Tutors

MICHAEL AXTELL (PRINCIPAL CONDUCTOR, SINFONIETTA) was principal flute with the ENO for 18 years, and has played with the Ballet Rambert and the Festival Ballet, (now the English National Ballet). His guest appearances include the Sidney Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Welsh Orchestra, the Northern Symphonia and the San Sebastian Symphony Orchestra. He is woodwind coach for various London boroughs, has tutored the master class at the North Carolina University, and has been tutor at the Orlando Festival, Holland.

RUTH BEEDHAM (SINFONIETTA CELLO) studied at Trinity College of Music with Alison Wells and Natasha Pavlutskaya. In the final year of her undergraduate course Ruth won the Leonard Smith prize for string duo (with pianist Peter Davies) and gained a scholarship to continue her studies with Natasha on the postgraduate course at TCM. In March 2004 Ruth was guest soloist with Wandsworth Symphony Orchestra. She now performs regularly in the London area with various orchestras and ensembles and gives recitals with both pianist Marcus Andrews and with ‘Duo Cello’ which she formed with fellow cellist Pippa Rans. In March 2005 Ruth was principal cellist of Jersey Symphony7 Orchestra. Ruth also thoroughly enjoys her teaching both at City of London School for boys and at an all girls school in Camberwell. When she is not madly dashing around the city with her cello Ruth likes to run. She has taken part in several fun runs in the past year and hopes to complete the London marathon in the near future.

IAN CUTHILL (BASSOON) was a member of the English Chamber Orchestra for over twenty years and still plays with them occasionally. He has played in all the leading London orchestras and has recorded for films and television. He has worked for the Bournemouth and BBC Scottish Orchestras and Sadlers Wells Opera. He has also played period instruments with various groups including the Ionian Classical Players. He has taught or coached at the Guildhall School of Music, National Youth Orchestra, Harrogate Wind Course and London Schools Symphony Orchestra.

JACQUELINE DOSSOR began her double bass studies in Sydney, Australia at age 16. She completed a Bachelor of Music in Performance at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2004. During that time she studied under Alex Henery (Co-Principal SSO) and Kirtsy McCahon (Principal Australian Brandenburg Orchestra). Concurrently, Jacqueline worked with the Sydney Philharmonia Orchestra and Australian Youth Orchestra. Awarded a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music in London, Jacqueline completed her Post Graduate Diploma in Orchestral Training in 2006 where she studied with Duncan McTier (Nash Ensemble), Graham Mitchell (Philharmonia Orchestra) and Rodney Stewart. During her time at the Royal Academy, Jacqueline has worked under internationally renowned musicians including Sir Colin Davis, Sir Charles Mackerras, Trevor Pinnock, Laurence Cummings, Simon Standage and Margaret Faultless. She has also had extensive training on Baroque double bass with Chi-chi Nwanoku (Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment). Aside from working with many of the UK’s finest orchestras and period ensembles Jacqueline performs regularly with various chamber ensembles and is a member of the Nymboida Quintet which performs a variety of music from Schubert ‘Trout’ Quintet to contemporary music such as Brett Dean’s ‘Voices of Angels’.

JOHN EDNEY (TROMBONE) studied with Geoffrey Lindon at Trinity College of Music where he held a trombone scholarship. He has been a member of the Royal Opera House Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and London Mozart Players. He is a member of the Orchestra of St. John’s Smith Square and the City of London Sinfonia. He coaches Chamber Music as Professor of Trombone at Trinity College.

MADDY EVANS (SINFONIETTA VIOLIN) studies music with Julia Hanson and Hazel Fanning at the University of Manchester where she was a joint first study student in violin and piano. Since graduating in 2002 she has been working in Warwickshire and Oxforshire as a freelance player and teacher. She has given several recitals both as a soloist s as a member of various chamber groups. Maddy has appeared as guest leader and soloist for a number of orchestras in the area. She is continuing her studies on violin with Nic Fallowfield.

CATHY FOX (SINFONIETTA VIOLIN) Catherine studied at TCM with Gillian Findlay. She currently teaches at Brighton College and The London Oratory School as well as being a tutor on the NLMS summer school. Being a keen orchestral player, she has performed with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, the Jeune Orchestre Atlantique and was leader of the Tempus Chamber Orchestra. She performs with freelance ensembles including the London Soloist’s Orchestra, the Fine Arts Sinfonia and is a member of the recently formed St Paul’s Sinfonia. As a recitalist she has performed in Southwark and Leicester Cathedrals and St Martin-in-the-Fields, and is a member of The Lacarni Ensemble and the Sherwood Piano Duo. She has recorded for Mcasso Music Productions Ltd, including music for the feature film ‘EMR’ and the Eurovision Song Contest.

JEAN HORNBUCKLE (CONTRALTO)

JANE HYLAND (S.O. CELLO) was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Britain as a teenager before the winning a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Music. An inspirational influence was Paul Tortelier, and after playing for him in a BBC masterclass she studied with him and his wife privately in Paris. Having had principal cello appointments in Germany and BBC Wales, she now teaches and is a regular performer in recitals and chamber music.

