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Curriculum Vitae

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ORCHESTRAL

Professional
• Philharmonia Orchestra – Trial, sitting nos. 2, 3 & 4 as required (current)
• London Symphony Orchestra (extra list)
• City of London Sinfonia (extra list)
• Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra – Including No.3
• Aurora Orchestra
• Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, USA
• The Dmitri Ensemble – Principal
• Orchestra of St Paul’s – Principal
• St Endellion Festival Orchestra – Guest principal

Training
• Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra/Eastman School of Music – Orchestral Studies Diploma
• London Symphony Orchestra – String Experience Scheme (recipient of their PROMIS Award for most outstanding participant)
• European Union Youth Orchestra
• Britten-Pears Young Artists’ Orchestra
• Dartington Festival Orchestra – Principal
• Eastman School of Music Opera Orchestra – Principal
• Royal Academy of Music Symphony and Concert Orchestras – Principal • Royal Academy of Music Soloists
• Cambridge University Chamber and Symphony Orchestras – Principal
• National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain – Principal


SESSIONS/RECORDINGS

• Dmitri Ensemble/Tom Winpenny/Graham Ross – Judith Bingham Organ Works (Signum Records)
• Dmitri Ensemble/Clare College Choir/Sir David Willcocks – Vaughan Williams Songs (Albion Records, Cambridge)
• London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Colin Davis – Sibelius, Symphonies Nos 1 & 4 (LSO Live, Barbican Hall)
• London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Colin Davis – Berlioz Benvenuto Cellini (LSO Live, Barbican Hall)
• Sinfonia Sfera/Karl Jenkins – Mike Oldfield, Music of the Spheres (Mercury Records)


EDUCATION PROJECTS/OUTREACH

• LSO Discovery – Fusion Orchestra
• Orchestra of St Paul’s – Education days at University College School, Hampstead


CONCERTOS

• Beethoven Triple Concerto (Del Mar Piano Trio - 2011)
- Brandon Hill Chamber Orchestra
    - Hertfordshire Chamber Orchestra
    - Stamford Chamber Orchestra
• Bruch Kol Nidrei
    - Crowndale Symphony Orchestra
    - Orchestra-on-the-Hill, Cambridge
• Handel Concerto for Two Cellos
    - Crowndale Symphony Orchestra
• Elgar Cello Concerto
    - Orchestra of St Paul’s
    - Oxford Sinfonia
    - Exeter Symphony Orchestra
• Saint-Saens Cello Concerto No.1
    - Cambridge ad hoc Orchestra
• Schumann Cello Concerto
    - Orchestra of St Paul’s
    - St John’s Charity Orchestra, Sevenoaks
• Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme (original version)
    - Syred Sinfonia
    - Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra
• Vivaldi Concerto for Two Cellos
    - Clare College Music Society, Cambridge


CHAMBER

• Jigsaw Players
• Oldak Quartet (with Accordion)
    - Park Lane Group’s Young Composer’s Symposium, The Warehouse, London
    - Colston Hall, Bristol – Lunchtime Series
    - Norfolk and Norwich Festival
    - RAM Accordion Department’s Birthday Celebrations
    - Keble College, Oxford
    - David Josefowitz Hall; Duke’s Hall – Royal Academy of Music
• Del Mar Piano Trio
    - St Olave’s Church, London
    - St James’s Church, Piccadilly, London
    - Aylesbury Music Festival
    - Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, London
    - St Sepulchre-without-Newgate Church, London
    - Rake Court, Surrey
    - David Josefowitz Hall; Duke’s Hall – Royal Academy of Music
    - Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
• St Endellion Festival, chamber performances
• Shoreham Festival, Kent, chamber performances


PRIZES AND AWARDS

• Graduate Award – Eastman School of Music (2007-09)
• PROMIS Award – London Symphony Orchestra – for most outstanding student on the String Experience Scheme (2007)
• Rhoda Butt Award – Royal Academy of Music (2007) • DipRAM (for outstanding final recital) – Royal Academy of Music (2007)
• Duchess of Cornwall Award – English Chamber Orchestra (2007)
• Leverhulme Orchestral Fellowship – Royal Academy of Music (2006-07)
• John Ireland Prize (Del Mar Piano Trio) – Royal Academy of Music (2006)
• Harry Isaacs Prize (Del Mar Piano Trio) – Royal Academy of Music (2006)
• Winifred Disney Bursary – Royal Academy of Music (2005-6)
• Guilhermina Suggia Gift (finalist) – Musicians’ Benevolent Fund (2005)
• Cambridge Instrumental Award (2002-05)


EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Eastman School of Music, New York (2007-09)
    - Masters Degree in Performance and Literature
    - Orchestral Studies Diploma
• Royal Academy of Music, London (2005-07)
    - PGDip. (dist.)
    - DipRAM (for outstanding final recital)
    - LRAM (dist.)
• Cambridge University, Churchill College (2002-05)
    - MA Hons.
• Royal College of Music, Junior Department (1992-2002)

Professors
• Steven Doane (Eastman School) • Josephine Knight (RAM)
• Karine Georgian (Private Tuition) • Alexander Boyarsky (RCM)

Masterclasses
Alexander Baillie • Alexander Boyarsky • Malcolm Bilson • Colin Carr • Robert Cohen • Robert DeMaine • Steven Doane • Jonathan Feldman • Karine Georgian • Bernard Greenhouse • Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

Bursaries
• Richard Syred Music Bursary Fund (Churchill College, Cambridge)
• Dartington International Summer School
• Dulce Haigh Marshall Trust
• Lawrence Atwell’s Charity
• Churchill College, Cambridge
• Isaac Newton Trust, University of Cambridge
• English Speaking Union