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School Pro111 Personalities Evelyn Glennie, Guest Musician, was born in 1965 in Aberdeen, Scotland and began studying the piano at the age of eight . She began studying timpani and percussion at the age of 12 and at 14 became a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland, touring the UK, Faroe Islands and Scandinavia. She entered the Royal Academy of Music in 1982 to study timpani and percussion and piano, where she gained an Honours degree and her LRAM in 1985. She was awarded many prizes including the Queen's Commendation Prize for all round excellence (the highest award given by the Royal Academy of Music) . In 1984 Evelyn won the Gold Medal in the Shell/London Symphony Orchestra Music Scholarship for Timpani and Percussion. Evelyn is in increasing demand as a soloist and has performed with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Scottish National Orchestra and the City of London Orchestra. In May 1986 she gave her Wigmore Hall debut in London which was a great success. Later that year she won a Munster Trust Scholarship which enabled her to visit Japan to study with the great marimba player Keiko Abe .
Hamish Milne. Last year he distinguished himself by winning three major prizes including the Frances Simms prize awarded by the Principal for the most outstanding piano student of that year. In 1986 he graduated from the Royal Academy of Music with first class honours as well as gaining six major prizes. In July this year he won the UK Final of the European Music for Youth Prize and represents Britain at the European Final in Frankfurt next February.
Ulrike-Anima Mathe, Guest Musician , was born in 1964 in Waldshut-Hochrhein . She took her first violin lessons with Frau Erna Honigberger in Wehr and later with Frau Fran~oise Pfister-Zoldy in Basle. At the age of seventeen she passed the teacher's diploma of the Schweizer Musikpadagogen-Verband and subsequently went for further studies for a year to Dorothy DeLay in the Julliard School in New York.
Ulrike-Anima attended interpretation courses with Franco Gulli and also with Tibor Varga with whom she is at present working. Several times she took part in the State Competition "Jugend Musiziert" (Youth Makes Music), distinguishing herself with the first prize and was awarded in 1981 second prize in the Sion International Violin Competition. Ulrike-Anima takes part in concerts with various chamber and symphony orchestras at home and abroad, including the Stuttgart Baroque Orchestra and the Slovakian Philharmonic. She has played under the baton of Karl Miinchinger and Zdenek Kosler and appeared with Gerard Wyss in the Lucerne, Schwetzingen and Berlin Festivals. She has been part of a duo with the American pianist Scott Faigen for the past year.
Ken Griffin, Television Producer, started his musical training as a chorister at The Chapel Royal. At the age of 14 he joined the Army as a Band Boy with the King's Regiment (Liverpool) . Some years later, after studies at The Military School of Music (Kneller Hall), he joined the Coldstream Guards Band. In 1966 after 20 years in the Army, Ken Griffin joined BBC Television. As an Executive Producer in Television Outside Broadcasts he is responsible for a wide range of programmes including Brass Band Competitions, Variety Club Awards, World Dancing Championships, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, The Southampton International Boat Show and of course the Schools Prom, with which he has been associated since 1975.
James Kirby, Guest Musician , won a major music scholarship to Oundle School where he played piano, organ and percussion and became a Junior Student at the Royal Academy of Music in London in 1977, studying piano with Jean Anderson. During this time, he received many awards including the Louise Band and Sybil Barlow prizes. In 1982 he was runner-up in the "Surrey Young Pianist of the Year Award". In 1983 he won an open Scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music where he studied with 1S