Free Web Hosting Provider - Web Hosting - E-commerce - High Speed Internet - Free Web Page
Search the Web

About Page







  

ABOUT

 

Education

 
  • Toronto Summer Music Festival and Academy, Canada (Scholar) – Janos Starker - 2007
  • Encuentro de Musica y Academia de Santander, Spain (Scholar) - Natalia Gutman & Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, 2006
  • Royal Academy of Music, London (Scholar) PGDip - Philip Sheppard & Josephine Knight 2005-07
  • Royal College of Music, London - BMus(Hons) 2000-04 - Alexander Boyarsky 2000-2003 & Philip de Groote 2004
  • Have participated in masterclasses with Lowri Blake, Colin Carr, Natalie Clein, Robert Cohen, Steven Doane, Rosemary Elliott, Emma Ferrand, Bernard Greenhouse, Philip de Groote, Hehuda Hanani, Frans Helmerson, Alice Neary, Jerome Pernoo, Felix Schimdt, Maggie Faultless
  • and Chamber Music masterclasses with The Trio Ondine and The Salomon Quartet, The Skampa Quartet, The Chilingirian Quartet, Andrew West, Harmut Rohde, Aleksander Pavlovic, Thomas Brandis, Jospeh Seiger
  • Studied in Moscow, Russia, 2000 with Igor Sitnikov 

Professors: Felix Schmidt, Philip Sheppard, Josephine Knight, Philip De Groote, Alexander Boyarsky, Igor Sitnikov, Eduardo Vassallo

 

 

COMPETITIONS, PRIZES AND AWARDS
  • Kathleen & Margery Elliott Scholarship 2007
  • Henry Dixon Scholarship & Edith Stevenson Music Bequest – Royal Academy of Music 2006
  • Michael James Musical Trust Award, 2006
  • Newby Trust Award, 2006
  • Sarah Hebdon/BOES Scholarship, 2005 & 06
  • The Raphael Sommer Scholarship, 2005 
  • The Dennis Carr Music Bursary Fund, 2005
  • Young Musicians’ Trust Scholarship, 2005
  • Helen Just Prize & Stuart Knussen Prize for Violoncello, Royal College of Music, 2004
  • Quartet in Residence, Aveda UK – The Bacchus Quartet
  • Jellinek Award - including concerto with Guildford Symphony Orchestra, 2003

Solo and Chamber Experience

  • The Bacchus Quartet as part of GPlus Ensemble – Kings Place opening festival

  • The Bacchus Quartet - coaches, Hugh Bean, Chilingirian Quartet
  • The Shanahan Trio - coaches, Renna Kellaway, the Trio Ondine and Barry Snyder
  • The Delphinus Quintet - coaches, Martin Outram, Vanbrugh Quartet
  • Soloist in Elgar Concerto with Bromley Ecumenical Orchestra, July 2006 
  • The Blyth Ensemble - ‘Nous Repertories Musica XXI’ Festival Barcelona – Soloist
  • Soloist in Il matrimonio segreto by Domenico Cimarosa at Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild, Saint Jean Cap Ferrat with Les Azuriales Opera, August 2003
  • Flute and ‘Cello duo recital in Kensington Palace, July 2003
  • Concerto performance of Bruch Kol Nidrei with the Guildford Symphony Orchestra, March 2003
  • Soloist in Schumann Concerto with Luxembourg Philharmonia, Luxembourg, November 2002
  • Recitalist both as a soloist and with The Bacchus Quartet in venues including Cheltenham Town Hall, Chipping Camden Music Festival, The National Gallery, Lauderdale House, Sheffield Cathedral and Birmingham Cathedral
  • Soloist for Almaviva Opera in their production of Britten’s Albert Herring, 2002
  • Soloist on numerous Film, Radio, Television and Pop soundtracks, including a film shown at the Berlin International Film Festival, 2002 and a soundtrack for The Red Shoes, a play on BBC Radio 4, 2001
  • Performance of Bach Cello Suite No.2 in nationally televised Lockerbie ‘Ten Year Act of Remembrance’ at Westminster Abbey
  • Soloist in Haydn Concerto in C with Sutton Symphony Orchestra, February 1998

    •  

Theatre

“Why the Whales Came” by Michael Morpurgo – Birmingham Stage Company Nov 08- Jan 09