Specialist Music Training

 

  • Trinity College of Music JD
  • Royal College of Music JD
  • Purcell School
  • The University of Sheffield
  • Trinity College of Music (now Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance)

Some of the UK's leading professors and instrumentalists who taught Pauline were:

 VIOLIN

Eszter Boda-Katona

(winner of the Carl Flesch International Violin Competition)

Leland Chen

(winner of the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition)

 

 VIOLA

Ian Jewel

(professor at the Purcell School and the Royal College of Music)

 

 PIANO

Cecilia McDowall

(professor at Trinity College of Music and renowned composer)

Emily Jeffrey

(professor of BBC Young Musician Competition Winners of 2010 and 2014)

 

 CHAMBER MUSIC

Krzysztof Smietana

(winner of several major international violin competitions)

Ian Jewel

(violist of the Gabrieli and Zivoni Quartets and professional chamber music coach)

Robin Ireland

(violist of the Lindsay String Quartet and Head of Chamber Music and Senior Viola Tutor at the Birmingham Conservatoire of Music)

Julian Jacobson

(pianist, chamber musician and composer)

 

Extra specialist music training in Pauline's youth included courses with:

National Children's Orchestra

Pro Corda

Cadenza International Summer School

 

Performance Highlights

 

Directed by world-class conductors:

 

  • Simon Rattle OM CBE
  • Roger Norrington CBE
  • Richard Hickox CBE
  • Paul Daniel CBE
  • Ronald Corp OBE
  • Martyn Brabbins
  • Ryan Wigglesworth (currently Composer in Residence at ENO)
  • Sian Edwards

 

Venues performed at on the violin and/or viola include:

 

  • The Royal Festival Hall
  • The Queen Elizabeth Hall
  • The Purcell Room
  • Wigmore Hall
  • Cadogan Hall
  • St John's Smith Square
  • Blackheath Halls
  • Fairfield Halls
  • Dorking Halls
  • Snape Maltings Concert Hall
  • Wiltshire Music Centre Concert Hall
  • Dartington Hall
  • St Endellion
  • Theatres and Playhouses nationwide
  • numerous Cathedrals nationwide
  • Windsor Castle - for Prince Charles

 

 

 

Television and Radio highlights:

 

  • Recording for a Classic FM's Masterclass programme, at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester - on the violin
  • Recording with the Polish Radio and Television Orchestra, Warsaw, the original soundtrack to 'Kryminalni', which became a hit Polish television crime drama series - on the viola

 

 

 

Freelancing -regularly interchanging as violinist and violist- with each of the following:

 

  • British Philharmonic Concert Orchestra
  • Mozart Symphony Orchestra
  • International Film Orchestra
  • Amici Chamber Choir
  • Axminster Choral Society
  • St Endellion Summer Festival Orchestra
  • Dartington International Festival Orchestra

 

Principal and solo viola roles:

 

  • Freelancing for City of London Freemen's School production of The Phantom of the Opera (original full score)
  • Sheffield University Symphony Orchestra
  • Sheffield University Chamber Orchestra
  • Sheffield University New Music Ensemble - under the direction of the composer George Nicholson
  • Stoneleigh Youth Orchestra - under the direction of Adrian Brown

 

Countries toured:

 

Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Czech Republic, Poland, Estonia, Finland, Canada, USA