Professional Ensemble/Orchestral Experience Principal
Timpanist, Southbank
Sinfonia (current position) Trial
for Sub-Principal Percussion, RTE National Symphony Orchestra,
Dublin (June
2004-January 2005) Philharmonia
Orchestra English
Chamber Orchestra (timpani) Glyndebourne English
Sinfonia (timpani) The
Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam RTE
Concert Orchestra BBC
Scottish Symphony Orchestra Bournemouth
Symphony Orchestra Chamber Music
Performance Experimental percussion duo collaboration with Cerith Wyn Evans at the Barbican (2005) Collaboration with video artists/dancers at the Aldeburgh Festival (2005) Wigmore Hall June 2006 (Maxwell Davies) & September 2006 (Bartok Sonata & new works) Bartòk Sonata for Two Pianos & Percussion in Manchester, Halifax & London (2004/5) World premiere of Charles Camilleri’s
Concerto for Two Pianos and Percussion Played ten world premieres in one concert (for percussion and piano) at the Guildhall (September 2004) Festival: Complete works of Steve Reich, with the composer (December 2003) James McMillan’s ‘Parthenogenesis,’ conducted by the composer, South Bank Show in 2002 and at the London premiere in 2005, live for BBC Radio 3 Performed with Keiko Abe, Eric Sammut & Nebosja Zivkovicˇ at the RNCM Solo recitals Solo recitals in London, Manchester, Oldham, Harrogate, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Den Haag, Utrecht, Leiden and Liverpool To perform/direct own work: ‘I’m Sitting in an Orchestra (tribute to Alvin Lucier),’ for chamber orchestra, percussion and electronics, with the Southbank Sinfonia in 2006 Joe Duddel, ‘Snowblind,’ (percussion concerto) with the Southbank Sinfonia (March 2006) Awards/Prizes BBC
Young Musicians Finalist (2002), broadcast on BBC Radio
3 and BBC television Received
scholarships from the Musicians Benevolent Fund, Sabian Cymbals, Leverhulme Trust, The
Goldsmiths’ Company and The City Educational Trust LSO
St. Luke’s Academy (2000 & 2005) RNCM
Wind and Percussion Second Year Prize (2002) BBC
Young Musicians Semi-Finalist (1999) ABRSM:
Grade 8 Piano, merit (1999), Grade 8 Percussion, merit (1997) Harrogate
Music Festival Percussion Winner (1993) Timpani
teachers David
Corkhill (English Chamber
Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra); Ian Wright (Royal
Liverpool Philharmonic
Orchestra); Paul Patrick (BBC Philharmonic); Luuk Nagtegaal
(Residentie Orkest) Orchestral/Contemporary
Percussion teachers Mike
Skinner (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden); Richard
Benjafield (London Sinfonietta,
Ensemble BASH);
Paul Patrick (BBC Philharmonic); Liz Gilliver; Graham Johns (Royal
Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra);
Dave Hext (Hallé Orchestra); Wim Vos
(Residentie Orkest,
Slagwerk Groep Den Haag);
Hans Zonderop (Nederlands Radio Philharmonisch);
Cherry Bratkovsky Drum
Kit/World Percussion teachers Dave
Hassell; Ali N’Diaye Rose (Senegalese Percussion); Rob Verhagen (Basle Drumming); Andy Channing (Balinese
Gamelan) Masterclasses Keiko Abe,
John Beck, John Beck Jr., Richard Benjafield, Simon
Carrington, Paul Clarvis, Alan Cumberland, Bosco De Olivera, Tom Dyani, Evelyn Glennie, Juanjo Guillem, Kurt-Hans Goedicke, Jim Kilpatrick, Arthur Lipner,
Frederic Macarez, Mike Maneiri,
Victor Mendoza, Nick Ormrod, Marney
O’Sullivan, Neil Percy, Nick Petrella, Ralph Salmins, Eric Sammut, David
Searcy, Rainer Seegars, Leigh-Howard Stevens, Birger Sulsbruck, Ed Thigpen,
Nigel Thomas, Klaus Tresselt, Dave Wickins, Nancy Zeltsman, Nebosja Zivkovic and others Education Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London
(2004/5): MMus with Distinction Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
(2000-2004) & Koninklijk
Conservatorium, The Hague (2002/3): BMus(hons):- class 2:1 Chetham’s
School of Music, Manchester (1998-2000); St. John Fisher’s R.C. High School, Harrogate (1993- 1998);St. Robert’s R.C. Primary School, Harrogate (1987-1993): 3 A-levels (ABB), 11 GCSEs (A*-B) Teaching
experience Principal
collaborator in education projects with the Southbank
Sinfonia University
College School Junior Department, Hampstead (since September
2005): teaching
plus ensemble Berkshire
Young Musicians Trust (2004-6): Group and
individual teaching from beginner to grade 8+ standard. Also given masterclasses
on Brazilian percussion and percussion ensemble Globetown
Music Project, leading workshops at schools in East
London (2005) Trafford
Music Service, Manchester (2003/4): Samba Percussion
teacher for large class of primary school
children Teaching
privately since 1996 Other
employment Harrogate District Hospital (2002/3): cleaner Manpower
Agency (2001-3):catering, cleaning, gardening Treves Factory, Knaresborough
(2002): making car head-rests City
Catering (2000/2001): silver service |
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