Education
Specialist in Performance & Master of Music – Cello, University of Michigan School of Music with Professor Erling Blondal Bengtsson 96-99.
Bachelor of Music in Performance – Cello, Guildhall School of Music with Professor Leonard Stehn 92 – 96
Awards and prizes
Aspen Music Festival Fellowship recipient, Summer 99
University of Michigan Fellowship covering tuition and stipend 97-99
University of Michigan Concerto Competition winner with the Walton Concerto – Winter 98
Concert Repertoire
Bach: Cello Suites, Gamba Sonatas.
Beethoven: Triple Concerto, Sonatas, Variations.
Bloch: From a Jewish Life.
Boccherini: Concerto (Gruetzmacher arrangement) in Bb.
Brahms: Double Concerto, Sonatas 1 & 2.
Bruch: Kol Nidrei.
Chopin: Sonata, Introduction and Polonaise Brillante.
Davidoff: Concerto in B minor.
Debussy: Sonata.
Dvorak: Concerto, Silent Woods.
Elgar: Concerto.
Fauré: Élégie, Sicilienne, Sérénade.
Franck: Sonata.
Haydn: Concertos in C & D.
Koppel: Ternio.
Martinu: Slovak Variations, Rossini Variations.
Prokofiev: Sonata.
Rachmaninoff: Sonata, Vocalise.
Saint-Saëns: Concerto No. 1, The Swan, Allegro Appassionato.
Schostakovich: Concerto No. 1, Sonata.
Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata.
Schumann: Concerto, Fantasiestücke, Adagio & Allegro.
Takemitsu: Orion.
Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variations, Pezzo Capriccioso.
Walton: Concerto.
Freelance Orchestral
Bergen Philharmonic
Orchestra of the Swan
BBC Concert Orchestra
London Concert Orchestra
London Mozart Ensemble
London Baroque Ensemble
London Soloists Chamber Orchestra
Jupiter Symphony- New York
Aspen Festival Orchestra and Opera Orchestra – Colorado US
New World Symphony – Miami US
Ensemble Membership
N8 Ensemble
Ensemble Fyn, Denmark
Kingsland Chamber Players.
London Baroque Ensemble.
Sound Clock Ensemble, New York
Brave New Works Ensemble, Ann Arbor Michigan US
Music Festivals and Symposia
London Cello Society ‘Go Cello’.
Aspen Music Festival – Colorado US, Studies with Eric Kim and Alan Harris
Midwest Composers’ Symposium – Iowa City.