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Who We Are Bridgepoint Music, a new music charity based in Rye, was founded with the sole purpose of changing people’s lives through the power of classical music. The organisation has two main branches, The Bridgepoint Ensemble, which is a collection of some of the finest professional musicians in the country who come together in Rye and at other venues to give concerts as well as pass on their knowledge and experience to the next generation through masterclasses and chamber music coaching. They will also be involved in taking music to care homes across the region, performing to people who can’t always get to a concert hall. The second branch is Rye Music Centre, which will comprise the Bridgepoint String Orchestras, three ensembles for school-aged children. 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These orchestras are for children and young people from a range of schools in Kent and East Sussex who come together to take part in high-quality string ensemble playing. The groups have a mix of ages and abilities from pre-Grade 1 to Grades 5, 6 and above. Tom Elliott, a former member of The Academy of St Martin in the Fields, an experienced violin teacher, workshop leader and ensemble director, takes the group. Membership of the Bridgepoint String Orchestras is £50 per term, which covers the 10 rehearsals every term plus concerts. For information on how to sign up please click the button below. https://bridgepointmusic.co.uk/past-concerts daily 0.75 2022-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60bf54d50b704a23f8411183/1649942569332-MADHK3FWN1QNWBWK3XAG/End+of+concert+applause+25+July+2021.jpg Past Concerts - < Who We Are/ Past Concerts Past Concerts Details of the fabulous concerts given by the Bridgepoint Ensemble so far: https://bridgepointmusic.co.uk/contact-us daily 0.75 2022-05-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60bf54d50b704a23f8411183/b98301cc-fec0-4b5a-b4e2-65ab5dfce2fc/BE+picture+for+the+contact+us+pane.jpg Contact Us - < Who We Are / Contact Us Contact Us To find out more about the Bridgepoint Music and its work, or to book the Bridgepoint Ensemble, please contact Tom Elliott on 07813108471 or email tom@bridgepointmusic.co.uk. https://bridgepointmusic.co.uk/support-us daily 0.75 2022-03-02 https://bridgepointmusic.co.uk/bridgepoint-in-mind daily 0.75 2022-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60bf54d50b704a23f8411183/b36292a6-58ec-4dfb-b2da-76254a63e98c/Carehome+.jpg Bridgepoint In Mind - < About Us / Bridgepoint In Mind Bridgepoint In Mind At Bridgepoint Music, we believe that high-quality live performances should be available to everyone, from school children to families and audiences of every background, age, race and gender. Sadly, people who live in care homes are often unable to go to live events and the provision of great musical experiences within the homes are often patchy or non-existent. The pandemic has only exacerbated the sense of cultural isolation that many care home residents feel and therefore, as soon as we are able, we want to start a new venture, Bridgepoint in Mind, which will involve our musicians giving live performances in care homes across East Sussex and Kent. The benefits of hearing live music, responding to it, singing along and feeling part of the performance can be a hugely powerful experience for all and particularly those living with dementia. The social and therapeutic benefits are enormous and helping those that are excluded from the cultural sphere is a high priority for us. We don’t just expect the sit in a glass box and wait for people to come and hear us play in the concert hall- we also bring music, to life. To join us on our quest to shine the light of musical joy into come of the forgotten corners of society, please get in touch with our manager, Tom Elliott on the Contact Us page, or make a donation via the Donate Now button. https://bridgepointmusic.co.uk/the-bridgepoint-ensemble daily 0.75 2022-01-24 https://bridgepointmusic.co.uk/the-bridgepoint-ensemble/sarah-mcmahon monthly 0.5 2022-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60bf54d50b704a23f8411183/8c19462c-00d3-4e88-83c7-b23ad560b7b9/Sqaure+Sarah+2.jpg The Bridgepoint Ensemble - Sarah McMahon - < Bridgepoint Ensemble/ Sarah McMahon Sarah McMahon, Cello Sarah McMahon began her cello studies with Nora Gilleece at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin in 1987. In 1995 she moved to London where she studied at the Royal Academy of Music with David Strange, Jenny Ward-Clarke and Colin Carr graduating in 2001 with a first-class BMus and a DipRAM distinction. Sarah is passionate about historical performance and is a principal cellist with the Academy of Ancient Music, the Irish Baroque Orchestra and Camerata Kilkenny. She is also regularly invited to play as guest principal cellist with