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Date of Birth: 09 September 1981

EDUCATION
2000- Present Royal Academy of Music, London
BMus Music
Pioneering and integrated course, designed to promote the highest levels of practical skills and develop creative potential in an increasingly competitive world. A focused yet flexible provision of practical tuition and academic classes built to create international music professionals of tomorrow.
1996-2000 Royal Northern College of Music Junior School, Manchester
1993-2000 Fallibroome High School, Cheshire
4 A-Levels: Music (A), Mathematics (B), Geography (B), General Studies (B)
10 GCSEs: 5A*s, 4As and 1B

ABRSM Qualifications
Viola: Grade 8 distinction, Violin: Grade 8 distinction, Piano: Grade 8 merit, Theory: Grade 5 merit

Viola teachers
Garfield Jackson: Royal Academy of Music: 2000-present
Jim Sleigh: Royal Academy of Music: 2002 (temporary)
Penny Stirling: Royal Northern College of Music 1996-2000

Masterclasses
Paul Silverthorne, Yuko Inoue, Jersey Kosmala, Harmut Rohde, John Streets: 2000-present (RAM)
Sorrel Quartet: 1996-2000
Chillingerian Quartet: summer 1998 (Lake District Summer Music)
Simon Rowland Jones: summer 1998 & 1999 (Lake District Summer Music)

Coaching
Clare Southworth, Hartmut Rohde, Howard Davies, Siegmund Nissel, Matthew Souter: (RAM)
Malcolm Layfield, Christopher Rowland: 1996-2000 (RNCM)

PRIZES AND AWARDS
• Entrance Scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music
• Finalist in ‘Cheshire Young Musician of the Year’, 2000
• Finalist in ‘Music for Youth’ and prize-winner in regional competitions with the ‘Bollin Trio’, 2000
• Winner of ‘1973 Trophy’ and ‘William Bird Salver’, Heaton Mersey, March 1998
• Winner of ‘John and Rosemary Maddocks Trophy’, Chester, May 1997
• Winner of regional music festival prizes, 1994- 2000
• Scholarship to attend the Royal Northern College of Music Junior School

PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE
Solo performances (including)
• Early evening recital at the Royal Academy of Music: April 2003
• Lunchtime concert at the Royal Academy of Music: Feb 2003
• Recital at Knebworth Hall: March 2002
• Recital, St Anne’s Church, Dublin: Feb 2000
• Solo performance, St Michael’s Church: Jan 2000
• Solo performances at RNCM: 1996-2000
• Soloist in concertos with Fallibroome String Ensemble on tour, Spain and Italy: 1998 and 1999

Chamber Ensembles (including)
• ‘Contemporary Performance and Composition Course’ as part of the ‘Britten Pears Young Artists Programme’: July 2003
• ‘Hetherington Quartet’ and ‘ Hetherington Flute Quartet’ Lunchtime Concerts at Royal Academy of Music and recitals at various venues around the UK: 2000- present
• Sessions for the Media and Applied Music department at RAM: 2000- present
• Recording sessions for jazz musicians such as Clarke Tracy: 2000- present
• Performance of Benjamin Dale ‘Sextet’ and Haydn ‘String Quartet in D op 20, no 4’ as part of the Lional Tertis Viola Festival: Nov 2001
• Performance and masterclasses with the ‘Hetherington Quartet’ at the RNCM for a chamber music convention: 2000
• Concerts and masterclasses at the RNCM Junior School with the ‘JS String Quartet’, including performance for the HaydnFest: 1998
• Concerts and masterclasses at Lake District Summer Music: 1998 and 1999

Orchestral (including)
• RAM Symphony, Concert and Sinfonia Orchestras, under such conductors as Yan Pascal Tortelier and Sir Colin Davies: 2000- present
• European Union Youth Orch. under Vladimir Ashkenazy and Bernard Heitink: 2002-present
• Modern Instrument Baroque Orchestra, Principal Viola under Micaela Comberti: 2002- 2003
• Gala Concert with Sir Elton John at the Royal Opera House: Dec 2002
• National Musicians Symphony Orchestra, Royal Festival Hall: Oct 2002
• Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: Summer 2002
• RAM Opera Orchestra; Verdi ‘Falstaff’ under Ian Leddington: June 2002
• Royal Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, RFH: 2001
• RAM String Orchestra, Principal Viola, various dates and programs: 2000

EXPERIENCE
• The South Bank Centre. Stewarding for concerts at the Royal Festival Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Purcell Room: 2001- present
• Royal Academy of Music Community Projects. Visiting primary & secondary schools in London, giving workshops to introduce children to classical music & instruments: 2000- present
• Royal Academy of Music. Stewarding for public concerts, exams and auditions: 2000- 2001
• Private students: 1998- 2000
• Work experience teaching with the Junior Strings Project at the RNCM: 1996

REFEREES
Garfield Jackson (Viola Teacher)
C/o Royal Academy of Music
Marylebone Rd
London, NW1 5HT

Mark Payne (Head of Music)
C/o Fallibroome High School
Priory Rd
Macclesfield, Cheshire