Run only by professional musicians steeped in
educational experience...
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.