Rosie Burton

Bassoon

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Orchestral Experience

Professional

·         Southbank Sinfonia - member (2008)

o   Production of Tom Stoppard’s Every Good Boy Deserves Favour at the National Theatre

·         English National Opera - Extra List by audition

·         Orchestral of St Paul’s, Covent Garden - principal

Amateur

·         Ernest Read Symphony Orchestra - principal

·         Forest Philharmonic Orchestra - guest principal

·         Blaze Ensemble

·         St Paul’s Sinfonia, Deptford

·         Syred Sinfonia - principal

·         St John’s Symphony Orchestra - principal and contra

Training

·         Side-by-side projects with: LSO • Philharmonia • BBC Concert Orchestra • Britten Sinfonia

             Orchestral of the Royal Opera House • Academy of St Martin in the Fields

·         LSO St Luke’s Woodwind Academy

·         GSMD Symphony • Chamber • Opera Orchestras • New Music Ensemble

·         Cambridge University Orchestras

·         National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain (principal 2002)

 

Education and Outreach

  • LSO Discovery - The Lite of Spring Project
  • BBC Symphony Orchestra - Family Orchestra project with and Lincoln Abbotts
  • Southbank Sinfonia  - Blake Project • 2012 Project • Saturday Spectacular Concerts at Cadogan Hall
  • Berkeley Ensemble and Samling Foundation - Project in schools around Durham
  • English Schools’ Orchestra - Assistant Woodwind Tutor
  • Chamber Tots for the Wigmore Hall

 

Solo and Chamber:

·         Park Lane Group Young Artist 2009: with pianist Christopher White

o   Premieres of works by Graham Sheen and Graham Waterhouse

o   “In Tune” - Live broadcast on Radio 3

o   Recitals at the Purcell Room and St James, Piccadilly

·         Berkeley Ensemble - concerts in London, Manchester, Sheffield, Durham and Newcastle

·         London premiere of John Casken’s Blue Medusa for bassoon and ensemble

·         Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with Southbank Sinfonia

·         Member of ad hoc Aquilo Wind Ensemble.  Premiere of Jeremy Thurlow’s Animals in Cambridge Festival

·         Houkou Wind Quintet - performance at the Malcolm Arnold Festival, Northampton

·         Duo works by John Casken and Sally Beamish in the Second Glance Festival at the Bolivar Hall, London

·         Richard Strauss’s Duett-Concertino for Cambridge University Music Club

·         Robin Holloway’s Bassoon Concerto with Cambridge University Symphony Orchestra

·         World premiere of John Casken’s Blue Medusa

·         Park Lane Group Young Artist 2009 with pianist Christopher White

o   Premieres of works by Graham Sheen and Graham Waterhouse at the Purcell Room

·         John Casken’s Blue Medusa - World premiere

 

Prizes and Scholarships

·         Dorset Foundation Scholarship (GSMD)

·         Countess of Munster Musical Trust Award

·         Musicians’ Benevolent Fund Award

·         Craxton Memorial Trust Award

·         Cambridge University Instrumental Award

·         Sally Wainwright Woodwind Prize (Junior RCM)

 

Education

  • Guildhall School of Music and Drama - PG Diploma with distinction (2007)
  • St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge -  BA Music (2003 – 2006)

Professors: Graham Sheen • Daniel Jemison • Meyrick Alexander • Andrea de Flammineis

                     Martin Field (Contra)

 

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