IMPULSE MUSIC - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Soprano Soloist and Vocal Consultant
Alison Pearce has a distinguished international career as a soprano soloist in opera, oratorio and recital. She appears with the world's leading conductors and orchestras at major venues and festivals as well as broadcasting for radio and television in many countries. Vocal Professor at the Royal Academy of Music 1996 to 2010, she is presently artistic director of European summer schools for singers in Tuscany and Burgundy.
Andrew Black is a first class honours graduate in music from King's College, Cambridge and holds diplomas from the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music. His Professors included John Constable, Michael Dussek, Aaron Shorr and Richard Nunn.
Andrew Keeling is an eclectic composer, claiming his inspiration to be the combined influences of rock music, the landscapes of the English Lake District and Jung's psychology. His latest commission is the concerto'Pearl' for electric violin and orchestra.
Job Titles:
- World - Class Pianist With International Reputation
Brian Inglis studied music at the University of Durham and composition at City University, London - his MA was awarded in 1993 (along with the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers' Prize), and his PhD in 1999. His principal teachers were John Casken and Roger Redgate (Durham); Simon Holt and Rhian Samuel (City). Outside academia, he has attended the Dartington International Summer School (studying with Stephen Montague and Miguel Mera), Aberystwyth's Musicfest (studying with John Metcalfe) and the Dundaga Workshop (Latvia) in 2004.
Dal Strutt has inherited music from five previous generations of Irish and Huguenot immigrants who settled in the East End of London. Her music has an improvisatory feel as well as using "quasi" serial techniques, which owes as much to interests in Indian and African music as well as European tradition. It also reflects deeply felt philosophical and religious ideas particularly from Eastern thought.
David M. Patrick pursued his musical education at the Royal College of Music with distinction winning the Stuart Prize for organ in 1967 and going on to gain the coveted Walford Davies Prize the following year. This award brought him prestigious recitals at both Westminster Abbey and Westminster Cathedral. His recording of the complete organ works of Maurice Duruflé was listed as a Critics Choice of the Year by the BBC Music Magazine.
Dr Michael Robertson is recognised for his achievements as a performer, researcher and author of scholarly editions of baroque music. He is Visiting Research Fellow in Baroque music at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
Dr. Arthur Wills was Director of Music at Ely Cathedral from 1958 to 1990, and also held a Professorship at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1964 until 1992. He has toured extensively as a recitalist in Europe, North America, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong, and has broadcast, appeared on TV and made many recordings, both as a soloist and with the Ely Choir. He is also a prolific composer.
Elizabeth Green has extensive experience both as Teacher and Performer of music in her specialist skills of Violin and Piano. She trained at the Royal Academy of Music in London, studying with vilon with Sidney Humphreys violin and piano with Max Pirani piano. She qualified as a Graduate and further trained in Chamber Music and Composition as a Post Graduate.
Enid Luff was educated at Cambridge and the University of Wales. Welsh-speaking, she is particularly interested in poetry and literature having set texts in many languages. Other main interests include music for dance and music for amateur performers.
FRANK STILES was born in London on 2nd April 1924. He studied composition at the Guildhall School of Music, London and later at the Paris Conservatoire. He also studied the viola with Winifred Copperwheat, one of Lionel Tertis' star pupils, and was for many years a professional viola player during which time he played in all the major orchestras and under many world famous conductors.
Job Titles:
- Event Manager and Clarinettist
Geraldine Allen Events is part of Impulse Music Consultants LLP. As an high networth major charity fundraiser, Geraldine Allen has worked with industry leaders, society icons, royalty and celebrities. Her personal involvement promotes confidence, trust and aspiration, conjuring the memorable and achieving the extraordinary!
Geraldine Allen has had an extensive career as a clarinet soloist, broadcasting for BBC Radio 3 and performing internationally with a repertoire that specialised in British contemporary music. As well as her career as a performer she has been professor of clarinet for the Spanish National Youth Orchestra, examiner for the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Warden of the Private Teachers section of the Incorporated Society of Musicians. She has been an adviser to the Arts Council of England and East Midland Arts Board. Her publications include Clarinet Realities, a guide for the adult performer. Geraldine is also highly experienced in major charity fundraising (gaevents.co.uk) giving her expertise and insights into effective marketing and promotion which she applies through Impulse.
GILLIAN SKOTTOWE EARL studied piano, singing and viola and followed the G.R.S.M. course at the Royal Academy of Music. A specialist in Kodály teaching techniques, she holds the BKA Diploma (Advanced Level - accredited by the Liszt Academy, Budapest) and the Certificate of Kodály Music Education.
