Run only by professional musicians steeped in
educational experience...
A prize-winning graduate of the
Royal Academy of Music,
Lou
Bradbury has given music workshops at
hundreds of schools, prisons and special-needs schools
across the UK and has taught at most of the UK's
leading music colleges including the Guildhall School
of Music and Drama. As one of the world's few
professional recorder players 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. Lou will bring
various members of the recorder family to the
sessions, as well as her flute and will be seen
tinkling the ivories. Lou has worked as an early years
music leader for SureStart Crawley and Homestart
Horsham and Crawley. She has also worked as a music
leader for the West Sussex Creatability project in
nursery schools and children's centres across West
Sussex.
Mark Bradbury is a professional
operatic 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 many workshops
across the UK. for
Glyndebourne Opera, with whom he
sang for 6 years and Children's Music Workshop. During
the sessions, Mark leads with his voice, but also
plays guitar, flute and piano.
**LAUNCHING OUR DORKING SESSION**
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.