| Jessica is currently pursuing postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Music where she studies flute with Jaime Martin and Daniel Pailthorpe and baroque flute with Rachel Brown. Since coming to London, Jessica has performed with orchestras from the Royal College of Music in venues such as Queen Elizabeth Hall and Cadogan Hall, the London Handel Orchestra on baroque flute and participated in the London Symphony Orchestra's Side-by-Side Scheme. Originally from Australia, Jessica graduated with First Class Honours from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2006. During her degree, she was awarded a University of Sydney Undergraduate Scholarship and recognised on the Dean's List of Excellence for Academic Achievement. She has appeared as a concerto soloist with the Sydney Youth Orchestra on a number of occasions and was also a member of the Australian Youth Orchestra. Before coming to London to further her studies, Jessica worked professionally as an Extra Player with the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra. |
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Flavia was born in Berlin where she was a student at the C. P. E. Bach Music School before moving to the UK in 2006. She currently studies the modern flute at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Sarah Newbold and Philippa Davies and the baroque flute with Katy Bircher. In her second year at the Guildhall School she was one of the soloists performing Telemann's Tafelmusik in A-Major under the direction of Pavlo Beznosiuk. Flavia is a keen chamber and orchestral musician and performs regularly with her flute, viola and harp trio the Bilitis Ensemble. Concerts have included a performance of the Trio Elegiac by Arnold Bax in LSO St. Luke's in November 2011. Orchestral experiences range from playing with the Berlin Youth Orchestra for 2 years to being a member of the Junge Festspiele Bayreuth, a chamber music and symphony orchestra course based in Germany, in august 2011. Last year she was awarded a place on the prestigious flute academy NeFlAc where she had lessons and master classes with Emily Beynon. Other master classes include Jacques Zoon, Walter Auer, Paul Edmund-Davies and Michel Belavance. Flavia is also a founder member of the London Traverso Club supported by Lisa Beznosiuk.
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Penelope began her baroque oboe studies with James Eastaway in her final year of her undergraduate degree as a TCL scholar at Trinity College of Music. After a successful audition she was invited to perform with the TCM Baroque Ensemble’s production of Handel’s Giustino under the direction of Philip Thorby. She studied modern oboe under the tutelage of Josephine Lively and Christopher O’Neal and graduated with a BMus (Hons) in 2009. Penelope has performed with a variety of ensembles throughout Great Britain, including the Little Baroque Company, Brandenburg Sinfonia, and is the current principal oboe of the Holborne Players and the Amadè Players. She was also invited to play with the baroque orchestra of the Royal Academy of Music in their production of Handel’s Semele under the baton of the late Sir Charles Mackerras. Now in her final year of Masters in Orchestral Performance at the Royal College of Music, Penelope is studying modern oboe under David Theodore, Christopher Cowie, and cor anglais with Christine Pendrill, and was the recipient of the Evelyn Rothwell Oboe prize in 2011. She has participated in the Kent Early Music Festival with the RCM Baroque Ensemble and performed Vivaldi’s Concerto for Violin, Flute, Oboe and Bassoon in the Historical Performance Faculty’s Il Pretto Rosso concert.
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Born and educated in Belfast, Sarah recently graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with First Class Honors. During her time in London, Sarah has performed in various London venues including the Barbican, St Martin-in-the-Field and Kings Place. An active chamber musician Sarah has recently toured Bulgaria and Ireland with the Siskin Trio. Recently Sarah was the soloist with the newly formed Odyssey Symphony Orchestra in St James' Piccadilly. Other solo experience includes performances of Stravinksy's Ebony Concerto and Berstein's Prelude, Fugue and Riffs in the Barbican (with the Guildhall Ubu ensemble). In 2007 she was the inaugural winner of the Bank of Ireland's Catherine Judge Memorial award. Sarah is also the recipient of an RPO Sir John Barbarolli Award, the English Speaking Union Menuhin Banff Scholarship and a Northern Ireland Arts Council travel bursary. This summer Sarah was selected as a participated for the LSO Wind Academy. Sarah also attended the International Banff Chamber Music course and the Apeldoorn International Music Festival. Sarah is now continuing her studies at the Guildhall on the Masters program on a scholarship. Sarah is extremely grateful to The Kathleen Trust and The Worshipful Company of Haberdashers for making her studies possible. |
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