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On March 16th Sarah Hedley-Miller played the Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations at our concert in support of the Alzheimer's Society
Sarah Hedley – Miller has for many years been a full time member of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. She also plays chamber music with her Harp Quintet the Dore Ensemble and with the Torriano ensemble. With the BBCSO she has travelled all over the world including last year a trip to the Far East. This enabled her to spend her 50th birthday biking to and walking along the Great wall of China, and on walking in to the hotel bar in Shanghai the next day, was greeted with a surprise party with the whole orchestra dressed in gold.
When rather younger, Sarah studied at the Royal College of Music with Eileen Croxford and then spent 2 years studying in Vienna under the great cello pedagogue Andre Navarra. On returning home she was given a job in the City of Birmingham Symphony orchestra and was lucky enough to have played many memorable concerts under their then chief conductor Sir Simon Rattle. The principal cellist at that time Michal Kaznowski having given her the job then decided to marry her. He is now the cellist in the renown Maggini String Quartet. They have been married for 20 years and have 2 children. Her greatest achievement to date, occurred recently when visiting her son while he was working in a Ski Chalet during his gap year. Under his guidance and after only 4 days skiing, he guided her safely down a red slope!
Sarah has a sister, Rosalind, who plays bassoon in the London Medical Orchestra.
On 17 December 2006 Thomas Gould returned to play the Beethoven Violin Concerto. It was a stunning performance. Thomas Gould has become one of the country's leading young violinists and even in the few months between his two concerts with us he had built up a very busy schedule of concerts in the UK and Europe including Italy and Austria.
On 2nd April 2006 our guest soloist was Thomas Gould. He gave a stunning performance of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor
....about Thomas Gould Violin
Thomas Gould enjoys a busy and varied career as soloist, chamber musician and orchestral leader. Thomas studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Gyorgy Pauk, graduating in 2005 with First Class Honours and gaining numerous awards and prizes. Whilst at the Royal Academy of Music, Thomas was chosen to lead all of its orchestras under many distinguished conductors, including Alexander Lazarev, Tadaaki Otaka, Thierry Fischer and Nicholas Braithwaite. In September he will lead the joint symphony orchestras of the Academy and the Juilliard School for a performance in the BBC Proms conducted by Sir Colin Davis at the Royal Albert Hall. Thomas has been a prize-winner in international competitions such as the European Music Prize for Youth (1999) and the Tunbridge Wells International Young Concert Artists (2004).
Thomas is first violinist and a founding member of the Artea Quartet, which won the Philharmonia Orchestra/Martin Musical Scholarship Fund Ensemble Award in 2004 and was selected for the Tillett Trust’s Young Artists’ Platform in 2005. He has recorded works by Herbert Howells and Howard Thomas on the Meridian label, and by Webern and Stravinsky for the RAM.
On 25 March 2007, Ben our former principal Cellist played Elgar's Cello Concerto in celebration of the composer's 150th Anniversary.
Ben Stevens
Ben Stevens started playing the cello at the age of nine when his parents bought him a second hand cello for Christmas. He had lessons with Helen Corkhill and completed grades 3, 5 and 7 to gain a place at the Purcell School of Music with the help of a GAP Scholarship. He studied under Pal Banda and Michal Kaznowski and became principal cellist of the Bedfordshire County Youth Orchestra, Purcell School Chamber and Symphony Orchestras. In 2002 Ben continued his studies with Alexander Boyarsky at the Royal College of Music where he gained a BMus (Hons) in 2006. He has played in many concerts during his four years at the RCM including Prokofiev's Synfonia Concertante with the Bedfordshire 2nd Youth Orchestra in Glasgow and Edinburgh at the NAYO Festival 2003. In May 2004 he played the famous Shostokovich Cello Concerto No 1 with the Bedford Sinfonia conducted by Sir Michael Rose. Ben is currently a Sir John Ackroyd Postgraduate Scholar working on a Diploma in Performance.
