Young Professionals 2011

Christine Anderson (viola) Glasgow-born Christine Anderson is in her third year at the Royal Scottish Academy of  Music and Drama where she currently studies with Jane Atkins. She has participated in masterclasses with Lawrence Power, Ilya Gringolts, Andrew Manze, David Watkin, and the Brodsky Quartet.   

Christine has won several awards, including the Nan Christie Memorial Prize for Strings, and the John McInulty Prize for Orchestral String Playing; has been principal viola of the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland and RSAMD Symphony  Orchestra; she is currently principal viola of Camerata Scotland.  

She has played with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and in collaborative projects with the Scottish Ensemble, Scottish Opera, and BBC SSO - taking her round Britain to play in venues including London's Wigmore Hall.

Christine is a keen chamber musician and is currently a member of the Csengele Quartet and the Albion Trio. She has taken part in Mendelssohn on Mull since 2009.

Rosemary Attree (violin) is from Hexham in Northumberland is in her first year of postgraduate study at the Royal Northern College of Music where she studies with Malcolm Layfield, having graduated with a First Class BMus. She has led and co-led a number of RNCM ensembles, including the Opera, Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, and played with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and BBC Philharmonic orchestras.   

She won the RNCM Hirsch Prize with the Attrampé Quartet and represented RNCM at the Greenwich International Chamber Music Festival. She has performed at the RNCM Chamber Music Festival and her quartet was invited to perform for International Chair in Chamber Music, Gábor Takács - Nagy and in a public masterclass for The Michelangelo Quartet. Last year, Rosemary was one of twelve students in the RNCM String Ensemble tour to China. Rosemary's studies are generously supported by a full scholarship from the Oglesby Trust. She plays a Rogeri violin kindly on loan to her by the RNCM.

Patrick Curlett (violin)is currently studying with Levon Chilingirian at the Royal Northern College of Music. Growing  up in Bournemouth, he received his first engagement with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra at the age of just 17. He has since appeared in numerous concertos and in solo recitals across the UK and Italy. While studying, Patrick performs as a freelance musician, varying from folk and baroque to regularly playing with the Hallé Orchestra.  
As part of the Medlock Quartet, he won the RNCM Terence Weil Prize, being awarded 2nd place in the UK intercollegiate competition and gaining a place on the 'Live Music Now' Scheme. With the Medlock Quartet he has performed with Edinburgh Quartet and the Allegri Quartet. Patrick has been leader of many of the College orchestras and ensembles, recently leading the Symphony Orchestra in the international Cantiere Festival in Montepulciano, Italy.

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Feargus Egan (cello) has just completed his final year the RSAMD where he studied with Martin Storey. He is a member of the award-winning Csengele Quartet, as well a piano trio and plays continuo in the RSAMD baroque ensemble. The Csengele Quartet has received coaching from members of the Brodsky Quartet, Andrew Manze, Ilya Gringolts and the Szymanowski Quartet.
 
As a soloist, Feargus has won the RSAMD Cello Challenge prize and was a finalist in the Governor's recital prize for strings. He performed the Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto with the RSAMD Junior Academy Chamber Orchestra.
Feargus performs regularly as an orchestral musician as principal cello of the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland and of their chamber orchestra, Camerata Scotland. Last year he won a place on the Scottish Opera apprenticeship scheme, performing in the World Premiere version of Prokofiev's War and Peace. In February 2011 Feargus performed with the Scottish Ensemble, touring Scotland on their Side-by-Side project. He first attended Mendelssohn on Mull in 2009.

Ariana Kasefi (cello) is in her second year at the Royal College of Music where she studies with Melissa Phelps. Here she has been principal cello in the Sinfonietta and the Chamber Orchestra, and is the recipient of a scholarship and the Henry Wood award. At College, Ariana won the Anna Shuttleworth cello prize and was in concerto competition finals. She won first prize in the concerto and recital class at the North London Festival and the concerto class at Kingston-upon-Thames. London appearances include St. John's, Smith Square, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Cadogan Hall.
 