Arcangelo, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Aurora Orchestra. Sarah is a dedicated chamber musician and a founder member of the Callino String Quartet. The Quartet was founded in 1999 and enjoys performing a challenging and eclectic repertoire, having worked with numerous composers including Kurtàg, Vasks, Kevin Volans, Aleksandra Vrebalov and Ian Wilson on their compositions for string quartet. They have also collaborated with diverse artists such as the Belcea Quartet, Edgar Meyer, the rock band Arcade Fire and jazz guitarist John Abercrombie. Sarah has appeared as a concerto soloist with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Irish Baroque Orchestra and featured in a critically acclaimed disc for Hyperion of the Vivaldi Double Cello Concerto with Jonathan Cohen and the King’s Consort. Sarah McMahon gratefully acknowledges the support of The Arts Council and Music Network which enabled her to purchase her cello through the Music Capital Scheme 2009. https://bridgepointmusic.co.uk/the-bridgepoint-ensemble/rebecca-jones monthly 0.5 2022-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60bf54d50b704a23f8411183/555f09ad-0bab-401e-abd9-0ac141583b07/Rebecca+Jones.jpg The Bridgepoint Ensemble - Rebecca Jones - < Bridgepoint Ensemble/ Rebecca Jones Rebecca Jones, Viola Rebecca Jones moved to Cardiff to take up the post of Principal Viola of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales after freelancing in London for many years. She was Assistant Principal Viola of the City of London Sinfonia and continues to play guest principal with many UK orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the baroque group Arcangelo with whom she performed the 6th Brandenburg Concerto at the Wigmore Hall. She is a frequent session musician and has toured with Adele, Bjørk and the Stereophonics. Rebecca is also a long-time member of the Callino String Quartet. They have played at London’s Wigmore Hall, have twice been resident at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Canada where they met and collaborated with Arcade Fire, and spent a week in New York with the famed contemporary specialists the Kronos Quartet, culminating in a recital at Carnegie Hall. Rebecca’s musically formative years were spent in Manchester at Chetham’s School of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music, followed by postgraduate studies with Thomas Riebl at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg. https://bridgepointmusic.co.uk/the-bridgepoint-ensemble/tom-elliott monthly 0.5 2022-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60bf54d50b704a23f8411183/1626184000120-CVDJUA0GT0VN4WFTLZLH/Square+Tom+1.jpg The Bridgepoint Ensemble - Tom Elliott - < Bridgepoint Ensemble/ Tom Elliott Tom Elliott Tom Elliott graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 1998 and immediately embarked on a busy career as a freelance violinist. After playing with many of the country's leading orchestras, he was made a member of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in 2001. It became clear to him that once the second of his four children were born, the frantic international touring schedule of the orchestra was not well suited to family life. Tom made the decision to leave his playing career behind and concentrated on teaching and soon after, he founded Glossop Music Festival in 2014. The experience of staging and organising high-quality music events created a path for him into full-time management, and he was given the opportunity to run the Northern Chamber Orchestra in Manchester, which he did until he moved with his family to Kent in 2018. Now he divides his time between running Bridgepoint Music, teaching classroom music, giving one to one violin lessons and being Engagement Manager for Hastings International Piano Competition. https://bridgepointmusic.co.uk/the-bridgepoint-ensemble/beatrice-phillips monthly 0.5 2022-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60bf54d50b704a23f8411183/6b661852-87e2-4ba9-9261-f0f0e61b80ec/Beatrice+Phillips.jpg The Bridgepoint Ensemble - Beatrice Phillips - < Bridgepoint Ensemble/ Beatrice Phillips Beatrice Phillips, Violin Beatrice Philips is a much sought after chamber musician, soloist, orchestral leader and teacher. In 2015 she founded the Eusebius Quartet with long-time chamber music colleagues with whom she has recorded quartets by Bartok, Haydn, Schubert and most recently Korngold. They were finalists last year at the Royal Overseas League competition and will take up a residency at Snape Maltings in Aldeburgh this Spring. In 2012 Beatrice founded her own Chamber Music Festival in Lewes, which has run every year since, attracting such eminent artists as Bengt Forsberg, Iestyn Davies, Alina Ibragimova, Guy Johnston, Jonathan Cohen, Alasdair Beatson, Philip Higham and many, many more. Beatrice is an enthusiastic