Sarah Bennington (Flute 2009)
Pippa Cleary (Junior Guildhall 2004)
Sarah has been appointed 2nd Flute Principal at Scottish Opera.
Pippa won the 2013 Arts Foundation Fellowship award for Composition for Musicals.
Koji has won 1st Prize at the Les Azuriales Opera YAP 2013 competition.
Alexander Campkin (Junior Guildhall 2001)
Peter Foggitt (Piano 2012)
Elizabeth Walker (Flute 1989)
Peter won the Accompanist’s Prize at the 2013 Kathleen Ferrier Awards.
Elizabeth was recently invited by the Canadian Flute Convention to present a recital on her original Louis Lot flute from 1859, accompanied by the pianist Richard Shaw. Elizabeth appeared live on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune last August, ahead of her recital at the British Flute Society convention.
Ben Gernon (Tuba 2011, Conducting 2012)
Over the last two years my music has received 160 performances or broadcasts. Highlights include Swedish ensemble Serikon recording and touring my Colour blinds the eye, a commission supported by the Swedish Arts Council. My Awake, in Chorus commissioned by the Royal Opera House was performed in the Paul Hamlyn Hall ROH, Covent Garden. The Tallis Scholars broadcast my O magnum mysterium across Europe, Australia and New Zealand. My solo organ piece Solar Flare was performed in eight music festivals in Europe, and my Cycles of Time commissioned for contemporary dance was toured, and excerpts broadcast on BBC Television.
Mike Christie (Baritone/Bass 2004) Mike has written the libretto and score for a new opera The Miller’s Wife that premieres in the Grimeborn Festival at the Arcola Theatre this summer. www.themillerswife.co.uk
In May 2013 Ben conducted Camerata Salzburg in a programme of Maxwell Davies, Mozart and Beethoven to win the prestigious Nestlé and Salzburg Festival Young Conductors Award. Ben was awarded €15,000 and the opportunity to lead a summer concert at the prestigious Salzburg Festival on August 17 with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra.
Albert Horne (Repetiteur 2007) Albert is Chorus Master for Cape Town Opera which won the Best Chorus Award at the inaugural Opera Awards earlier this year.
Steven Hudson (Oboe 2006 and Oboe Professor) Steven has been appointed Principal Oboe at Northern Sinfonia.
Jocelyn Pook (Viola 1982)
Koji Terada (Opera 2011)
After winning her second BASCA British Composer Award, Jocelyn Pook has enjoyed two high-profile premieres in as many months. She reunited with choreographer Akram Khan, following their awardwinning stage show DESH, for a new collaboration, iTMOi (‘in the mind of Igor’) at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, marking the centenary of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. This was followed a month later with Trees, Walls, Cities – a song cycle with the Brodsky Quartet and mezzosoprano Loré Lixenberg which featured music by nine different composers and was performed as part of the City of London Festival. Jocelyn’s soundtrack to DESH is now out on CD, plus she is rereleasing her album Untold Things.
Elizabeth is a regular contributor to the PAN magazine, writing articles about historically informed performances of baroque music on a modern flute and in the celebratory June edition, looked back at the last 30 years of the baroque flute, with reference to her studies at Guildhall School and the study that is provided today: www.bfs.org.uk/flutejournal.php Elizabeth’s new baroque flute study book ‘Tone Through Interpretation’ will be published shortly by WonderfulWinds.com
Zhiying Wei (Trombone 2011) Mike Simpson (Percussion 1999) Mike’s company Inspire-works has teamed up with the Street Child World Cup charity, the Royal Albert Hall, Arts Award and Drum & Bass record label Hospital Records to facilitate a samba music programme in schools culminating in a performance at the Royal Albert Hall in early March 2014 which will include a Guinness World Record attempt for the World’s Largest Samba Band!
Zhiying has been appointed 2nd Trombone in the Beijing National Centre for the Performing Arts Symphony Orchestra.
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