As a member of the Willow Piano Trio, she has recorded the Tchaikovsky Piano Trio and performed in many venues around England. With her quartet she has won many competitions, including first prize in the Pro Corda chamber music competition. As a result of this, Ariana's quartet performed Bartók's First Quartet at the Wigmore Hall in London, where she also performed Elgar's Piano Quintet this spring. She took part in Mendelssohn on Mull in 2010.

Jennifer Ames (viola)Jennifer started playing the viola at the age of fourteen after studying the violin for seven years. She was awarded a scholarship to the Junior Academy where she studied under Robert Turrell. She was also a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. In 2007 she gained a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music, studying with Martin Outram. In recent years she has performed in masterclasses with Harmut Rohde, Jerzy Kosmala and Tatiana Mazurenko.

Jenny also has a keen interest in contemporary classical music and enjoys playing with the London Contemporary Orchestra and various ensembles at the Academy. She is excited to be back in Mull for the second time.

Sabina Sandri Olsson (cello) was born in Sweden 1987. She began learning the cello at the age of 9 at a specialist music school in Oskarshamn, moving to Stockholm in 2003 to receive tuition
at the Lilla Akademien with Solveig Saving. In 2005 she began studying under Professor Ola Karlsson at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm.
 
In Autumn 2008 she began studying at the Royal College of Music with Melissa Phelps, where she held several study awards including the Amaryllis Fleming Award, and recently completed her postgraduate diploma there. She has been a member of the Aros Quartet since summer 2010, after taking part in Mendelssohn on Mull, and is now working as a freelance musician in Sweden.
 
Sabina has participated in masterclasses with prestigious musicians including Martti Rousi, Stephan Goerner, and Mats Lidström. She is an active chamber music musician and plays with different groups in Sweden and London, regularly performing in both countries. Sabina has performed on Swedish radio and television to critical acclaim.

Josie Robertson (violin) Josie is in her third year at Cambridge University and studies the violin with David Takeno, and is principal violinist of the university Chamber Orchestra.
 
Solo performances have included Vaughan Williams 'The Lark Ascending', the Vivaldi and Bach 'Double' Violin Concertos, Bach Concerto in G major and recitals in Holyrood Palace and Edinburgh Castle. Josephine won the Kenneth Page Foundation Competition, leading to recitals in Repton School and at the Birmingham Conservatoire. In summer 2008, she took up a fellowship to the National Symphony Orchestra summer institute held in Washington DC, and also led the Robertson Quartet at an international chamber music festival in Singapore. Josephine has led the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland on international tour and in Scotland. Josephine recently performed the Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 with the European Doctor's Orchestra, Edinburgh Incidental Orchestra and Cambridge University Graduate Orchestra. She has attended Mendelssohn on Mull for the past two years.

Julia Rogers (violin) Born in Lanzarote, Julia began playing the violin aged 7 in Spain. She gave her first solo debut at the age of 10 and went on to be the youngest member of the National Youth
Orchestra of Scotland. She attended St Mary's Music School in Edinburgh from the age of  16 where she won the Edinburgh Festival Concerto Competition two years running.
Julia was awarded a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in London, studying under Maurice Hasson, where she completed both her Undergraduate and Postgraduate diplomas with Distinction.
 
Julia is a keen chamber musician and is a member of the Aros Quartet which was founded at  Mendelssohn on Mull festival 2010. Their year has included performances at St Martin-in-the-Fields in London, the National Gallery and a residency at West Dean College in Chichester. As a freelance player she has worked with the Jersey Chamber Orchestra, Eden Sinfonia Chamber Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta.

Kay Stephen (viola) was born in Aberdeen and completed her undergraduate studies in violin and viola with Katie Hull and Andrew Berridge at the RSAMD, graduating in 2009 with first class honours. During her studies she performed as a soloist with the RSAMD Symphony Orchestra and with the Maggini Quartet, Brodsky Quartet and Ilya Gringolts in performances of Mendelssohn and Schubert Octets.
 