teacher and has coached and run junior courses for MusicWorks Chamber Music. Together with the Eusebius Quartet, she has organised tours of primary schools introducing chamber music and live performance to many young children; most recently in and around Lewes as a part of the Lewes Chamber Music Festival community outreach. Recent solo performances include Bruch’s violin concerto at St John’s Smith Square in July, at the 40th anniversary Gala concert for the East Sussex Youth Orchestra with conductor Colin Metters and last Spring Beatrice performed Korngold’s violin concerto with the North London Symphony Orchestra. Beatrice is extremely grateful for the current loan of a composite Stradivarius violin, which she loves. https://bridgepointmusic.co.uk/the-bridgepoint-ensemble/nicky-sweeney monthly 0.5 2022-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60bf54d50b704a23f8411183/424ef2f8-e0dc-4aef-a778-7521ae4a7eb3/Nicky+Sweeney.jpg The Bridgepoint Ensemble - Nicky Sweeney - < Bridgepoint Ensemble/ Nicky Sweeney Nicky Sweeney, Violin Nicky Sweeney is in demand as a freelance chamber and orchestral musician in the UK where she has lived since she gained her 1st Class Honours performance degree from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She studied with David Takeno and won every violin competition during her time there. She has been Assistant Leader/Principal 2nd with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Nash Ensemble, Manchester Camerata and London Mozart Players. She frequently records music for tv, film and pop in London and loves playing different types of music. Highlights include recording and live shows with Stevie Wonder. Nicky has been Assistant Leader of ICO for more than twenty years and loves her connection with Ireland. She has been very lucky to lead the orchestra on several major tours, to South America, Europe and the USA. She has played numerous concertos, double concertos and chamber music with her fabulous colleagues. Her CD recording of Moeran Violin Duos with Darragh Morgan will be released shortly. https://bridgepointmusic.co.uk/the-bridgepoint-ensemble/viv-mclean monthly 0.5 2022-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60bf54d50b704a23f8411183/bebd3e21-d2f4-4b76-84f7-ca56301088a2/Viv+McLean.jpg The Bridgepoint Ensemble - Viv McLean - < Bridgepoint Ensemble/ Vic McLean Viv McLean, Piano Described by Le Monde as “possessing the genius one finds in those who know how to forget themselves”, since winning First Prize at the Maria Canals Piano Competition in Barcelona, British pianist Viv McLean has performed in all the major venues in the UK as well as throughout Europe, Japan, Australia and the USA. Viv’s concerto work includes appearances with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Halle Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Sinfonia Viva, Orchestra of the Swan, Orchestra of St John’s, Northern Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Concert Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of such conductors as Daniel Harding, Wayne Marshall, John Lubbock and Christopher Warren-Green. Viv also performs regularly with leading chamber ensembles and has appeared at numerous festivals including the Cheltenham International Festival, Buxton Festival, Music in the Round Festival and Harrogate International Festival in the UK, the International Beethoven Festival, the Mecklenburg Festival and the Kultur Kreis Festival in Germany, the Festival International de Musique Classique d’Aigues-Mortes, the Melle Festival and Festival de Saintes in France, the Vinterfestspill i Bergstaden in Norway and the Musik vid Kattegatt Festival in Sweden. Since 2014, Viv has been pianist-in-residence at the Glossop Music Festival. Viv made his BBC Radio 3 recital debut through the BBC Radio 3 Young Artists Forum scheme and has also recorded for Classic FM, WDR Radio in Germany, Radio France, ABC Radio in Australia, NRK Radio in Norway and for the Sky Arts television channel. His commercial releases include recordings for such labels as Sony, Naxos, Nimbus, RPO Records, ICSM Records, Harmony & Imagination Records and his most recent releases are a Chopin recital and a selection of live recordings for Stone Records. https://bridgepointmusic.co.uk/the-bridgepoint-ensemble/hetty-snell monthly 0.5 2021-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60bf54d50b704a23f8411183/81dace81-86f7-4da1-a9e5-3b94cd8b4c51/Hetty+Snell.jpg The Bridgepoint Ensemble - Hetty Snell - < Bridgepoint Ensemble/ Hetty Snell Hetty Snell, Cello British cellist Hetty Snell graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 2012, where she studied with Josephine Knight. She has since held orchestral positions with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and joined the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House in 2018 as Principal Cello. In 