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Huddersfield offers a distinctive package of opportunities for all performers, whether they wish to specialise in brass band repertoire, contemporary vocal techniques or baroque string playing. At Huddersfield, we consider it vital that you be taught by a professional performer on your instrument. In years two and three of the degree course, recitals are examined by both internal and external assessors, and receive written feedback from a specialist on their instrument (we have an external specialist for strings, wind, percussion, brass, voice and keyboard). This may sound like common sense, but is rare in British universities. Many students of the University of Huddersfield’s part-time music staff have gone on to careers in performance as soloists or as members of ensembles (including a flautist with the London Symphony Orchestra, a singer with the Rose Consort of Viols, and Brass Band musicians with all the major championship section bands).
Click on the hyperlinked names for more information.
| Instrument/Specialty | Part-Time Staff |
|---|---|
| Flute | John Barrow, Nicola Hunter, Alan Lockwood |
| Oboe | Valerie Taylor (Lockwood) |
| Saxophone | Sarah Markham |
| Clarinet | Alan Haydock, John Robinson |
| Bassoon | David Baker |
| Recorder | Ailsa Reid |
| Trumpet | David Chatterton |
| Cornet | Phillip McCann |
| French Horn | John Thornton |
| Tenor Horn | Melvyn Bathgate |
| Trombone | Jonathan Beatty, Les Storey |
| Euphonium | David Thornton |
| Tuba | Shaun Crowther |
| Percussion | Chris Bradley - Percussion Studies at the University of Huddersfield |
| Piano | Ian Buckle, Joan Dixon, Sally Ann Macleod, Keith Swallow |
| Violin | Helen Brackley-Jones, Concettina del Vecchio |
| Viola | Viv Campbell |
| Cello | Mary Cawood |
| Double Bass | Nicola Stables |
| Guitar | David Taplin |
| Harp | Anna Christensen |
| Voice | Andrew Slater, Paul Wade, Richard Pitts |
| Organ | Tom Moore |
| Conducting | Barrie Webb |
| Big Band | Sean Miller |
| Musicology | Mark Ellis, Tony Haywood, Scott McLaughlin, Elizabeth Fairweather |
| Composition | Duncan Druce, Professor Richard Steinitz, Nicholas Casswell, Nicholas Williams |
| Electroacoustic Music | Mark Bokowiec |
| Flugel Horn | Phillip McCann |
| Drum Kit | Paul Frances |
| Samba Band | Maggie O’Keeffe, Tony Wright |
| South Asian Arts Ensemble | Kehan Gehar |
| Folk group | Bob Davies |
| Funk group | Bob Davies |
| Music Technology | Lee Mills |
| Guitar (pop) | Michael MacSween |
| Piano (Jazz) | Sean Miller |
| Theory | Dr Julia Winterson, Mark Ellis, Elizabeth Fairweather |
| Scoring for brass band | Mark Robinson |
| Instrumentation | Professor Barry Russell |
| Community Music | Professor Barry Russell |
John Barrow studied flute with Geoffrey Gilbert at the Royal College of Music where he was awarded the Hiles Gold Medal. He has played with most of the British orchestras and, along with radio and television work, has a busy teaching schedule. John's interests include cricket, bird-watching, renovating old furniture, French holidays, post-impressionist art and playing golf, especially with his two sons.
Jonathan has worked as a professional musician for over twenty years. During this time he has played with an array of the country’s top orchestras including the orchestra of the National Ballet, Opera North, the London Concert Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia and the English Northern Philharmonic.
Jonathan has appeared on both film and television at numerous events. These include the film “Brassed Off”, a live transmission of the “Eurovision Song Contest” with an audience of two-hundred million, BBC “Proms in the Park”, “Songs of Praise” and most recently the “Paul O’Grady Show” with members of Grimethorpe Colliery Band.
He has performed in the backing orchestras to many household names such as Julian Lloyd Weber, Eveline Glenny, Leslie Garret, Nigel Kennedy, Topol, Hailey Westunbury, Willard White and Kate Rusby.
As a soloist of international repute Jonathan has played solos at iconic venues around the world including Sydney Opera House and Carnegie Hall. He has given master classes in many places including the City de la Musique and the Paris Conservatoire, working many times in this role for the British Trombone Society.
