Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Tutors and Staff (A to Z)
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Sean Pepper
Trumpet Tutor
Sean studied trumpet at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire under Alan Thomas (CBSO, BBC Concert Orchestra), holding the position of principal trumpet with the college Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia, Brass Ensemble, and Wind Orchestra throughout his undergraduate study, and graduating in 2011. After winning a scholarship for...
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Chloe Percy-Smith
Saxophone Tutor
Chloe is a Midlands-based saxophonist who studied for her undergraduate and Master鈥檚 degrees at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Upon graduating with distinction, she was awarded the Musicians Union Bill Warman Award and the Postgraduate Pedagogy Award. Chloe is currently the Saxophone Tutor for the Junior Department of...
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Dr Martin Perkins
Head of Historical Performance, Senior Lecturer and Instrument Curator
Martin Perkins started his undergraduate studies at Birmingham Conservatoire in 1993 where he studied composition and French Horn. However, his interest in Early Music soon led him to the harpsichord and, after studies with Lucy Carolan, he graduated with an MA in 1998. For his聽MPhil, at the University of Birmingham, he studied...
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Jenni Phillips
Head of Woodwind
Jenni Phillips studied at the Purcell School and the Royal College of Music with Michael Winfield. She then went on to win a Countess of Munster Scholarship to study at the National Centre for Orchestral Studies. Soon after leaving NCOS, she was appointed as 2nd Oboe in the聽 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra where she...
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Dr Matthew Pilcher
Lecturer in Music
Dr Matthew Pilcher graduated from the University of Idaho in 2001 with degrees in Applied Performance: Piano (BA, cum laude ) and Music History and Literature (BA, cum laude ). Further studies at the University of Idaho culminated in an MMus in Piano Pedagogy and Performance Studies (2005, distinction) and an MA in Music...
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Jacqueline Pischorn
German language coach
Jacqueline Pischorn was born in Austria and studied singing at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Graz and at Trinity College of Music in London where she worked with conductors Diego Masson and Peter Stark.聽 She studied contemporary music at the Britten Pears School with Oliver Knussen and Rosemary Hardy. ...
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Ian Porthouse
Director of Brass Band Studies & Cornet Tutor
Ian Porthouse began his musical career aged nine with Flimby Saxhorn Silver Band and he was a founder member of the Cumbria Youth Brass Band. Ian became principal cornet of Leyland Vehicles Band aged 17 and also led the National Youth Brass Band for three years. A move to Desford Colliery with James Watson proved to be the...
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Jeremy Price
Head of Jazz
Jeremy Price (born 1970) studied at Birmingham Conservatoire and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and has since followed a career as a freelance trombonist and jazz educator. Jeremy has been Head of Jazz at Birmingham Conservatoire since the Jazz Department was established in 1999 and wrote the Conservatoire's first ever...
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Amber Priestley
Visiting Tutor in Composition
The focus of Amber鈥檚 practice is derived from the meeting points found in the act of聽 collaboration. As both composer and sound designer, she is particularly interested in musicians who perform both music and theatre, often using open-form scores, in order to provide situations where time is not fixed. Some recent...
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Ed Puddick
Lecturer in Jazz
Ed Puddick is an award-winning jazz arranger and composer who has been part of the UK jazz scene since graduating from the Birmingham Conservatoire in 2004. His Ed Puddick Big Band was formed in 2002 and its debut album 鈥楪uys & Dolls鈥� was released in 2010 on Diving Duck Records. Ed has written for the BBC Concert Orchestra...