Leading Notes Chamber Music Courses
3-Day Non-Residential Chamber Music Courses for Advanced & Improving String Players (Grade 4–8+)
3-Day Non-Residential Chamber Music Courses for Advanced & Improving String Players (Grade 4–8+)
Leading Notes Chamber Music Courses are 3-day non-residential holiday courses (please bring a packed lunch) for improving and advanced string players.
Each course offers high quality tuition from experienced professional tutors for talented young musicians as they develop their chamber music experience.
Our courses offer improving as well as more advanced string players the opportunity to make new friends, play exciting music and be inspired by our wonderful tutors as they continue to learn how to play chamber music.
Dates: Monday 5th – Wednesday 7th April 2027
Daily Timetable: 9.30am – 4.00pm
Venue: Merchant Taylors’ School (Music Department), Sandy Lodge, Northwood, Middlesex, HA6 2HT
Final Concert: Wednesday 7th April at 5.30pm (Recital Hall, Merchant Taylors’ School)
Course Type: 3-Day Non-Residential (Please bring a packed lunch)
Level: Grade 4 to 8+
Over three days you will develop your ensemble skills, studying works from the rich repertoire of string chamber music by great composers.
You will explore, rehearse and perform works in chamber groups, receiving regular expert coaching and honing your leadership skills as chamber musicians.
The course culminates in a concert on the final day.
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Director of Music at Merchant Taylors’ School. He studied at Trinity College of Music, London with Liz Turnbull and has over 25 years' experience in conducting orchestras and coaching chamber music.
He composes regularly for choirs and instrumental ensembles, and in recent years has enjoyed premieres of his work in venues including St John’s Smith Square, Southwark Cathedral, the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, Symphony Hall Birmingham, and St Paul’s Cathedral.
Combines cello teaching with a busy freelance career. She studied with Florence Hooton and Lionel Handy at the Royal Academy of Music, before continuing her studies in Germany and Vienna as a Martin Musical Scholar with Johannes Goritzki, Arto Noras and William Pleeth in London.
She has worked regularly with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the Philharmonia, City of London Sinfonia and the London Symphony Orchestra. From 2001 to 2005 she was cellist of the Fitzwilliam String Quartet, performing and giving masterclasses worldwide.
Additional professional chamber musicians are invited to coach ensembles as guest tutors on our courses.
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