In addition to being a lecturer in Trombone at the University of Huddersfield, Jonathan is also currently a tutor in Lower Brass at Sheffield’s Birkdale School and teacher of Brass in schools including Nook Lane Junior School, Sheffield, where Jonathan is also a Governor.
Jonathan has had a fifteen year association with the Grimethorpe Colliery Band winning many major contests with them during this time. He has toured Europe, Australia, New Zealand, the USA and Japan with them. His solos are part of their extensive CD recordings. In the brass band world Jonathan is a popular guest for all the major brass bands in England.
Chris Bradley is principal percussionist with the Orchestra of Opera North, and is also well-known for his work as a player and teacher in the north of England in particular. His percussion work has involved performances with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta. Chris studied at Huddersfield Technical College and Huddersfield University before going on the study with Gilbert Webster at the Royal Northern College of Music. His varied career as a soloist has included the premier of Philip Wilby's Percussion Concerto, written for him by the composer. He has also acted as a concert organiser and compère for classical 'family' concerts, including a recent concert with the Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra.
www.chrisbradley.org.uk
and http://www.hud.ac.uk/mh/music/ensembles/percussion_studies.php
Helen Brackley-Jones is one of Huddersfield's team of violin teachers. She performs with a number of ensembles, including the Orchestra of Opera North.
Ian Buckle enjoys a busy and varied freelance career, working as soloist, accompanist, chamber musician, orchestral pianist and teacher.
His London debut came in 1996 with a recital at Wigmore Hall and he has given recitals in numerous U.K. festivals including Buxton, Harrogate, Huddersfield and Lichfield, the Ribble Valley International Piano Week and in the Bridgewater Hall for Manchester Midday Concerts. He has performed and broadcast recitals in France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Turkey and Canada; and has appeared on BBC radio and television, most recently on the Radio 3 programme ‘In Tune’.
Ian is a member of the piano-and-woodwind ensemble Zephyr; and the Elysnan Horn Trio, formed as students at the Royal Northern College of Music. His commitment to contemporary music is reflected in his work with the chamber groups Ensemble 10:10 and the Firebird Ensemble, and his piano duo with Richard Casey specialises in music of the last- and current centuries. As an accompanist he is in constant demand, performing and recording with singers and instrumentalists throughout the U.K. and in Europe, and he regularly plays orchestral piano in the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. He combines his performing career with a position as pianist-in-residence at Huddersfield University and teaching at Leeds University.
Engagements in 2006-7 include concertos with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of Opera North, the RLPO, Sinfonia Viva and the Manchester Concert Orchestra; piano-duo recitals of music by Boulez, Finnissy and Ligeti, a series of broadcasts with Ensemble 10:10, and concerts nationwide with BBC Young Musician winner Mark Simpson. Recent recordings include CDs of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” and solo- and chamber music by Humphrey Procter-Gregg, and a disc of works for trombone and piano will be released soon. Forthcoming projects include a disc of Schoenberg’s “Pierrot Lunaire” with the Firebird ensemble and numerous CDs of contemporary works with Ensemble 10:10.
Ian is an enthusiast of French Cinema and holds a season ticket at Sheffield Wednesday Football Club.
“Outstanding… Buckle is a pianist whose precision, power, musicianship and enviable composure allow us to experience the music without imposing superfluous affectation. His technique is dazzling, yet always in the service of the composer. A memorable event.” Yorkshire Post.
“Outstanding… Buckle is a pianist whose precision, power, musicianship and enviable composure allow us to experience the music without imposing superfluous affectation. His technique is dazzling, yet always in the service of the composer. A memorable event.” Yorkshire Post, October 2005.
Melvyn Bathgate teaches tenor horn at the University of Huddersfield. His professional engagements have included appearing as soloist on Grimethorpe Colliery Band's CD The Melody Shop in 1998, for the work 'One Day in Your Life'.
Mary Cawood teaches cello at the University of Huddersfield, and is well-known in the area for her work with the Kirklees Music School. She performs regularly, including work with the LUCHIP Ensemble, a local group who will play Mendelssohn and Brahms as part of a lecture recital in the RMA Research Students' Conference at the University of Leeds in 2006.