Kay is currently studying for her masters at the RNCM where she learns violin with Pavel Fischer. She has led all of the college orchestras including the Symphony Orchestra in its residency at the Cantiere Festival in Montepulciano, Italy.
 
She continues to work regularly as both violinist and violist in Scotland, with ensembles such as the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, with whom she is currently on trial, and Red Note. Kay is grateful to the Riga Heesom and Donald Dewar Awards who generously support her studies.

Emma Stevenson (viola) currently resides in Scotland while freelancing throughout the UK with various orchestras and ensembles including RLPO, BBC SSO, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Ballet, Scottish Ensemble and Aros Quartet, formed at Mendelssohn on Mull 2010. She began playing the viola at the age of 15 after being awarded a place to study under the guidance of James Durrant MBE at the music school of Douglas Academy. She was offered the Stevenson Scholarship to carry on her studies at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama with Catherine Marwood, followed by the Royal College of Music where she studied with Jonathan Barritt.
 
Emma is passionate about passing music on to younger generations and using it to enhance, educate and develop confidence in children from all backgrounds..

Louisa Tatlow (violin) was born into a family of British musicians in Stockholm, Sweden and is currently studying at the Royal College of Music under Susie Mészáros (viola) and Levon Chilingirian (violin). She has lived in both London and Sweden, studying both at the Junior Department of the Royal College of Music and at Sweden's junior academy, the Lilla Akademien, where she led both the chamber and symphony orchestras.
 
Louisa made her viola debut in June 2006 playing solo viola in 'Vision' from Kurt Atterberg's Suite for violin, viola and string orchestra in a live broadcast with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Last summer she led the viola section of the Swedish National Youth Orchestra, performing under Esa-Pekka Salonen, in addition to attending Mendelssohn on Mull for the first time.
 
Louisa is one of the founding members of La Ronde des Violons, a seven-piece violin ensemble focusing on modern repertoire with a broad stylistic spectrum.

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Amy Tress (violin) commences her postgraduate studies in September 2011 at the Royal College of Music, having recently been awarded a scholarship. Her undergraduate studies were at Christ Church, Oxford, where she won an academic scholarship, Joan Conway music scholarship, and Philomusica apprenticeship, and where she led the University Orchestra and Sinfonietta. She graduated in 2010 with the highest first class degree in her year, winning the Gibbs Prize. Amy played in the National Youth Orchestra and as well as regular solo and chamber recitals, Amy has peformed many concertos including Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Korngold, Ravel's Tzigane and concertos for two violins by Bach and Schnittke.
 
Last summer she attended the International Ravel Academy in France, to have masterclasses with Olivier Charlier, where she won the 'Musical Moments de Chalosse' prize. She currently plays with the London Contemporary Orchestra and the Britten-Pears Orchestra, while studying privately with Remus Azoitei.

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Rebecca Yerevag Greenstreet (violin) is a graduate in music from Newnham College, Cambridge. She has been awarded a full Entrance Scholarship from the Royal Academy of Music for postgraduate study,commencing September 2011.
 
As a former Instrumental Award Scheme scholar at Cambridge and a founding member of the Green St. Quartet, she has had masterclasses with the violist James Boyd, the Schubert Ensemble and the Endellion Quartet, and performed alongside Robin Ireland in the Kellaway Concert Series, Cambridge.
 
Rebecca was a finalist for the Nigel W. Brown Music Prize, co-led the Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra and productions of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and Hindemith's Sancta Susanna. A former member of the National Youth Orchestra, Rebecca currently studies with Remus Azoitei, professor at the Royal Academy of Music. Rebecca gave her debut solo public recital in London in October 2010, with further recitals planned for this year. Rebecca plays a Johannes Tononi violin, which she hopes to acquire through a syndicated trust with the help of Nigel Brown and the Stradivari Trust.

 

Last modified on Sunday, August 07, 2011