Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Tutors and Staff (A to Z)
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Chris Orton
Recorder Tutor
Chris Orton is active as a recorder player, teacher and conductor throughout Europe. He teaches recorder at the Royal Northern College of Music senior and junior departments, Chetham’s School of Music and at the Birmingham Conservatoire. As as conductor, he works with the Stockport Youth Orchestra, the National Youth Recorder...
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Ms Elizabeth Pallett
Lute, Theorbo and Early Guitar Tutor
Elizabeth Pallett studied at The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and went on to complete a postgraduate course in Historical Performance at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, under the tutelage of world-renowned lutenist Nigel North. She has since gone on to work with a significant number of well-known early...
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Tim Palmer
Percussion Tutor (Solo and Ensemble)
Tim joined Birmingham Conservatoire as a Percussion student, enrolling on the BMus(Hons) course in September, 2000. He had much success in various Conservatoire competitions including first prize in the Annual Birmingham Conservatoire Percussion Competition and first prize in the Doris Newton Music Club Prize. Tim was also a...
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Andy Panayi
Visiting Tutor
Andy Panayi is an exceptionally gifted jazz musician, skilled in performance, composition and arranging. He plays all the flutes, all the saxophones & clarinet and currently leads his own groups, both jazz and classical. Andy has performed and recorded with many singers such as Shirley Bassey, Jessye Norman, Paul McCartney,...
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Joanna Patton
Clarinet & Eb Clarinet Tutor
Joanna Patton comes from the Wirral. She studied at Chetham's School of Music before gaining her honours degree and performance diploma at the Royal Northern College of Music . She has performed numerous concertos with various orchestras including the Tomasi concerto as part of the Aix-en-Provence festival, the Mozart...
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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 MPhil, at the University of Birmingham, he studied...
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Caroline Pether
Visiting Tutor - Violin
Caroline is the Leader of Manchester Camerata, often assuming the role of Soloist and/or Director with the orchestra. Chamber music sensibilities are at the heart of Caroline’s music-making; she enjoys a regular duo partnership with Camerata's principal cellist Hannah Roberts and guest leads chamber music projects and chamber...
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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 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. She studied contemporary music at the Britten Pears School with Oliver Knussen and Rosemary Hardy. ...