Tutors
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Tutors
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Our tutors are amongst the best in the UK. All have active professional careers. All have extensive experience of working with, inspiring and building the confidence of adult players, learners and late starters.
Cellist William Bruce studied at the Royal College of Music in London with
Christopher Bunting and later with William Pleeth and Jacqueline du Pre. William
has performed all the major cello concertos and given recitals throughout the
UK and in Europe, Australia and America, including a Carnegie Hall debut recital
in 2005. As Director of The Cello Club of Great Britain, William is much in
demand for master classes and workshops and runs a residential summer school
for
cellists each year. He has been a member of Council and Management Committee
of the European String Teachers Association, sits on the advisory panel for
the Violoncello Society of London and is involved in many aspects of the work
of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. Tours have taken him
to examine and lecture in Hong Kong, the West Indies, South America, Africa,
Sri Lanka and Iceland. He is an experienced adjudicator and was recently televised
on the panel of the Young Musician of Wales 2007. Spectrum for Cello - a volume
of 21st century cello pieces for which he was commissioning editor - has received
world wide acclaim, and he has also collaborated with Mary Cohen on a beginners
cello tutor for Faber, commissioned Faber's Fingerprints for Cello, and edited
and recorded Playalong for Cello which is about to be released by Boosey and
Hawkes. William also plays in the orchestra of the EnNational Opera and is
Head of Strings at the Junior Guildhall School
of Music and Drama.
Born in Scotland in 1976, Robin Michael studied at the Royal Acacdemy of Music with David Strange and Colin Carr. Since his acclaimed South Bank debut as part of the Park Lane Group series in 2002 he has devoted much of his time to playing contemporary music taking part in many premiers and broadcasts. He recently gave the the first performance of Joe Cutler's cello concerto and other recent solo tours have taken him to Asia, South Africa and all over Europe. He regularly performs with Lontano, Ensemble Expose, BCMG, Ixion, Almeida Ensemble, Gemini and Noszferatu and is a regular guest principal with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Forthcoming recordings include the complete works for cello of Ginastera and chamber music by Ferneyhough and Maxwell Davies
Belfast born violinist Darragh Morgan is an established soloist of new music.
He has recorded solo CDs for NMC, Black Box, Metier and ensemble albums for
DG and Nimbus Records Following two sell-out performances at his Wien Modern
debut in
1998 he quickly established himself as a soloist of new music; international
festival
appearances include
Warsaw Autumn, Ars Musica Brussels, Lucerne Festival, Darmstadt, Dubrovnik Summer
Festival, Festival D’Automne Paris, Spitalfields, Cheltenham, Aldeburgh
and BBC Proms
Chamber Music. He has worked with many of the world’s leading contemporary
music groups,
including Ensemble Modern, the London Sinfonietta, Musik Fabrik, BCMG and the
Remix Ensemble, and
is a member of The Smith Quartet. He has appeared as concertmaster with several
orchestras
including English Touring Opera. Darragh is a regular soloist with The Ulster
Orchestra,
recently featuring in the world premiere of Sir John Tavener’s Hymn of
Dawn. He is a faculty
member of Apple Hill Chamber Music, New Hampshire; he often coaches at The Britten-Pears
Young Artists Programme and is on the staff of Goldsmiths College, University
of London. Darragh’s
many recordings have appeared on Deutsche Grammophon, Nimbus, Metier, Black Box
and
NMC.
Viktor is a graduate of Bratislavia State Conservatoire. He came to London in 1998 as an Aurelius scholar at Trinity College of Music where he was awarded Fellowship in 2002. He became an associate lecturer with University of Chichester in 2005 where he also gives regular jazz and yoga workshops. He has been a regular tutor at Benslow since 2002 and New London Music Society summer school since 2000 and has set up education projects in his native war torn homeland (Yugoslavia) inspired by the concept of the Dartington Summer School. His most recent projects involve conducting a recording in Prague with Phil Brown and regular appearance at Vortex Jazz Club.