JUDITH VAN INGEN studied the violin and chamber music at the Royal Academy of Music with Rosemary Rapaport and Sydney Griller. Since leaving the Halle Orchestra she has freelanced with many modern instrument orchestras across the country including English National Ballet, Northern Chamber Orchestra, Manchester Concert Orchestra et al. and teaches at The Queen’s School, Chester. Judith also plays with period instrument groups (Baroque and Classical) and manages the 18th Century Concert Orchestra – an orchestra whose members play instruments of the period and wear period costume.

JOHN JONES (FRENCH HORN) studied primarily in Berlin and at the Guildhall School of Music before embarking on a varied musical career. He was principal with Sadler’s Wells and Welsh National Opera Companies (1966-74) and has worked with many of the country’s leading orchestras and ensembles. He has been Horn Professor at the Army Junior School of Music, tutors for the NCO and presently teaches at three top independent schools in the West Country.

DAVID LEWIS (SO VIOLIN) is a graduate of the Royal College of Music and divides his time between performing and teaching on both modern and period instruments. He has played and recorded with the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera and is currently leader of the Reading Symphony Orchestra and co-leader of the English Haydn Symphony Orchestra, as well as a regular player with many other orchestras and ensembles in the UK. David made his big screen debut leading the orchestra for the film The Madness of King George.

RICHARD LEWIS (TENOR) trained as a singer and teacher at Trinity College of Music, studying there with the baritone John Carol Case. Richard subsequently entered the Guildhall School of Music and Drama as a post graduate City of London Scholar, to study opera. Richard has had a varied career, singing on television, with Opera for All, the BBC and at the Chapel Royal, St. James’s Palace. Dovetailing with singing has been a career in education as a head teacher and inspector, which led to an interest in counselling and to Richard training to be an integrative psychotherapist. Richard now manages the counselling team at Trinity College of Music (where he has a particular interest in performance anxiety), has a private practice, works with young people in schools, teaches counselling in a college, sings and co-conducts two choirs on the Shropshire-Welsh borders.

JENNY MCGHIE (SINFONIETTA VIOLA) studied with Ursula Stedman and Ian Jewel and the Royal Academy of Music, and has since built a successful career in teaching, freelance performance and coaching. She teaches in private schools in East Sussex and is a founder member of the Festival String Quartet and Kenley Clarinet Quintet. Her work has taken her to all the major London orchestral venues, and Jenny also enjoys playing in musical theatre and opera in London and the South East.

PHILIP MEADEN has been Director of the NLMS for 15 years and he was a founder member of the conducting staff. He has extensive experience as a professional musician, a teacher and an administrator, and he has enjoyed working with adult amateur musicians for over three decades. In addition to his work with the NLMS, he is Principal of the Leeds College of Music, Patron of the Benslow Musical Instrument Loan Scheme, and a member of the boards of Conservatoires UK, the London Sinfonietta, the Mbawula Trust, South Asian Arts UK and Yorkshire Young Musicians. Previous appointments include Assistant Principal of Trinity College of Music, Chief Executive of the Benslow Music Trust, and Principal of Morley College, London. He has received honorary awards from both Trinity College and the Royal Academy of Music for services to music and education.

GREGORY MITCHELL (FLUTE) received awards to study with Averil Williams and Peter Lloyd at the GSMD, and Edward Beckett at the National Centre for Orchestral Studies. His performing career has included live and recorded appearances on BBC Radio and Television, West End shows and numerous recital, chamber and concerto engagements. Gregory is a busy freelance orchestral player and has participated in many educational workshops, notably with his flute quartet Tutti Frutti.

MARY MOGIL (SOPRANO) graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she won the British Song Prize. She was Head of Music and Speech and Drama at a Public School and later Director of Music at a Grammar School in London and organised performances for children’s, youth and adult groups, working with both amateur and professional speakers, singers and instrumentalists. She spent over twenty years as singer, teacher and choir conductor in Salzburg, where she directed a variety of choirs ranging from chamber groups to an award-winning choral society. She has lectured at seminars for singers, choral directors and teachers and worked with choirs and dramatic societies in Germany and Switzerland. Mary enjoys singing and teaching classical music and drama, as well as a wide variety of folk, musical, jazz and contemporary vocal and choral music. She is a vocal coach and lecturer for Voice Training, Choral Conducting and Italian, German and French for Singers at Morley College, London. She founded and conducts The Leon Singers, a chamber choir specialising in a cappella music from medieval to modern.

STEPHEN NAGY (OBOE) studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, and at Trinity College of Music, London. He was co-principal oboe and principal cor anglais with Sadlers Wells Opera Company 1959-63. Since then he has played with most of the major orchestras in this country and given many solo, chamber and lecture recitals. He is a professor at Trinity College of Music and, since 1986, Stephen has been a member of the Woodwind Workshop Group, giving masterclasses country-wide. He has been principal adjudicator at the Chamber Music Competition for Schools since 1982.

VIKTOR OBSUST (SO DOUBLE BASS) studied at Trinity College of Music and Goldsmiths College, London, having previously attended Bratislava State Conservatoire. From there he won scholarships to attend many music schools including the Oxford Cello School, where he was head of the double bass course in 1999. Viktor is principal bass in the Chamber Orchestra, Contemporary Music Group and String Ensembles of Trinity College. He has gained teaching experience as Assistant Project Leader at the City of Novi Sad Cultural Centre, Leeds 2000, Da Capo Music School and Queen’s Park Community School.

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