As well as teaching viola at the University of Huddersfield, Viv also plays as part of the Orchestra of Opera North.
Dr Nick Casswell studied at the Dartington College of Arts (BA with honors), the University of York (MA) and the University of Leeds (PhD in Composition). In 2000, he took research leave at Seoul National University in South Korea. Among his honors are the Audrey Pass Charitable Trust Scholarship (for study at the University of Leeds, 1999), a Samsung/Royal British Legion/BKVA scholarship (for study in South Korea, 1999) and First Prize at the Leeds Philosophical Society’s Millennium Composing Competition (for Papillon, 2000). His works Papillon and Chorisis were short-listed by the Society for the Promotion of New Music (2000-01) and he also won the competition at the International Young Composers Meeting in Apeldoorn (hosted by Louis Andriessen, 2001) and received an AHRB scholarship (for study at the University of Leeds, 2001). In 2002 – 2003,The Transformation and Other Stories was short-listed by the Society for the Promotion of New Music. Nick was awarded an AHRC Short-Term Fellowship at the School of Oriental and African Studies, researching the Korean folk music 'sanjo'. As a composer, he has enjoyed recent performances at York's New Music Festival and by Jane Manning.
E-mail address: nickcasswell@yahoo.co.uk
David Chatteron was trained at the Royal Northern College of Music and Manchester University, where his trumpet teachers were Alan Stringer and Howard Snell. Professional engagements as a freelance player have included performances with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic, Royal Shakespeare Company and the BBC Concert Orchestra. He has appeared on commercial and television recordings, and has toured internationally to placed including Helsinki, Madrid and Berlin. He is head of brass and percussion at Chetham's School of Music, and has taught at the University of Huddersfield since 1992.
Anna Christensen started as a harpist in New Zealand, where she undertook two diplomas and a Bachelor of Music degree. She read for her MA at the University of Wales, Cardiff, before returning to New Zealand to take up the post of Principal Harp with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Her freelance career has included work with the Hallé, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Ulster Orchestra and Sinfonia Viva, playing at venues including Convent Garden, the Royal Albert Hall and the Royal Opera House.
Shaun Crowther is perhaps best known as the E flat bass player in Grimethorpe Colliery UK Coal Band, though he held the position of principal tuba at Williams Fairey Brass Band for twenty-five years. Shaun has also played in a range of professional ensembles, such as the Halle Orchestra and the orchestra of Opera North. He studied as a mature student at the Royal Northern College of Music, graduating from the BA in 2001. At Huddersfield, Shaun teaches E flat and B flat tuba. His freelance career also includes teaching in Hull Music Service and for the National Youth Wind Orchestra.
Joan Dixon teaches both piano and recorder at the University of Huddersfield, where she has worked as both teacher and internal examiner for a number of years. Her work outside of the university has included teaching at the Universities of York, Leeds, Sheffield and Hull. Joan studied piano with Hans Solty, and recorder with Walter Bergmann and Frans Bruggen. She has appeared in countless recitals, some of the most prestigious venues including the Wigmore Hall, St John's Smith Square, and the Purcell Room. Joan is also an examiner for the ABRSM, both in the UK and in Ireland, Hong Kong and Malaysia.
Duncan Druce is part of the team of composition lecturers at Huddersfield. Well known as a performer on the violin and viola, particularly in the light of his career with Christopher Hogwood's Academy of Ancient Music, Duncan plays regularly as a soloist and ensemble player, including work with the Yorkshire Baroque Soloists. His interest in early music has led to his composition of a work for viol concert, The Garden of Cyrus, a piece commissioned by the ensemble Fretwork and performed at the Spitalfields Festival in 2007. As a scholar, his work on 'unfinished' Mozart repertoire is highly regarded; his completion of Mozart's Requiem (1984) was performed as part of the Proms series. His String Quartet No 4 was commissioned by the Swaledale Festival, and was premiered there in 2005 by the Fitzwilliam Quartet. It is now available on CD (Campion Cameo 2046).
Mark Ellis teaches theory, analysis and musicology (the Baroque period) at the University of Huddersfield. He is also a tutor at Huddersfield Technical College. Mark presented a paper to the American Bach Society at their Leipzig convention in May 2006: "Ritornello and Variation Processes in the Music of J.S. Bach". He has recently published an article, "Motif and Structure in Bach's Fifth Prelude [BWV 850]", in The Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute (Spring 2006).
