Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Tutors and Staff (A to Z)
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Lucy Russell
Baroque Violin & Viola Tutor
Lucy Russell is among the most distinguished of international violinists who have achieved eminence on both historical instruments and their 鈥榤odern鈥� counterparts, performing and recording music from Monteverdi to the present day with equal distinction and authority. She became leader of the Fitzwilliam String Quartet 聽in 1995...
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Professor Graham Sadler
Research Professor in Music
Professor Sadler is known internationally as an authority on French music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. After studying at the Universities of Nottingham and London and the Royal College of Music, he joined the Music Department at the University of Hull, where he remained as lecturer, reader and eventually...
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Professor David Saint
Organ Tutor
Professor David Saint 聽read music at Hull and Liverpool universities and gained his Fellowship of the Royal College of Organists (FRCO) diploma at the age of 20, winning the Turpin Prize for performance. His principal teachers were Alan Spedding and Dame Gillian Weir. After some years as a part time tutor, he was appointed to...
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Yvonne Sandison
Singing teacher
Yvonne Sandison was born in Cheshire, and studied at Chetham's School of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music with Frederic Cox. While at college, she won the Miriam Licette Scholarship which enabled her to further her studies in Paris under the distinguished French coach, Janine Reiss. She subsequently studied at...
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Victor Sangiorgio
Piano Tutor
鈥淧oetic Perfection鈥� was how Victor Sangiorgio鈥檚 London debut was hailed by The Times . Similar critical and public acclaim has continued to greet both his public performances and recordings. Magazines such as Gramophone have used words like 鈥榠rresistible,鈥� 鈥榯ruly outstanding鈥� and 聽鈥榮uperbly colourful鈥� to describe his...
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Paul Saunders
Multi-Instrumental Tutor
After graduating from the Royal College of Music as a Clarinettist in 1991, Paul has since become one of the busiest woodwind players on the West End circuit. A relatively new addition to the professorial staff, Paul represents a different sphere of the profession to the traditional orchestral or solo route. As a...
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Mary Savva
Visiting Lecturer
Mary Savva is a dance artist and educator based in the UK. Mary develops and makes work with vulnerable communities, children and youths in varied social sites and environments.聽 Mary is interested in community dance making, somatics and re-appraising ideas on what dance is and can be for all bodies; recently contributing to a...
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Cinzia Scafetta
Vocal and Language (Italian) Tutor
Cinzia Scafetta聽has been an Italian vocal coach at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire since 2007. Her teaching focuses on: developing awareness of the Italian language sound by means of a correct physical articulation of the phonetic apparatus; merging the socio-linguistic properties of the Italian language with the features of the...
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Rita Schindler
Principal Harp Tutor
Hungarian harpist Rita Schindler pursues a varied career as a musician and teacher. Her playing has been described as 鈥榖eguiled with a broad range of colours鈥�, and in 2019 she was appointed principal harp tutor at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. As an orchestral musician, Rita performs regularly with Birmingham Royal Ballet...
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Joanne Sealey
Head of Piano Accompaniment in Wind and Brass Studies
As well as her role as Head of Piano Accompaniment in Wind and Brass Studies, Joanne Sealey is also a Senior Tutor in Accompaniment and Coaching. Jo has become widely recognised in the UK as a specialist in woodwind and brass accompaniment and currently holds the position of Head of Accompaniment in Wind and Brass Studies at...