Lydia

Lydia was born in Bath and started to learn the Violin at the age of two. She studied at Chetham`s School of music, Manchester, from the age of eight and later at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Lydia performs and teaches regularly throughout London and has lots of experience in both fields. She currently teaches violin privately, as well as teaching at a primary school and for the Fireworks Music School and has experience teaching both the Suzuki method and for ABRSM syllabus students.
Lydia teaches both adults and children and is also DBS checked.

Availability: Monday - 1pm onwards
Tuesday - 1-3pm, 5.15pm - onwards
Wednesday - 3pm onwards
Thursday - 5.pm onwards
Friday - 10am - 3pm
Saturday and Sunday - varies

Willing to travel: 8 miles

Experience: I Began studying the violin at the age of two, having been inspired by Anne-Sophie Mutter’s playing. I studied with Victoria Miché in Somerset, and subsequently enrolled at Chetham`s School of Music at the age of eight. During my time at Chetham`s studied variously with David Vernon, Maya Rasooly, Marije Ploemacher, Kristoff Dolatko, Yumi Sasaki and Michael Gurevich. I am now in my final year of a BMus(hons) degree at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, with scholarship, currently studying with Krysia Osostowicz. I performed regularly in concerts such as the internal Chetham’s Lunchtime concerts as well as external Lunchtime concerts, masterclasses at Chetham’s, and at various festivals. I have also performed in the Chetham’s Symphony Orchestra including concerts of Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 at Cadogan Hall and Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 at Milton Court, Barbican, along with the Guildhall Chamber music orchestra playing the Film music of Debbie Wiseman and the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra performing Elgar’s The Music Makers, in Barbican. I have been playing in chamber groups since the age of eight when I started Chetham’s. In these groups we performed in concerts at least three times a year and took part in many masterclasses such as with Simone Fontanelli. In 2012 I studied chamber music with and performed alongside James Boyd and Charles Seward at MusicWorks. In recent months I performed the complete Dvorak’s Terzetto and parts of Chaminade Piano Trio No.1 Op.11. At Guildhall I have received chamber coaching from Jaqueline Ross, Caroline Palmer and members of the Heath Quartet. I also enjoy solo playing. In 2015 I was offered a place, with Scholarship, to study Classical Violin at the Aaron Copland School of Music, New York. Since April 2016 I have been teaching beginner violin, and in the next upcoming months I shall be performing with the Orion Orchestra in Cadogan Hall and Royal Festival Hall and with the Arch Sinfona.

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