2020 Hetty performed the solo cello part in “The Cellist” - a new ballet about the life of Jacqueline du Pré, choreographed by Cathy Marston for the main stage at the Royal Opera House. She has performed worldwide, including in North and South America, Japan, China and across Europe and has been invited to perform as guest principal cello across the Country. As a chamber musician, Hetty has appeared on BBC Radio 3’s ‘In tune’, performed at the Royal Festival Hall and Wigmore Hall, and has toured across Europe and Australia. Aside from performing, Hetty has a real enthusiasm for teaching and outreach work, including special educational needs and disabilities, and work in dementia care homes. She also enjoys tutoring the cello sections for the National Children’s Orchestra and the Benedetti Foundation. https://bridgepointmusic.co.uk/the-bridgepoint-ensemble/judith-busbridge monthly 0.5 2021-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60bf54d50b704a23f8411183/111af7b8-b7e6-4270-a388-ebc19f689f25/Sqaure+judith+.jpg The Bridgepoint Ensemble - Judith Busbridge - < Bridgepoint Ensemble/ Judith Busbridge Judith Busbridge, Viola Judith Busbridge graduated in Music from Birmingham University and completed her viola studies with Thomas Riebl in Salzburg, where she was Solo violist in the Camerata Academica under the directorship of Sándor Végh, a position she held for five years. In September 2013 Judith joined the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as one of their Principal violas. She has a busy schedule playing for the Opera season as well as for the Royal Ballet. As a former member of two multi-award-winning chamber music ensembles; the Dante String Quartet and Ensemble 360, Judith has performed at major concert halls and festivals throughout the UK and Europe, regularly broadcasting on BBC Radio 3 and winning the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Chamber Music both in 2007 and 2013. Her varied freelance career includes being Principal viola in the London Mozart Players as well as playing guest principal viola with the English Chamber Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra and The Academy of St Martin in the Fields. She is also Solo viola in John Eliot Gardiner’s Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, which performs a repertoire of nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on period instruments. https://bridgepointmusic.co.uk/the-bridgepoint-ensemble/ian-rathbone monthly 0.5 2021-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60bf54d50b704a23f8411183/1626186565417-SWT5H1E4SU14A3PVJYPH/Square+Ian+.jpg The Bridgepoint Ensemble - Ian Rathbone - < Bridgepoint Ensemble/ Ian Rathbone Ian Rathbone, Viola Ian Rathbone started playing the violin at the age of three with the London Suzuki Group. Aged eleven, he changed to the viola and was awarded a scholarship to the Royal College of Music Junior Department. Ian went on to study with David Takeno at the Guildhall, Milan Skampa in Prague and Thomas Riebl in Salzburg. Ian enjoys a busy and varied freelance career, working with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Orchestra Revolutionnaire et Romantique, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra as well as playing in commercial sessions for film scores. https://bridgepointmusic.co.uk/the-bridgepoint-ensemble/matthew-shap monthly 0.5 2022-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60bf54d50b704a23f8411183/7f26da66-c7d9-47d8-860e-6710acb3aea6/Sqaure+matthew+3.jpg The Bridgepoint Ensemble - Matthew Sharp - < Bridgepoint Ensemble/ Matthew Sharp Matthew Sharp, Cello and Animateur ‘Virtuoso of the arts’ (The Times), Matthew Sharp, has performed worldwide as solo cellist, baritone, actor and director: solo appearances with the RPO, LPO, RLPO, CBSO; singing principal roles for the Royal Opera House and Opera North; acting principal roles at the Young Vic and National Theatre Studio; directing for the BBC and Opera North. From Glastonbury to Glyndebourne, Sydney Opera House to Wigmore Hall, he has worked with an extraordinary spectrum of leading artists from Sir John Tavener to Marta Eggert to Dave McKean to Caryl Churchill. His own music and theatre works have toured to major festivals globally. He has given over sixty world premieres and recorded for Sony, EMI, Decca, Naxos, Somm, NMC, Avie and Whirlwind. www.matthewsharp.net https://bridgepointmusic.co.uk/the-bridgepoint-ensemble/matthew-ward monthly 0.5 2021-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60bf54d50b704a23f8411183/8ea9195b-464f-44ba-a7fd-5817fde3c043/Sqaure+matthew+1.jpg The Bridgepoint Ensemble - Matthew Ward - < Bridgepoint Ensemble/ Matthew Ward Matthew Ward, Violin Matthew Ward was born in London in 1974. Since graduating from the Royal Academy of Music in 1996, Matthew has worked with a diverse mix of artists, groups and orchestras. In 