Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Tutors and Staff (A to Z)
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Dr Andy Ingamells
Research Assistant and Visiting Tutor
Andy Ingamells is composer-performer of experimental music. His work is rooted in traditional elements of music making and classical concert conventions but implemented in a different way. Traditional elements such as score-reading, performance and improvisation often do not give way to recognisably musical material. His is a...
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Shanti Jayasinha
Senior Lecturer in Jazz’
Shanti Jayasinha is a highly sought after Jazz and World multi-instrumentalist and an extremely experienced educator. Based in London since 1986, he has worked in all types of musical situations at the highest level in the Jazz, Latin, Brazilian, African, other World music fields. As a trumpeter he has worked in Reggae, Soca,...
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Rose Johnson
Vocal Tutor
British Soprano Rose Johnson is a varied performer appearing as a soloist for oratorios, recitals, concerts and staged productions in the UK. Currently, Rose is a Young Artist on British Youth Operas Serena Fenwick programme. She performs regularly with Birmingham Opera Company and runs workshops in community settings across...
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Edward Jones
Head of Brass and Trombone Tutor
Edward Jones is a former Principal Trombone of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. He was born in Aberystwyth, Wales, in 1984, and began playing the trombone at the age of nine. By the time he was 13, Edward was Principal Trombone of the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain, and he later held the same position with...
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Sharona Joshua
Fortepiano Tutor
Israeli-born Sharona Joshua studied piano with the late Professor Alexander Volkov in Israel, fortepiano with the late Christopher Kite at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, harpsichord with Richard Egarr and David Roblou in London, and historical piano with specialist Sally Sargent in Vienna. Sharona now...
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Toby Kearney
Head of Percussion
Toby Kearney is Principal Percussion and Timpani of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, regularly appears as principal percussion of Britten Sinfonia and is a member of O Duo with Owen Gunnell. Since winning the percussion category of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition in 2006 Toby has had an extremely...
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Grahame King
Percussion Tutor (Timpani)
Grahame has been Principal Timpanist with the Royal Ballet Sinfonia, the orchestra of the Birmingham Royal Ballet since 1998. Additionally, he regularly plays as guest Principal Timpanist with most of London’s top orchestras, touring extensively throughout Europe, America and Asia. On the concert platform and in recording...
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Miriam Kitchener
Percussion Tutor
Miriam Kitchener is a percussionist, educator and animateur based in Birmingham. She graduated with Distinction from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in 2018, with a Masters degree in Percussion Performance. Since then, she has gone on to perform regularly with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Opera North, The Royal...
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Annabel Knight
Head of Recorder
Recorder player and historical flautist Annabel Knight enjoys a wide-ranging career as performer, teacher, arranger, and editor. She is a founder member of the baroque ensemble Passacaglia , with whom she has toured internationally and recorded albums featuring Telemann, C. P. E. Bach, Boismortier, Arne, Dornel, and...
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Anette Kormann
Dalcroze Eurythmics Tutor
Anette Kormann studied flute, first with Ingeborg Axner-Franzen at Kapellsberg Musicskola in Sweden, and then at RBC with Colin Lilley. At RBC, she won the Concerto Prize and the Ludlow Philharmonic Prize, and was runner up in the BMI Woodwind Competition. Alongside flute, Anette studied recorder with Annika Lyne, and...