THE
TEACHERS
Dominic Nunns (Theory)
Freelance horn-player,
conductor and composer.
Mozart Horn Concerto edition published by Barenreiter.
Tutor at Dartington International Summer School. Currently writing first
album.
Musical Director, Marylebone
Chamber Orchestra
Helen Godbolt (Cello)
Helen
grew up in Bedford and started to play the cello at the age of eight.
By 1990 she was principal cellist in the Bedfordshire Youth Orchestra.
In 1992 she performed the Dvorak Cello Concerto and was invited to play
Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata for a radio broadcast.
She studied with Bernard Gregor Smith (of the Lindsay Quartet) at Manchester
University, where she won the coveted Proctor-Gregg Prize for Solo Musical
Performance. Her quartet gave regular performances at the University and
the Whitworth Art Gallery.
She went on to study with Mats Lidstrom at the Royal Academy of Music,
where she formed the Regent String Quartet which won the Academy's J.B.McEwan
prize for the best string quartet.
Now based in London, she enjoys a varied professional career, with the
Quartet, and as a soloist, duet partner and freelance orchestral player.
Helen also teaches at Northwood College and at the Ealing Junior Music
School. Since she joined the staff here in 1999, apart from giving individual
lessons, she has been able to draw on her own extensive experience to
coach young string players in quartet playing.
Cellist with the Regent Quartet
Emily Morris (percussion)
Emily started playing
percussion at the age of 11. By the time she was 13 she had gained a scholarship
to Bryanston School and was a member of the Dorset Youth Orchestra, with
whom she toured Canada. Soon after realising she wanted to be a musician
Emily won a DfEE place at Wells Cathedral School, from where she toured
American, Germany, Belgium and Russia.
In 1999 she became a member of the National Youth Orchestra and the Wind
Orchestra of Great Britain and played in the semi-finals of the BBC Young
Musician of the Year competition. In 2001 she was given the opportunity
to perform Ney Rosauro's Marimba Concerto at the Royal Academy of Music.
Emily is now a student at the Royal College of Music, where she performs
regularly in a wide variety of ensembles.