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Chloë Abbott
Trumpet
Chloë Abbott is a musician and inter-disciplinary practitioner based in the UK. She completed her masters in contemporary performance, as a scholar, at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2015. Over the past three years Chloë has performed…
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Colette Overdijk
Musician, Violin
Colette Overdijk grew up in the Netherlands in the beautiful city of Amersfoort where she started playing the violin when she was seven years old. Currently she is a member of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Previously she held…
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Floris Kappeyne Trio
Piano
The Floris Kappeyne Trio was set up in 2015 by the pianist. The trio consisting of separate Prinses Christina Concours winners (2012) met in their early teenage years when the pianist invited Tijs Klaassen and Wouter Kühne to play a…
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George Koller
Musician
George Koller has accumulated hundreds of wildly diverse performing, touring and recording credits in his expansive musical career. He has performed, toured and recorded with Peter Gabriel, Holly Cole, Loreena McKennitt, Ian Tyson, David Clayton-Thomas, Phil Woods, The Shuffle Demons,…
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James Hulme
Oboe
As an oboist, James Hulme has appeared in all the major concert halls in the UK and has also performed extensively in Europe. Originally from Manchester, he studied the oboe with Anna Cooper and then with Valerie Taylor at Chetham’s…
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Jane Hyland
Cello
Jane Hyland won a scholarship to study the cello at the RCM in London. She then joined the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra becoming the BBC’s youngest ever Principal Cellist. She spent three years as Principal Cellist at the Staatstheater in…
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Jim McCarty
Musician
Jim McCarty is the renowned drummer from THE YARDBIRDS who is respected worldwide for his innovative drumming style which he introduced into music in the ’60s on hits such as “For Your Love”, “Heart Full Of Soul”, “Evil Heated You”,…
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Jonathan Martindale
Musician, Violin
Jonathan Martindale enjoys a varied career as a chamber musician, soloist, and orchestral principal. He is the Assistant Leader of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and has appeared with the orchestra throughout China and Japan as well as at…
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Leo Melvin
Cello, Musician
London-born Cellist, Leo Melvin is twenty-seven years of age. He graduated with honours from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he studied on a full scholarship, with Richard Lester. He was a member of the RCM Junior Department,…
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Levon Chilingirian
Violin
Levon Chilingirian was born in Cyprus and studied at the RCM in London. In 1971 he formed the Chilingirian Quartet which is today one of the most internationally celebrated string quartets. Levon also performs as a soloist and regularly directs…
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Michela Zanoni
Harp
Michela Zanoni has been studying the harp since she was 9. Whilst under the tuition of Noelle Vera in Monaco, Michela performed at the Rouen Harp Festival, the day of the harp in Nice and at a concert at Farmleigh…
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Rebecca Taylor
Musician, Piano
Rebecca Taylor studied music at Oxford University and the RAM, London and is increasingly in demand both as an accompanist and repetiteur. She has broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 & 4, made CD recordings and performed in venues including…
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Rhonda Bradetich
Flute
Rhonda Bradetich lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where she substitutes with the San Francisco Symphony as well as other ensembles. In 2009, she was the solo piccoloist for the Honolulu Symphony and the Hawaii Opera Theater. In 2012,…
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Ruth Harrison
Flute
Ruth Harrison studied flute on a scholarship at Guildhall School of Music & Drama, graduating with distinction in 2016. She has performed at venues around the UK including Wigmore Hall, St George’s Brandon Hill, Barbican Hall and Milton Court. In…
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Tom Reynolds
Musician
Growing up in Chicago, and then moving to Nashville after his university days, Tom Reynolds had the fortune of performing with fabulous musicians during the 1990’s before beginning his career as a professor teaching religion and theology. He worked as…
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Trond Magne Brekka
Flute
Trond Magne Brekka is the solo piccolo flutist of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. He has held the same position in the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and the Bergen Philharmonic. He studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music, the CNSMD in Paris…
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