Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Tutors and Staff (A to Z)

Jonathan French

Senior Tutor in Accompaniment

Jonathan French's work at the Conservatoire involves accompanying students for recitals, exams, competitions and auditions, as well as teaching and coaching. Away from the Conservatoire, he is a freelance concert pianist and accompanist. His performances have included piano concertos with various orchestras including the City...

Dr Devorina Gamalova

Violin & Viola Tutor

The Bulgarian-German musician Devorina Gamalova obtained her violin performing and teaching diplomas from the Music Academies in Sofia (Bulgaria) and Dresden (Germany), PG certificates from RCM and GSMD in London and in 2008 was awarded a PhD degree outright from the University of West London. Among her professors were Grigory...

Dr Bobbie-Jane Gardner

Lecturer in Composition

Bobbie-Jane Gardner’s music has been described as “lyrical”, “harmonically subtle and rhythmically agile” and often takes as inspiration the sound worlds of jazz, Hip-Hop, soul and funk. She has received commissions from the CBSO, LSO, Spitalfields Music, Onyx Brass, G Plus Ensemble, Wild Plum Arts and others. Collaboration...

Max Garrard

Performance Coach and Mentor

Max plays Fourth Horn with Welsh National Opera, having been previously based at Opera North (2010-2019). As a freelance musician (2002-2010), Max was based in London and regularly worked with orchestras including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Royal Opera House. ...

Peter Glenville

Clarinet Tutor

Peter studied clarinet at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and then completed his studies at the Royal College of Music, on the Postgraduate Performance Diploma course. Since then, he has performed in countries across the world. He has received numerous scholarships and awards, including First Prize in the Shell Chamber Music...

Hervé Goffings

Hervé Goffings is a native French speaker living in London. He specialises in providing French language coaching to singers. Hervé studied classical singing at the Royal Northern College of Music, followed by a n MA in Musical Theatre (Performance) at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He is a French language coach for...

Beetung Goo

Assistant Director of Postgraduate Studies (Director of International Student Support Programme)

Beetung is the  Assistant Director of Postgraduate Studies (Director of International Student Support Programme)  at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. She joined the staff as International Student Mentor in 2014, soon after completing her master’s degree here. The learning experience of international students is central to...

Andrew Gough

Classical Guitar Tutor | Theory Tutor

Andrew Gough studied classical guitar at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire with Simon Dinnigan throughout his undergraduate BMus (Hons) course. He then continued his Master of Arts postgraduate studies at RBC with Mark Ashford. During his time at the Conservatoire Andrew also won numerous competitions including the RBC Guitar...

Owen Gunnell

Percussion Tutor (Solo and Ensemble)

Owen graduated from the Royal College of Music in 2003 and then became a Junior Fellow from 2004-2006. Since, Owen has had an extremely varied career, appearing as a soloist with orchestras such as the BBC Symphony, BBC Concert, Melbourne Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, Philharmonia, Sinfonia Viva, Macedonian Symphony, Britten...