E-mail address:MEllis@huddcoll.ac.uk
Alan Haydock is a self-taught clarinettist, whose initial training and career was in biochemistry. He started playing in 50s and 60s dance bands, later performing with a number of chamber ensembles, orchestras and wind bands, including the Leeds Wind Quintet and Free Trade Winds. In 1979 he became the Assistant Principal Clarinettist with the Hallé, and Alan played with this orchestra until 2002.
Tony Haywood graduated from Huddersfield University with First Class Honours, having studied composition with John Casken, piano with Michael Holloway and singing with David Lennox. His undergraduate degree dissertation was on the the relationship of text and music in the operas of Richard Strauss, and his research interests still centre around music of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He writes regularly for MusicWeb International, an internet review site, for which he has provided many CD and concert reviews, as well as composer profiles and interviews, including John Casken and Magnus Lindberg. He is on the committee of Huddersfield Recorded Music Society, giving regular illustrated lectures, the most recent being on the Viennese-American composer Erich Korngold. He is also active in theatre, having directed and acted in productions at the Lawrence Batley Theatre and Bradford Playhouse. He currently teaches Musicology and Study Skills for music.
Nicola Hunter has a widely acclaimed reputation as a flautist, piccolo and alto flute player. Her professional engagements have included regular work with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra, Glyndebourne Touring Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Welsh National Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Northern Chamber Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, English National Ballet and the Viva Orchestra. Nicola began her studies at Chethams School of Music, before taking a Bachelor in Education course at Bretton Hall in Wakefield. Nicola has appeared as a soloist on many occasions, and has appeared on a number of CD recordings with the Northern Chamber Orchestra for the Naxos label, playing music by Mozart, Haydn and Mendelssohn. She also teaches as Leeds and Manchester Metropolitan universities.
Alan Lockwood studied the flute at the Royal Academy of Music before embarking on a career as a performer with a number of prestigious ensembles. He has held posts as principle flute with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the Band of Irish Guards and with the Scottish National Orchestra (now the Royal Scottish National Orchestra).
Sharon Lyons teaches clarinet at Huddersfield, and performs professionally with groups including the contemporary music ensemble Black Hair.
Sally Ann MacLeod teaches performance and piano studies at Huddersfield, including individual tuition, piano duets and Studies in Performance. Sally Ann studied at the Royal Northern College of Music and subsequently with Vlado Perlemuter and Stephen Kovacevich. She has appeared as a soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Scottish National Symphony Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia and Manchester Camerata, under conductors including Yan Pascal Tortelier, Edward Downes, Charles Groves, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Neeme Jarvi, Rudolf Schwarz, Richard Armstrong, Andrew Litton, Sian Edwards, Barry Wordsworth and Nicholas Cleobery. She is also Principal Tutor in Keyboard at the Royal Northern College of Music.
Sarah Markham teaches saxophone, including all the various sizes of instrument. Sarah studied at the Royal Northern College of Music gaining a Degree and Professional Performer's Diploma (with Distinction, 1992), and at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA where she gained a Master in Music Degree (1994), with scholarships from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and the Sir James Caird Trust. She has enjoyed competition success with the Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition and the Park Lane Group. Sarah has performed all over Britain, including the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room, and at the Last Night of the Marble Hill Proms for English Heritage. Further afield, Sarah has performed in Germany, Belgium, Spain, America and Canada. She has also broadcast live on Radio 3 and Classic FM radio. Sarah is a busy freelance player, and was recently on tour around the UK with 'Singing in the Rain'. She is also a member of the Adelphi Saxophone Quartet, whose CD Simply Four Saxophones was released in 1998 by EMI.
Phillip McCann is one of the best-known names in the Brass Band world. He was born in Bo'ness, Scotland, where he began his playing career with the Kinneil Colliery band at the age of eight. He held the position of principal comet with the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain for five years. At the age of fourteen he became principal comet with the Yorkshire Imperial Metals Band. Four years later he was persuaded to join the ranks of the Fairey Engineering Band as principal comet, advancing to the same position with the famous Men O' Brass. In 1973 he became principal comet of the world-famous Black Dyke Mills Band, and held that position until 1988. He has toured extensively as a recitalist in Europe, the U.S.A., Japan Australia and New Zealand, and in this country he has played in all the prestigious venues together with radio broadcasts and appearances on television. Although Phillip continues to be actively involved as a soloist and teacher, in recent years he has progressively increased his activities as a conductor, being the founder and Musical Director of the Sellers Engineering Band and, until recently, the Musical Director of the Britannia Building Society Band of Sandbach, Cheshire.
