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VISITING MUSIC TEACHERS WELCOME The Music School is a large and vibrant part of the Royal Hospital School. The department comprises of the Director of Music, 3 full time staff, 2 part time staff and 22 Visiting Music Teachers. The Music School has exceptional RESPECT facilities and there are many performance opportunities in the school as well for each other, your instrument and the Music as concerts in prestigious London venues and more locally in the community. The aim of this booklet is to introduce you to our inspiring and charismatic School group of Visiting Music Teachers. If, after reading it, you would like to have instrumental lessons, please contact Mrs Katy Griffiths, the Music Administrator ([email protected]) to request a form. In many DISCIPLINE cases our Visiting Music Teachers are happy to arrange a trial lesson before stop with the conductor, committing to a full term of lessons. listen to all instructions carefully Happy music making! DEDICATION a reliable musician is a busy musician TEAMWORK no one can whistle a symphony, it takes a whole orchestra to play it William Saunders Director of Music STAFF Director of Music – William Saunders Bandmaster – Richard Harvey Head of Academic Music – Edward Allen School Organist – Andrew Cantrill-Fenwick Teacher of Music Technology – James Burrows Music School Administrator – Katy Griffiths 3 What is your instrument? What is your instrument? Organ Piano What do you do musically outside of RHS? What do you do musically outside of RHS? I’m an ABRSM examiner, I conduct several choirs, work & teach I am involved musically in my local church, accompanying for for the Royal College of Organists, and give recitals in the UK and exams and occasionally accompanying for concerts. Also singing in overseas. local choirs. What is your favourite piece of music? What is your favourite piece of music? I love Franck’s organ music, but Britten’s ‘Variations & Fugue on a LESLEY Rachmaninoff Piano Sonata no 1 in D minor. ANDREW CHERRY Theme of Purcell’ always makes me smile. CANTRILL - What famous person inspires you & why? PIANO What famous person inspires you and why? FENWICK Myra Hess, for her prowess as a pianist but mostly for her JS Bach! He was a genius composer and performer, tenacious and ORGAN intelligence, determination and razor-sharp wit. hard-working. What is the best thing about working at RHS? What is the best thing about working at RHS? So many to choose from: the facilities, great colleagues and The organs and the wonderful location. enthusiastic pupils. What are your interests outside school? What are your interests outside school? History, early music, walking Dulcie & Marra, travel and food. Organise badminton for a group of players, treasurer for local cricket club, member of a book club and walking with Mutley our dog. What is your instrument? Harp What is your instrument? Piano What do you do musically outside of RHS? Member of CHROMA and freelance with most of the UK Symphony What do you do musically outside of RHS? and Chamber Orchestras. Piano recitals and recordings; I give masterclasses, examine for the ABRSM and am a Director and tutor at the Summer School What is your favourite piece of music? for Pianists; I teach at other schools in Ipswich and in the Junior This is a very tough question! But probably Eugene Onegin by Department of the Royal College of Music in London; I blog about Tchaikovsky, with Gurrelieder by Schoenberg and Tristan und Isolde HELEN piano music. by Wagner as the runners up. SHARP CHRISTINE HARP TINKER What is your favourite piece of music? What famous person inspires you and why? PIANO Lever du jour from Daphnis et Chloé by Ravel - music’s most Darcey Bussell – a true artist. beautiful sunrise. What is the best thing about working at RHS? What famous person inspires you and why? All the cakes the music staff bring in! Beethoven - triumph through adversity. What are your interests outside school? What is the best thing about working at RHS? Crewing for my husband’s gliding competitions, walking and coxing. The potential for excellence. What are your interests outside school? Horticulture and Tudor History. 