1997 Matthew joined critically acclaimed and ground-breaking theatrical string septet The Gogmagogs with whom he appeared in major festivals throughout the UK and in Europe, the USA, Canada, Brazil and Australia. Matthew has since collaborated with artists including blues guitarist Billy Jenkins, jazz pianist Django Bates, classical Palestinian group Sabrine and The Clod Ensemble. Since 1999 Matthew has been a member of The Academy of St Martin in the Fields and regularly appears as an orchestral Guest Principal with the English National Opera, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony, and Orchestra of St. John’s. A keen chamber musician, Matthew has performed with violinist Andrew Haveron, and celebrated pianists Peter Frankl and Pascal Roge and has made recordings with London based Chamber Domain. Matthew has played on numerous albums and soundtracks: a recent highlight was improvising and playing solo violin for the award-winning documentary film In The Shadow of the Moon with composer and cellist Philip Sheppard. Matthew has given workshops on improvisation at the Julliard School, Guildhall School of Music and Drama and at the Opus 118 string programme in Harlem, New York. Matthew is married to the pianist Fiona Dalzell and plays a violin by Georges Chanot, 1848. https://bridgepointmusic.co.uk/the-bridgepoint-ensemble/sarah-sexton monthly 0.5 2021-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60bf54d50b704a23f8411183/d544fdf8-0ebd-4aae-9063-f0c777691e68/Square+Sarah+.jpg The Bridgepoint Ensemble - Sarah Sexton - < Bridgepoint Ensemble/ Sarah Sexton Sarah Sexton, Violin Sarah Sexton studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Erich Gruenberg, Lydia Mordkovich and Simon Standage, graduating with a Dip RAM in 2002. Sarah became the first Irish person to lead the European Union Youth Orchestra in 2001, when she led the orchestra under Sir Colin Davis and Paavo Jarvi in European tours. Professionally, Sarah has been invited to perform as guest leader of the RTE National Symphony Orchestra, the RTE Concert Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Camerata Ireland, Classical Opera Company, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and currently is the leader of the Orchestra of the Sixteen. Sarah was a member of the Callino Quartet for 18 years until 2017 and enjoyed performing with them throughout the U.K., Italy, France, Germany, Lithuania, Hungary, Canada and the Netherlands. https://bridgepointmusic.co.uk/the-bridgepoint-ensemble/katherine-baker monthly 0.5 2022-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60bf54d50b704a23f8411183/edbe285a-af42-4351-9d80-62ec6cce4558/Sqaure+Kathrine+.jpg The Bridgepoint Ensemble - Katherine Baker - < Bridgepoint Ensemble/ Katherine Baker Katherine Baker, Flute Katherine Baker has been Principal Flute of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden since 2018. An alumnus of the Royal Academy of Music, where she had studied with William Bennett, Katherine has previously held the position of the first flute with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the Hallé. During her time in Manchester, from 2004-to 2018, she made various solo appearances with the orchestra including performances of Mozart’s flute and harp concerto, Bach’s B minor suite and Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto no. 5 with Angela Hewitt. Katherine has always enjoyed a varied career and often takes on guest principal work with many of the country’s leading orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, English Chamber Orchestra and Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Recent solo appearances include playing the Mozart flute and harp concerto with Lucy Wakeford and the Northern Chamber Orchestra and in 2019 she recorded Joe Duddell’s Mnemonic with harpist Suzy Willison-Kawalec for the Resonus label and the Presteigne Festival Orchestra. During a time, when the arts were in turmoil Katherine, was fortunate to be invited to perform in Wingspan, a project created by world-renowned choreographer Lynn Page which combined solo musicians performing on stage with dancers from the Royal Ballet, a feat in the time of social distancing and mask-wearing. As a chamber musician, Katherine regularly performs with chamber ensembles around the country, most recently with the newly created Bridgepoint Ensemble in Rye. In 2010 Katherine was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and is currently a professor of flute there. She lives in Kent with her husband and four children. https://bridgepointmusic.co.uk/the-bridgepoint-ensemble/hannah-sloane monthly 0.5 2021-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60bf54d50b704a23f8411183/1626184050909-DAHJEO9C74X24L9EFD7S/Square+Hannah.jpg The Bridgepoint Ensemble - Hannah Sloane - < Bridgepoint Ensemble/ Hannah Sloane Hannah Sloane, Cello