Rathdown Cello Gathering 2014 ! ! Rathdown Cello Gathering will take place at Rathdown Music School on ! Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th November 2014. Bringing together three ! distinguished cello teachers – Sue Lowe, Matthew Lowe and Martin Johnson ! – it offers young Irish cellists the opportunity to benefit from expert tuition through masterclasses and individual lessons. ! Each active participant in the course will receive:! • Two individual lessons with course tutors (Matthew Lowe, Sue Lowe and Martin Johnson) Rathdown • Cello Ensemble class with Martin Johnson • Cello pedagogy class for advanced students Cello Gathering • Piano accompanists for all advanced student lessons/classes • All students will perform as part of a cello ensemble in final recital on Sunday 16th! Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th November 2014 • Selected students will perform as soloists in the final recital ! Closing date for applications: Friday 17th October 2014 Masterclasses Photo credit: Individual Tuition © Cello Gathering UK, 2014 UK, Gathering Cello Ensemble Classes Faculty (International Recitalist) Matthew Lowe ! Sue Lowe (University of York and Eton College) The course will be held at Rathdown Music School, which has a purpose-built Martin Johnson (National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland) music auditorium and eight music teaching rooms, each equipped with a piano. Rathdown Music School is located on the grounds of Rathdown School, Glenageary, in south county Dublin. There is ample car parking on the school Rathdown Music School Tel: 01 201 3938 grounds and Glenageary Dart station is just a short walk away. Upper Glenageary Road Twitter: @RathdownMusic ! Glenageary [email protected] Co. Dublin www.rathdownmusicschool.ie! frequently selected as members of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. Many of her former students can be found in the leading orchestras, opera houses Rathdown and chamber groups throughout the UK, and have gone on to become excellent teachers themselves. Cello Gathering Saturday! 15th & Sunday 16th November 2014 Martin Johnson (National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland) Martin studied cello under Anna Shuttleworth – a former student of Pablo Casals, Closing date for applications: Friday 17th October 2014 Andrew Shulman and the British soloist Alexander Baillie. In 2000, he joined the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and moved to Dublin, where he was subsequently Faculty appointed Section Leader. In January 2008 Martin made his Irish debut as a soloist ! with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, performing Saint-Saëns Concerto No. 1 Matthew Lowe (International Recitalist) in A minor. Forthcoming solo engagements with the RTÉ NSO include world Matthew Lowe leads a busy and diverse musical life performing as soloist, chamber premieres of cello concerti by Ireland’s Grainne Mulvey and Frank Corcoran musician and teacher. He was a chorister at York Minster before being awarded a respectively in January and March 2015. As a soloist, Martin has given many major music scholarship to Eton College. Matt studied at the Royal College of Music performances of concerti by Elgar, Robert Schumann, Joseph Haydn, Lalo, Saint- and later was taught by Louise Hopkins at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Saëns, Sir Michael Tippett, and Ibert. He also directs a thriving class of cello students London. In 2008 he was invited to participate in the Menuhin Academy, Switzerland, as a Faculty member at the Young European Strings School of Music in Dublin. performing across Europe as a member of the Lysy Camerata. Since returning to London Matt has performed in venues such as the Wigmore Hall, St James's Piccadilly and St John’s Smiths Square. He appears regularly and tours with the BBC Course Structure The Cello Gathering is open to Intermediate (ABRSM Symphony Orchestra, as well as with English National Opera. ! Grade 3–6) and Advanced (Grade 7 up to conservatory level) cellists. Each cellist Over the last decade Matt has taught alongside some of the leading cellists in Europe should prepare two pieces in advance. at the Eton International Cello Course and the Bryanston International Cello The course tutors will work on technical and interpretative details as well as Course, and was assistant to Alexander Baillie on his summer school in Carteret, providing advice on how to prepare for performances. The Cello Ensemble class will France. He currently teaches cello and chamber music at Eton College, St Mary’s give students the opportunity to improve their ensemble playing skills in a relaxed Ascot and Junior Guildhall. He views teaching as ‘both a privilege and a pleasure’ and and fun environment. Observers are also welcome on both Saturday and Sunday aims ‘to give everyone a technical structure through which they are able to express (including the final recital on Sunday). themselves musically, whilst inspiring them to have a passion for what they do.’ Sue Lowe (University of York and Eton College) Course Fees The fees for active participants are !240 per student. Originally from Richmond, Yorkshire, Sue Lowe studied at the Royal College of ! Three Scholarships (covering 50% of fees) will be made available, and students who Music, worked as a freelance player in London and taught at the Royal College of wish to apply for one should indicate this on their application form. A deposit of Music and Chetham’s School of Music, Manchester, for some years. Sue also taught !100 is required to secure a place on the course. Observer fees are !10 per day for at Huddersfield School of Music (now part of the University), Hull University and adults (!5 for students). Cheques should be made payable to Rathdown School. has been teaching at the University of York since 1998. She is a highly sought after Payment can also be made online (by credit or debit card), through the ‘Easy teacher and currently divides her time between Eton College and her teaching Payments plus’ on the Rathdown School website (www.rathdownschool.ie). practice in York, while also giving regular masterclasses. Since the 1980s Sue has been Artistic Director of an International Cello School that Please contact Michael Quinn (details below) for inquiries or further information. meets twice a year bringing together some of the best cellists and highly acclaimed Rathdown Music School Tel: 01 201 3938 teachers in Europe – including Johannes Goritzki, Alexander Baillie, Steve Doane, Upper Glenageary Road Twitter: @RathdownMusic Louise Hopkins and others. Her courses featured in The Strad magazine and have Glenageary, [email protected] increasingly drawn students from across the world. Sue’s younger students are Co. Dublin www.rathdownmusicschool.ie!.