trial with the Royal Northern Sinfonia, and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra for principal second. She has also been on BBC In Tunes as a soloist, and is now part of the Zaide quartet. Leslie is the founder of the Brillig Ensemble, an unconducted chamber orchestra formed of 32 musicians from all over the world, which she leads from the violin.