Leo has trained as a conductor, string player and pianist. On the advanced conductors course at Dartington in 2000, Leo went on to win the Trinity College of Music Conducting prize in 2003. He currently conducts ELLSO’s Performance Ensemble. His sinterests include the works of Beethoven, orchestral technique and the Mozart operas.
Laura has worked as a cellist in many genres of music. She has worked with Mercury Music Prize nominees Kathryn Williams, Tom McRae and Maximo Park, and recorded for East West, CAW, Warp and 4AD records. TV and radio sessions include Later with Jools Holland, Loose Ends, France Inter and Women’s Hour. Initially studying music at Newcastle University, Laura then completed an MA in Composition at City University. Her compositions have been performed by London Sinfonietta, and broadcast by the BBC.
Anna studied both the violin and piano at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Her teachers have included Tasmin Little, Helen Krizos and Mark Knight. Anna has performed in various concerts around the UK and has participated in masterclasses with distinguished musicians such as Zvi Zeitlin, Michaela Comberti, members of the Palladian Ensemble, the Takacs Quartet, the Vellinger Quartet and the Sorrell Quartet as well as performing in a televised masterclass with Sir Yehudi Menuhin. She recently featured on BBC Radio 3 as the solo violinist in a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade. In 1990 Anna was named ‘The Most Promising Musician’ in the Blackburn Music Festival adjudicated by the pianist Martin Roscoe. In 1991 she was a runner-up in the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition and in 1993 Anna was a grand finalist in the Audi Junior Musician Competition. Anna has been awarded scholarships to study both the violin and viola at the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music in London. She has also gained places in the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and the European Community Youth Orchestra.
As a conductor, Gregory Rose has extensive experience with both professional and amateurs in orchestral, operatic and choral music. He has toured extensively in a professional capacity in Eastern and Western Europe and the Far East. He is music director of COMA London Ensemble and has tutored on ELLSO’s music-making visits to the Greek island of Kythira. Gregory has played violin for over 20 years and is Professor of Conducting at Trinity College of Music.
Julian is an accomplished orchestral player and has been a member of the Ulster Orchestra and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. He has worked as a freelance violinist with many orchestras including Brandenburg Sinfonia, London Concert Orchestra, Bath Philharmonia, London Pops Orchestra, Guildford Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, New London Orchestra and Opera Project. He has taught violin at Marlborough College and currently teaches at Trevor Roberts School in Swiss Cottage. He has always had a diverse interest in playing different musical styles including Irish folk, bluegrass, jazz, rock and pop. He writes his own arrangements of these styles for his string quartet, the Amber Players, www.amberplayers.co.uk. He plays in various chamber music ensembles such as Status Symbol String Quartet, the Miller Piano Quartet and L'Inviti String Quartet. In addition he plays for the PM Music Ensemble, the Cardiff- based contemporary music group. He works for the record producer Ron Tomlinson and is featured on Sinead O'Connor's forthcoming album, Theology to be released in April 2007. He formed his own folk-rock band in Bournemouth, which was a band in residence at Durleston Castle, Swanage. Julian studied violin with Leonard Hirsch, Lydia Mordkovitch at the Royal Northern College of Music and, more recentl,y with Susanne Stanzeleit.
Andrew Watkinson was born in Portsmouth 1957. He received formal musical training
at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London with teachers Suzanne Rosza
and Erika Klemperer. A 5 year stint followed with the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra
and Iceland’s National Opera Company. Returning to England in 1988, he
took a teaching post alongside free lance playing, including the UK tour of
Joseph, the Buxton International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival
and chamber/recital work on violin and viola. He is currently working for Opus
1 Opera touring Ireland and the UK throughout the year. His teaching career
has included work with youth orchestras, various ensembles along with individual
teaching. He is now teaching part time at Leeds College of Music and directs
and conducts the LCM’s Sinfonia orchestra.