Heather Corbett is one of Britain's leading percussionists. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London where she was awarded numerous prizes and scholarships. She also helped develop the Percussion Department of the Junior School at the Guildhall. Heather freelanced with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London before moving to Scotland as Section Principal Percussion with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. She has played numerous concertos, appearing regularly as a soloist on BBC Radio 2.
Jennifer Fowler was born in Western Australia in 1939. During her student years at the University of Western Australia she won healthlibr.com several composition prizes and was awarded the University's Convocation Award for outstanding results. While still a student she had pieces performed in the Festival of Perth and broadcast by the ABC. In 1968 she spent a year working at the Electronic Music Studios of the University of Utrecht, on a Dutch Government scholarship. Since 1969, she has been living in London where she works as a free-lance composer.
John Hearne studied at St Luke's College, Exeter, and at University College of Wales, Aberystwyth where he gained a First Class Honours degree and a Masters degree. For a time he taught music in Iceland, and for 17 years was a lecturer at Aberdeen College of Education. He was the first Chairman of the Scottish Society of Composers, and was the Chairman of the Scottish Music Advisory Committee of the BBC from 1986 to 1990. He is now a free-lance composer, singer and conductor, and was a member of the Board of Enterprise Music Scotland from 2005-2011.
Julia Usher was educated at Cambridge and York University. Her work is strongly influenced by words and visual imagery, leading to a lively interest in cross-media works and music theatre. Julia also works as a music therapist and is involved with contemporary music network, COMA.
Kate Cuzner studied flute at the London College of Music with Rainer Schuelein, followed by jazz studies on a City of London scholarship at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She is a specialist in extended techniques incorporating electronics and is a self-publishing composer.
Kenneth Alwyn, FRAM, is the Musical Director of the Philomusica Orchestra and a composer, writer and presenter of concerts and programmes for Radio and Television. He was a principal conductor of the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden where he shared the rostrum with the luminaries working with the company at that time: Malcolm Sargent, Ernst Ansermet, Arthur Bliss, William Walton, Hans Werner Henze and Benjamin Britten.
Kenneth V. Jones is renowned for his film scores (over 40), particularly for British film in the 50s, 60s, and 70s.
Martin Dalby was born in Aberdeen in 1942. He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and in 1960 won a Foundation Scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London where he studied composition with Herbert Howells. In 1965 he was appointed as a music producer to the BBC's newly formed Music Programme (later to be Radio 3.) In 1971 he became the Cramb Research Fellow in Composition at the University of Glasgow and in 1972 returned to the BBC as Head of Music, Scotland. He now composes full time.
Nikolai Kapustin is a composing sensation. His style is classical jazz fusion - think Scriabin and Jelly Roll Morton!
His repertoire includes extensive piano music together with works for flute, violin, saxophone, cello and string quartet.
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Patricia Hanchet has a BA Honours degree in Music and a Diploma in Education, both from the University of Durham. She likes to write in a variety of styles and is also an educator who produces teaching material. In 2011 she founded the Norfolk Composers Group which has an active President in composer and pianist, Michael Finnissy.
Penelope Cave studied at the Purcell School and the Royal Academy of Music. She won the Raymond Russell prize, the National Harpsichord Competition at Southport and was a laureate of Bruges International Harpsichord Competition. She has given solo performances at the Purcell Room, the Wigmore Hall and at music clubs throughout Britain and festivals have included Flanders, Edinburgh, York, and Presteigne.
Raymond Warren studied at Cambridge University reading mathematics at first and then changing to music under Boris Ord and Robin Orr: later he studied privately with Michael Tippett and Lennox Berkeley. From 1955 -72 he taught at Queen's University, Belfast , where from 1966 he held a personal Chair in composition. Now retired, Raymond is fulfioling his ambition of being a full-time composer.
Richard Deering is a multi-talented performer. As pianist, accompanist, lecturer and adjudicator he performs and appears all across the world. He was a founder member of the ensemble Piano40 which has a unique repertoire and library of original works written for them.
Job Titles:
- Organist and Keyboard Player
Job Titles:
- Composer and Conductor
- Professional
Sarah Rodgers is a professional composer and conductor. A direct descendant of Henry Purcell, her music has been performed across the UK, as well as in Belgium, Holland, Russia, China, the USA and Australia and New Zealand. She is recorded on the SOMM label and published by OUP, Stainer&Bell, Recital Music and Impulse Edition. Her work has also been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Classic fm. Sarah is a former Chairman of BASCA (British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors) and founder and Chairman of the prestigious annual British Composer Awards from 2003 to 2013. At the forefront of supporting the rights of composers she has a particular interest in music copyright and was been a Director of the MCPS (Mechanical-copyright Protection Society Ltd.) for 17 years. In 1994 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.