Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Tutors and Staff (A to Z)
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Professor Ronald Woodley
Emeritus Professor of Music
After graduating with first-class honours from the University of Manchester, specializing in Musical Palaeography and Performance, and with Distinction in clarinet from the Royal Northern College of Music, Professor Ronald Woodley completed his DPhil in 15th-century music theory from Keble College, Oxford. After...
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Alex Woods
Visiting Tutor
Alex Woods is an accomplished and multi award winning saxophonist, composer and arranger from the United Kingdom. As a performer, he has collaborated with multiple Grammy award winning artists such as Jamie Cullum and Charlotte Church. Alex has toured extensively throughout Europe and has performed in some of the world's top...
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Peter Wynne-Willson
Early Years Specialist Tutor
Peter is a highly experienced Applied Theatre practitioner, who before taking up his current post has had more than thirty years experience as a writer, director and performer in Young People’s Theatre, Theatre-in-Education and Community Theatre.
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Di Xiao
Piano Tutor
Described as “a pianist of awesome gifts" and compared to Clara Schumann by the press, the Chinese pianist Di Xiao recently concluded a major international recital tour representing the UK as part of the universally acclaimed European Concert Halls Organisation (ECHO) 'Rising Stars' series. The tour included sell out concerts...
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Helen Yorke
Vocal Coach
Critically acclaimed as both a recitalist and a vocal coach, Helen Yorke performed with Renée Fleming throughout America as well as Europe for more than a decade. In 1991 she arrived in New York to take up the position of German Lyric Diction and opera/song coach at the Julliard School . Thereafter, she co-ordinated the...
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Marie-Christine Zupancic
Flute Tutor
Marie-Christine Zupancic is Section Leader Flute of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Born in Oberhausen (Germany) in 1979, Marie-Christine grew up in the Lower Rhine Area and started playing the flute and the piano at the age of eight. After winning numerous prizes in the German Youth competition 'Jugend Musiziert'...