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TIMOTHY BARRATT (PIANO) studied on a Scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music, winning many major awards, and completed his studies in Paris with Vlado Perlemuter, himself a pupil of Ravel, and with Geoffrey Parsons. He has toured and broadcast extensively in the UK and abroad as soloist, accompanist and chamber music player. Whilst still a student he developed a special interest in song accompaniment through playing for Masterclasses at Aldeburgh, subsequently partnering such artists as Dame Felicity Lott, Stephen Varcoe and Robert White. In addition, instrumentalists he has worked with include Jack Brymer, Bradley Creswick and Haaken Hardenberger.
Teaching forms a major part of his musical life and he enjoys working with pupils of all ages and levels. He is Head of Keyboard at Dulwich College and also teaches at the Royal Academy of Music. He frequently directs Masterclasses and teachers’ workshops, most recently in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia and is a busy Competition and Festival adjudicator. An ABRSM examiner since 1991, he has been a Trainer of new examiners for many years and was recently appointed Consultant Moderator. Other work for the AB includes co-writing the Board’s Teaching Notes on Piano Exam pieces, presenting Seminars and acting as a mentor on the CT ABRSM Course.
ANDREW SHERWOOD (STRINGS) has performed in many parts of the world as conductor and violinist. As a soloist, performances have ranged from London to Eastern Europe, the USA, the Far East and Africa. He continues to give recitals and is at present recording some rare British music. Teaching has always been an important part of his life and he is a Professor of Violin at Trinity College, London. As an adjudicator he is in constant demand and adjudicates in Britain, Ireland, the Far East and Africa.
As a conductor acclaim has come from work with orchestras including City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra strings and Brighton Youth Orchestra and the BYO String Ensemble. Sherwood is Director of Choirs for the University of Brighton, director of an annual course for young musicians of all standards in Sri Lanka, Director of Music for Musicians of All Saints, conductor of Somerset County Youth Orchestra, principal conductor for European Youth Summer Music, and has recently been invited to return to South America where he conducted part of last season with the National Youth Orchestra of Chile.
SARA REYNOLDS (VOICE) was educated in a convent in the South East of England and studied singing with Ann Lampard and Majorie Thomas. She won many prizes as a young singer and performed regularly on both the stage and concert platform, including at Buckingham Palace and at the Edinburgh Festival. Operatic roles include Lucretia in Britten's The Rape of Lucretia,, Cherubino in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, The Sorceress in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Miss Baggott in Britten's The Little Sweep, Elsie Maynard in Sullivan's The Yeoman of the Guard and Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance. Oratorios include Handel's Messiah, Purcell's Come Ye Sons of Art and Mozart's Requiem.
However, Sara's interest has always been in teaching and she developed her skills to become a specialist in teaching young voices. She was invited to become a Professor of Singing at Junior Royal Academy of Music, London in 1996 and became Head of Voice in 2005. She has previously worked as a singing teacher in many schools including Charterhouse, Lord Wandsworth College, Midhurst Convent and Wispers School and currently she combines being Head of Voice at Seaford College, Head of Voice at JRAM and being a single mum to her two adorable small children.
PAUL HARRIS (WOODWIND AND BRASS) is one of the UK’s most influential and experienced music educationalists. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where he won the August Manns Prize for outstanding performance in clarinet playing and where he now teaches. In great demand as a teacher, composer, and writer, his inspirational masterclasses and workshops continue to influence thousands of young musicians and teachers all over the world in both the principles and practice of musical performance and education.
GRAHAM FITCH (PIANO) maintains an international career as a pianist, teacher, adjudicator, lecturer and writer. He teaches piano at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, as well as privately in London. Active as a performer, he has just returned from a tour of Singapore and Australia where he has been giving recitals and masterclasses.
Graham Fitch won the Hopkinson Gold Medal at the Royal College of Music, and first prize in the Mieczyslaw Munz Piano Competition in the USA, The New York Times speaking of his playing as "unalloyed pleasure". He taught piano at the Purcell School, then in 1997 was appointed Associate Professor, Head of Keyboard at the South African College of Music, University of Cape Town. From there, he travelled extensively to perform and teach including an international tour of Bach's Goldberg Variations which elicited rapturous reviews on four continents. He gave keynote addresses at four successive Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conferences, and was in residence at London's Royal Academy of Music in 2006.
His masterclasses have received high praise for their creative and illuminating approach to the subject. Graham is also a writer, with several articles published in the musical press, including regular contributions to Pianist Magazine. He is also the author of a highly successful blog, practisingthepiano.com.