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A prize-winning graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, Lou Bradbury recently received the honour of an Associateship from the RAM, for her work as a musician. As a professional recorder player, specialising in baroque and contemporary music, Lou performs regularly at music festivals with fontanella and passacaglia and has recorded for BBC Radio 3, BBC TV and LINN records, including an appearance in the "Zingzillas'" Glade! She has given music workshops at hundreds of schools across the UK and has taught or examined at most of the UK's leading music colleges. Lou is currently the visiting recorder teacher at Christ's Hospital School, Horsham. Lou plays recorders, flute, piano and ukulele at Little Notes sessions. The founder of Little Notes in 2005, Lou has delivered hundreds of sessions and loves the joy of bringing music to families. She is the happy (and occassionally flustered) mummy of 3 daughters. Lou currently runs sessions in Horsham and Dorking.

Mark Bradbury is a professional classical tenor and an honours graduate of the Royal Academy of Music. He has travelled the world with opera companies and orchestras from the London Proms to New York and has even had platinum hit records singing 80s pop songs in the style of Gregorian Chant! He is passionate about working with children and has led workshops for Children's Music Workshop and Glyndebourne Opera, with whom he still sings from time to time. Mark is married to Lou and is completely outnumbered by his additional three girls. During Little Notes sessions, Mark leads with his voice, but also plays guitar, flute, piano and ukelele. Mark leads sessions in Horsham and Chichester.



From the age of 13, Judith Souter studied at Chethams’ School of Music in Manchester, where she quickly gained a passion for chamber music. She became principal cellist with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and performed with the orchestra as a concerto soloist. Judith studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London and was awarded several prizes for chamber music and solo Bach performances. Judith was a founder member of the Medea String Quartet, prize-winners in the Shostakovich String Quartet Competition in St. Petersburg. Judith is an experienced cello teacher, having taught at Wycombe Abbey Girls’ School, Clifton College and Marlborough College. A mother of three young children, Judith is passionate about all children fulfilling their musical potential from the earliest age. At Little Notes, Judith will play the cello and the piano. Judith runs Little Notes Cardiff.