Dilettante Music

Hello,

I'm an amateur musician, and have been working as Dilettante's Marketing Co-ordinator for the past year or so now.

I've been playing the piano since I was about six or seven, then just picked up other instruments on the way. I've got Grade 8 piano and flute but my favourite instrument to play has always been the violin because I love being part of a string section in an orchestra.

I studied music at Sheffield University and recently finished a Masters in Arts Administration and Cultural Policy at Goldsmiths. I've never been interested in being a solo performer and concentrated my time at University on studying the theraputic benefits of music - I wrote my dissertation on how singing in amateur choirs can improve people's quality of life - but my real passion was/still is music in Paris around the 1900's, as well as spreading the word about Dilettante.

I joined an amateur orchestra in Harrow (London) last year which I'm really enjoying. Also I've recently aquired a cello which I keep meaning to start having lessons on, and quite fancy getting a viola...

Skills

• more
• Art Administration,
• Accompaniment.

• Chopin, Frederic Prelude for piano No. 15 in D flat major, Op. 28/15, CT. 180
• Messiaen, Olivier Quatuor pour la fin du temps, for violin, cello, clarinet & piano, I/22
• Mendelssohn, Felix A Midsummer Night's Dream, overture, Op. 21
• Mendelssohn, Felix The Hebrides, overture for orchestra in B minor ("Fingal's Cave"), Op. 26
• Stravinsky, Igor Petrushka, ballet (burlesque) in 4 scenes for orchestra (1911 version)
• Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich Nutcracker, ballet, Op. 71
• Elgar, Edward Quintet for piano & strings in A minor, Op. 84
• Debussy, Claude Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum, for piano (Children's Corner No. 1), L. 113/1
• Holst, Gustav St. Paul's Suite, for strings, Op. 29/2, H. 118