Staff
Piano
Shelagh Sutherland ARAM LRAM MSTAT String Chamber Music
Felicity Lipman LRAM MSTAT HonFRAM
Kindergarten
Cyrilla Rowsell
Cello
Marilyn Rees BMus
BEd Adv Dip(British Kodaly Academy)
Conductors Bands
Senior Management Head of Junior Guildhall
Derek Rodgers LTCL GTCL PGCE Head of Junior Music Courses
Alison Mears BMus PGCE Matthew Down BMus Head of Academic Studies
Robert Pell GTCL LTCL ALCM Head of Strings
William Bruce ARCM
Spencer Down BMus Matthew Down BMus
Gillian Thoday LRAM Double Bass
Dip Mus Th ALCM MSc BA PGCE
String Ensembles
ARAM DipRAM GRSM LRAM ProfCert
Music Course Teaching Staff
*indicates a teacher who teaches Junior Guildhall students during the week but not on Saturdays
Paula Duff Music Officer
James Wilson BA Co-ordinators Brass
Spencer Down BMus Composition
Jeffery Wilson GRSM Percussion
Rob Farrer LGSM BMus
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Flute/Piccolo
String Chamber Music Consultant
Caroline Li Lisa Nelsen BMus PGDip Matthew Robinson Kate Walter MMus BMus
Jeremy Menuhin
Oboe/Cor Anglais
Coaches
Rachel Broadbent BMus Helena Gaunt* PhD BA MA LGSM Rebecca Wood BMus Post Dip Orch Training
Violin
Administrator
Elizabeth Hosford GGSM LGSM Colin Paris* Lachlan Radford BMus
Julian Clayton Harp Jessica O’Leary BMus DipCSM LTCL(Perf) LRAM Ruth Faber ARCM Charlotte Seale ARCM Premier Prix Symphony Orchestra Julian Clayton Guitar Spencer Down BMus Associate Conductor Mark Eden
Administrative Assistant
Administration
1st PRIZE Conservatoire National Superieur de Paris
Peter Asprey MA Adv PGDip Marek Maryniak
Christopher Poon
Robert Porter GGSM LRAM
William Bruce ARCM Selma Gokcen BMus MMus DMA Tim Lowe BMus MMus Stefan Popov* FGS Margaret Powell DSCM ASCM Geneviève Teulières-Sommer
Choirs
Emanuela Buta MA DipRAM LRAM Eulalie Charland BMus MMus Alda Dizdari BMus MMus Rebecca Knight BMus MMus Kate Lindon BMus PGDip Felicity Lipman LRAM MSTAT HonFRAM Belinda McFarlane BMus Maureen Parrington ARCM Margaret Powell DSCM ASCM Robert Turrell FTCL LTCL Daisy Vatalaro BA MA
Head of Wind, Brass & Percussion
Viola
Matthew Jones* Sebastian Müller BMus Robert Turrell FTCL LTCL Faith Whiteley LRAM
Vocal
Junior Guildhall has over 110 experienced and inspirational teachers, many of whom are members of major professional orchestras in the UK and many also teach in the senior department of the Guildhall School. An up-to-date list of staff can be found on the School website: gsmd.ac.uk/juniors
Krzysztof Smietana* FGS Sara Trickey BA PGDip Faith Whiteley LRAM
Anna-Liisa Bezrodny BMus MMus PGDip Patricia Birchall ARCM BMus Iwona Boesche MA PGDip Alda Dizdari BMus MMus Arisa Fujita* BMus Ruth Hahn AGSM Advanced Solo Studies Matthew Jones* Boris Kucharsky ARCM MM AD Felicity Lipman LRAM MSTAT HonFRAM Sebastian Müller BMus Jessica O’Leary BMus DipCSM LTCL(Perf) LRAM Gabrielle Painter MMus BMus LRAM
Clarinet/Bass Clarinet
Neyire Ashworth AGSM Advanced Solo Studies Dip
Derek Hannigan AGSM LRSM Peter Sparks MA LGSMD(P) LRAM Bassoon/Contra Bassoon
Graham Hobbs PGDip BMus LGSMD Robert Porter GGSM LRAM Saxophone
Christian Forshaw* BMus Sarah James BMus LRAM DipRAM Paul Stevens BMus ARCM GGSM Jazz Saxophone
Oliver Weston BA PDMPerf Recorder
Elisabeth Kerr BMus Trumpet/Cornet
John Macdomnic GGSM Andrew Mitchell ARCM