Phillip's recordings of The World's Most Beautiful Melodies are universally admired for the exquisite tone and musical expression in the playing, and are featured regularly on BBC Radio and Classic FM. His unique style and tone quality have been used by composers to combine with orchestra for film and TV soundtracks, such as Anna of the Five Towns, Woman of Substance and Hetty Wainthropp Investigates. Philip McCann directs the University of Huddersfield's Brass Band and Symphonic Wind Orchestras, and teaches the cornet.
Scott McLaughlin was born in Co. Clare. His early musical experiences included playing in rock bands before studying music at the University of Ulster at Jordanstown, where he gained a B.Mus degree in 2001. After completing MA studies at the University of Huddersfield in 2005, he is currently in the 2nd year of a full-time PhD with financial support from an Arts Council Professional Development and Training Award and a Bursary from the School of Music, Humanities and Media.
He was a student at Ostrava Days 2005 in the Czech Republic and has attended the Ennis/IMRO Composition Summer School from 2000 to 2002. His music has been performed by Concorde, Simon Mawhinney, the Goldberg Ensemble, Soosvuk Ensemble, COMA Yorkshire, Firebird Ensemble and flautist Susan Doyle. He has received a number of awards, including the Siemens Feis Ceoil IMRO Award in 2005 and the Mostly Modern/IMRO Young Composers' Competition in 2003.
As a performer, Scott McLaughlin is active in the field of live electronics and free improvisation. He performs regularly with the group 'Murmansk' and the 'Deserted Village Collective' and has released several albums on independent labels in Ireland and Europe.
Website: www.lutins.co.uk
Tom Moore teaches the organ at the University of Huddersfield, and is assistant organist at Wakefield Cathedral. A well-respected soloist, he has appeared in numerous recitals, including playing as part of the BBC's Songs of Praise programme.
Richard Pitts is one of Huddersfield’s vocal tutors, and specialises in the performance of popular music. He has studied with Graham Godfrey in London, Dr J Dillard in North Carolina, and at the University of Sheffield. His professional engagements have included work with The Velours and The Fantastics Soul Bands, Glyndebourne Festival Opera and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Ailsa Reid teaches recorder at Huddersfield, alongside a busy professional career that has included work with the Yorkshire Baroque Soloists, Opera North and the ensemble Compagnia d'Istrumenti. Ailsa's postgraduate tuition with Pamela Thorby followed earlier study at the Music School of Douglas Academy and the University of Glasgow. Prizes have included the Dixon Scholarship (University of York), the Sir Thomas Beecham Scholarship (University of Glasgow) and the Muriel Thorne Hague Memorial Prize.
John Robinson, one of Huddersfield’s clarinet tutors, has been the sub-principal clarinet at Opera North since 1990. His training was at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand (with Alan Gold) and with John McCaw at Goldsmith’s College, London. He specialises in orchestral playing, and has a particular interest in encouraging players to broaden their skills on E flat and Bass clarinets.
Nicola Stables teaches double bass at the University of Huddersfield, as well as working as a performer and teacher elsewhere. She plays professionally with Viva, the Orchestra of the East Midlands.
www.impulse-music.co.uk/standford.htm
Richard Steinitz retired from the full-time staff in 2004, and was awarded an Hon DLitt and title of Emeritus Professor by the University. He was for many years a leading member of the composition staff specialising in twentieth-century music. He continues to teach composition part-time and is a frequent guest lecturer at universities and conservatoires both in the UK and abroad. In 1978 Richard founded, and was for 23 years artistic director of Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, which is closely linked to the University and has become one of the most important new music festivals in the world. Since its inception the Festival has welcomed to Huddersfield virtually all major living composers, key members of the music profession, students, impressively large audiences from Britain and abroad, plus many of the finest international soloists and ensembles performing numerous UK and world premieres.
