EDUCATION

2008 – 2010  Royal Academy of Music (RAM)                

• MA in Performance-Pending
• Professor-David Smith
• LRAM                            

2004-2008  Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM)

• BMus in Music Performance
• Professor- Jenny Curtis

2002-2004  Farnborough Sixth Form College

• 4 A-levels in Music, Chemistry, Biology, Maths. AS level in Fine Art

AWARDS

• 2009        Joyce Ann Beckett Award from the Royal Academy of Music
• 2009        Martin Musical Scholarship Fund and Philharmonia Orchestra Award
• 2009        The Crowthorne Trust Award
• 2009        Very Highly Commended-The Wolf Wolfinssohn Prize with Kaxan String Quartet
• 2007        The Hirsch Prize with the Zawadzki Trio
• 2001-4     Berkshire Music Scholar

SESSION WORK

• National Film and TV School- Soundtrack Recording
• Music Single ‘The Journey Continues….’ Ft Sarah Cracknell. Mark Brown/ CR2 Records

ORCHESTRAL EXPERIENCE-PROFESSIONAL

• Albermarle Orchestra
• BBC Symphony orchestra
• London Sinfonietta
• London Concertante
• Music Single ‘The Journey Continues’ and promotional TV appearances
• Manchester International Festival Orchestra Co-Principal
• National Film and TV School- Soundtrack Recording
• Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
• Pleiades Ensemble Principal Cellist

Collaboration with Composers            Brett Dean, Mark Antony Turnage, John Adams, Edward Gregson

ORCHESTRAL EXPERIENCE-TRAINING

• Ella Chamber Orchestra Principal Cellist
• Manchester International Festival Co Principal
• Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestras/ Concert Orchestras under conductors Yan Pascal Tortelier, Tadaaki Otaka, Sir Mark Elder and Sir Colin Davis (Co Principal)
• RNCM Chamber and Concert Orchestra Principal Cellist
• RNCM Symphony Orchestra and Opera Orchestra Co-Principal under Clark Rundell, Tecwyn Evans,  Paul Daniel, Philip Bach        
• Sinfonia Cymru Co-Principal
• University of London Symphony Orchestra Co- Principal
• Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra Principal
• Performance of 12 Angry men for 12 solo cellos with composer Brett Dean

CHAMBER MUSIC EXPERIENCE

• 2009- Present         Kaxan String Quartet
• 2004-07                  The Zawadzki Piano Trio
• 2002-Present          The Brinkwells String Quartet