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.


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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.