4 5 What is your instrument? What is your instrument? The great highland bagpipe Violin and Piano What do you do musically outside of RHS? What do you do musically outside of RHS? Weddings, funerals, birthday parties, anniversaries, competitions, I play the violin with local orchestras and ensembles, accompany folk nights, more teaching, lessons for myself. singers and instrumentalists, have a long-standing duo with my What is your favourite piece of music? violinist brother, and teach music in another local school. Freedom Come all Ye - based on The Bloody Fields of Flanders or What is your favourite piece of music? ROD possibly Lament for Mary MacLeod. I love French piano music and song from the Impressionist period PHILIPPA CAIRD KERR What famous person inspires you and why? - some of my favourite pieces are ‘L’isle Joyeuse’ by Debussy and BAGPIPES ‘Jeux d’eau’ by Ravel. I also love the Bach Partitas - both those VIOLIN Gordon Duncan, virtuoso piper and composer, an inspiration to PIANO any piper. written for piano and for violin. What is the best thing about working at RHS? What famous person inspires you and why? That it really cares about music. Musically one of my favourite pianists is Martha Argerich - for the sheer excitement and commitment of her playing. My What are your interests outside school? grandmother was a wonderful inspiration to me - she used to sing TV production, piping...!!! us all sorts of songs and make up wonderful stories! What are your interests outside school? I love walking our black lab, Dora; cycling; spending time in Norfolk; What is your instrument? drinking coffee; and reading. Flute/Piccolo/Alto Flute/Whistles/Folk Flute What do you do musically outside of RHS? Freelance Musician - Perform with orchestras, chamber ensembles, What is your instrument? folk bands. Lead workshops in outreach settings (currently Trumpet / Cornet / Flugelhorn / Bugle musician in residence at a school for children with autism What do you do musically outside of RHS? spectrum disorder). Managing Director of the Inspired Music Agency. Freelance solo, ANNA What is your favourite piece of music? orchestral, and session trumpeter (previously working with the BBC TER HAAR Too hard to pick one! Stravinsky - Rite of Spring, Flook – Pod, Ella Philharmonic Orchestra). Composer and arranger. FLUTE PICCOLO Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - any of their duets! What is your favourite piece of music? ALTO FLUTE Mahler Symphony No 6 (having performed it at the BBC Proms, JOEL WHISTLES What famous person inspires you and why? FOLK FLUTE Katie Piper - her strength and determination following the brutal Royal Albert Hall). COOPER TRUMPET attack she suffered when sulphuric acid was thrown in her face, What famous person inspires you and why? CORNET FLUGELHORN and the way in which she now supports other burns survivors. Steve Coogan - Also hailing from Manchester, he is a genius comic BUGLE What is the best thing about working at RHS? / actor. My pupils! And the nurturing environment for music making at the What is the best thing about working at RHS? school. Working at RHS is a real privilege. The music department has such What are your interests outside school? great facilities and the pupils have so many opportunities. Music Therapy and travelling. What are your interests outside school? 6 My interests include travelling, learning French, and cooking. 7 What is your instrument? What is your instrument? Oboe and Bassoon Cello and Piano What do you do musically outside of RHS? What do you do musically outside of RHS? I am currently 2nd oboe of Bristol Symphony Orchestra, Principal I perform widely on baroque cello and viola da gamba, 40 – 50 oboe of Nottinghamshire wind band of Royal Engineers as well as gigs per year, I examine for ABRSM and I work as a mentor for oboe/cor anglais of Chineke orchestra. As well as this I do a lot of other music teachers. freelancing which includes musicals, operas and other orchestral What is your favourite piece of music? ESTHER works. Impossible to say, I listen to everything from Buxtehude to MARY WILLIAMS Bluegrass, but the greatest piece of music ever written is OBOE What is your favourite piece of music? PELLS BASSOON probably J.S. Bach’s Mass in B minor. CELLO Mahler Symphony No.2 PIANO What famous person inspires you and why? What famous person inspires you and why? Ray Charles - He went through countless struggles from a very Pope Francis because he is challenging and unafraid. early age, including turning blind at age 7. To others this can be What is the best thing about working at RHS? seen as an incapability to produce music, however he used it as Excellent facilities! a strength which pushed him to become one of the greatest soul What are your interests outside school? artists. Running. What are your interests outside school? When I have time outside of music I do enjoy swimming, fencing, What is your instrument? travelling or just simply staying at home watching Game of Classical, Electric and Bass Guitars Thrones. What do you do musically outside of RHS? What is your instrument? Outside RHS I play and sing in a Carpenters tribute band. I also Voice (Pop and Rock) take on freelance work including playing in the band for local amateur musical productions. What do you do musically outside of RHS? Recording artist working closely with industry professionals & What is your favourite piece of music? writing my own music. I also write music for TV and Film.
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