Hannah Sloane enjoys an international career centered upon chamber music. She has played in festivals throughout the UK, Europe and North America, and is a member of the Eusebius Quartet. Formed in 2016, the Eusebius Quartet were finalists in the 2018 Royal Overseas League, the quartet has been in residence at Lewes Chamber Music Festival, Wye Valley Chamber Music Festival and Fitzrovia Arts Festival, as well as regularly performing live on BBC Radio 3. The quartet’s debut album, featuring Korngold Piano Quintet with Alasdair Beatson, recorded in lockdown in 2020, will be released this year by SOMM Recordings. Hannah is also a sought-after freelance cellist and regularly plays with the London Chamber Orchestra and was honoured to play with Orchestre Romantique et Révolutionnaire for their Beethoven Symphony cycle at Carnegie Hall in New York. As a concerto soloist has played with several orchestras in the UK and USA. With the Juilliard Orchestra in 2010, she played Tan Dun’s ‘Concerto for Six’ at Alice Tully Hall with the composer conducting. Hannah studied at the Juilliard School in New York, graduating with Scholastic Distinction in 2013. In 2012, she was the recipient of a French American Exchange Grant from the Carla Bruni Sarkozy Foundation, which took her to study at the Paris Conservatoire. Hannah teaches cello and chamber music at Junior Royal Academy of Music and Alleyn’s School, as well as coaching on South London Youth Orchestra. She has directed courses for Junior MusicWorks, London and has worked as a musician-workshop leader on London Chamber Orchestra’s flagship Music Junction outreach project. Hannah plays a Piattellini cello dating 1780, kindly on loan to her from the Stark family and a contemporary Paul Sadka bow. https://bridgepointmusic.co.uk/the-bridgepoint-ensemble/ruth-rogers monthly 0.5 2021-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60bf54d50b704a23f8411183/8d93693d-a645-4eeb-ab05-c04d8bc618b5/Sqaure+ruth+.jpg The Bridgepoint Ensemble - Ruth Rogers - < Bridgepoint Ensemble/ Ruth Rogers Ruth Rogers, Violin Ruth Rogers studied with Itzhak Rashkovsky and Herman Krebbers. Described as “the finest of the younger generation of violinists” (Musical Opinion) and hailed by the Guardian as “superb”, Ruth is in demand as a soloist, leader, and chamber musician. She graduated from the RCM in 2001 and was awarded the Tagore Gold Medal - the college’s highest accolade. She has an impressive list of awards and has performed as a soloist at such prestigious venues as The Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and St John’s Smith Square. Ruth has appeared in concert alongside distinguished performers, including Ida Haendel, and John Lill, and has led orchestras under the batons of Lorin Maazel and Colin Davis. Ruth was appointed as Leader of the London Mozart Players in 2015. She worked as Co-Leader of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra from 2008 until 2012 and appears as a guest leader of many other major orchestras including the Hallé, BBC Philharmonic, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. Ruth appears regularly on television and radio broadcasts as a member of the John Wilson Orchestra. Ruth plays regularly with the Iuventus Quartet and Aquinas Piano Trio and has appeared at the Wigmore Hall with the Nash Ensemble. Ruth has played to orphans, landmine victims and malaria patients in refugee camps on the Thailand-Burma border. https://bridgepointmusic.co.uk/the-bridgepoint-ensemble/matthew-truscott monthly 0.5 2021-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60bf54d50b704a23f8411183/e2ed0ef0-a7c3-48ac-8491-a6fdf892c602/Square+Matthew+2.jpg The Bridgepoint Ensemble - Matthew Truscott - < Bridgepoint Ensemble/ Matthew Truscott Matthew Truscott, Violin Matthew Truscott is a versatile violinist who shares his time between period instrument music and ‘modern’ performance, appearing with some of the finest musicians in both fields. He is concertmaster of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and one of the leaders of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. In these roles, he has directed orchestral performances from the violin in venues around the world, including Carnegie Hall, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Berlin Philharmonie, Vienna Musikverein, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie and at the Royal Festival Hall and BBC Proms in London. As a guest leader he has appeared with ACO Collective, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, English National Opera, Dutch National Opera and The English Concert. Previously a member of the Dante and Quince Quartets, chamber music collaborations have also included projects with Trevor Pinnock, Jonathan Manson, Emmanuel Pahud and most recently Leif Ove Andsnes. Matthew teaches baroque violin at the Royal Academy of Music in London.