Cello and Alexander Technique Summer Course 3-10 August 2022 with Gillian Thoday and Poppy Walshaw
Venue:- The Yorke Trust, Norfolk Age range 16 years upwards
This is a concentrated course combining daily cello and Alexander Technique lessons, with the opportunity of working regularly with a professional pianist and of playing in informal concerts. There will be cello ensembles in the evenings and also some time off to explore the wonderful environment of rural Norfolk. Gillian initiated these cello and Alexander Technique summer courses some ten years ago. They have proved enormously beneficial for students in encouraging greater physical ease of playing, and freedom and confidence in performing. Gillian studied in Germany with the great cello pedagogue Andre Navarra. She has taught at the Guildhall School of Music Junior Department and at Chethams School for more than thirty years and at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester since 2009. Many of her students have won awards and are now successful members of the music profession. As a performer she has given solo recitals in most of the major recital venues in London and made broadcasts for radio and television. As a freelance cellist she has worked with both symphony and chamber orchestras in London and as a session player. Poppy has been teaching the Alexander Technique for ten years, alongside performing as a freelance cellist specialising on period instruments. She teaches one to one and in workshops, including for Cambridge University Music Faculty. Whilst studying in Germany with Alexander Baillie and at Guildhall with Louise Hopkins, she found Alexander lessons an invaluable support in developing awareness and ease, both technically and in the processes of performing and practicing. As a baroque cellist she plays as a continuo cellist with the English Baroque Soloists (Gardiner) and Hanover Band and is a frequent soloist with Fiori Musicali and Arte dei Suonatori of Poland.
The cost of the course is £750.00 to include all tuition, accommodation and meals, and transport from Kings Lynn for anyone arriving by train.
Contact details for Gillian Thoday:- email:- gthoday@gmail.com mobile:- 07887541765
Dates for your Diary:
Cello Concert 9 August, 17.30 The Old Chapel Strozzi! Community Chorus course 24 September, 1 October, 7 October, 8 October. Strozzi! 8 October 19.00 St Mary's Church
The Yorke Trust | UK Charitable Incorporated Organisation No. 1158927 | Phone: +44 1328 823501