Richard was a music scholar at King’s College Cambridge. He studied composition with Anthony Milner and later with Goffredo Petrassi on an Italian government scholarship in Rome. He won second prize in the 1978 BBC Young Composers Competition for Songs from the 1001 Nights and the Clements Memorial Prize for Chamber Music for his Quartet in Memoriam in 1981. He is also a musicologist and writer, having contributed to many journals, reference aand other books. He is author of the leading book in English on the Hungarian composer György Ligeti, co-published in 2003 by Faber & Faber and by Northeastern University Press in the USA where it won an award ‘for excellence’ from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers His development of the Contemporary Music Festival has been recognised by several distinctions, including conferment of an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 1995.
Les Storey studied trombone at the Royal College of Music before embarking on a varied career as a freelance musician. He plays regularly with orchestras including the Hallé, the BBC Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. In addition, he teaches bass trombone as Chetham's and at the Royal Northern College of Music.
David Taplin teaches the classical guitar at the University of Huddersfield, encouraging his students both as soloists and as chamber musicians.
Valerie Taylor (ARAM, LRAM, ARCM) was born in Huddersfield and comes from a musical family. Lessons with Michael Winfield, then in the Halle Orchestra, let to an Open Scholarship to study with Janet Craxton at the Royal Academy of Music. After winning scholarships from the Arts Council and Countess of Munster Trust for further study in Paris, Valerie was appointed Principal Oboe of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, a position she held for almost ten years. A move to Manchester with flautist husband, Alan Lockwood, coincided with the inception of the Manchester Camerata. Val was invited to join the orchestra and remained its Principal Oboe for twenty-five years. After a busy and fulfilling, varied playing career, including performance in many of the country's orchestras, Val is enjoying teaching the oboe at the Royal Northern College of Music, Chetham's School of Music, the University of Manchester and the University of Huddersfield.
French horn tutor John Thornton studied under Ken Monks at Chetham’s School of Music, where he received the final year Brass Prize. He continued his studies at the Royal Northern College of Music, with Hugh Potts, and while he was there played with the European Youth Orchestra. For the past twelve years, John has played 1st Horn for the Northern Ballet Theatre, and this year joined the Halle Orchestra. He has played freelance with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic, the Opera North Camerata and the Halle, amongst other ensembles. His high level of experience and positive attitude to teaching our students ensures that those who want to succeed will do so.
David Thornton studied at the Royal Northern College of Music with Steven Mead. At Huddersfield, he teaches euphonium and baritone, combining this role with his busy schedule as principal euphonium with the Black Dyke Band amongst other engagements. In 2001, David was awarded the title of International Euphonium Player of the Year. His solo CD recording, Three Worlds, was released in 2004.
Email David
www.davidthornton.eu.com
Bass-baritone Andrew Slater was born in Cheshire and worked as a Physics teacher before studying at the Royal Northern College of Music. He joined the Glyndebourne chorus in 1990 and was given the John Christie Award, which provided for a period of study at the Saint Petersburg Conservatoire. He now performs with the major UK opera companies and in Europe. Performing with companies including English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera and Glyndebourne Touring Opera, his previous roles have included: Basilio in the Barber of Seville, Colline in La Boheme, Pluto in Orfeo (ENO), Poacher in The Cunning Little Vixen, and Masetto in Don Giovanni. Recently, Andrew has sung in works ranging from Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier to Simon Holt's Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm?
Paul Wade is one of Huddersfield's team of vocal teachers, as well as taking a major role in the University's opera productions. His work with the Opera Class included directing Purcell's Dido and Aeneas in 2005. Paul sings with the chorus of Opera North, sometimes taking on solo roles in productions.
Julia Winterson has many years experience of teaching in colleges and universities. She has also worked as the qualification leader for Edexcel (involving the development of music specifications for Curriculum 2000) and as Head of New Music for Peters Edition. Publications include four anthologies of music for schools and Pop Music: The Text Book. She is a member of the Music Publishers Association Education and Training Group and the International Society of Contemporary Music British Section. Her DPhil research was into the education work of orchestras and opera companies. She is currently researching into the transition from school to university in music and related subjects, combining this with part-time lecturing at the University of Huddersfield.
