Royal Academy of Music
Charlotte Scott (violin) has become a sought-after and renowned recitalist and chamber musician. She has recently performed in venues such as the Purcell Room, St Martin's in the Fields, St James Piccadilly, Fairfield Hall, Senate House, Kettles Yard and in various music festivals in the UK. She has also been invited to perform various works in the Mozart, Haydn and Brahms festivals. She holds a range of prizes and scholarships including Croyden Concerto Competition first prize, Rosalie Inskip Trust awards, Jerwood Foundation awards, MBF Education Award and The Louise Childs Fund.
Charlotte began playing the violin at the age of seven, and went to study at the Royal Northern College of Music with When Zoi Lee. At the age of 10 she made her debut performance of Beethoven Romances with orchestra in York Minster. After receiving a DFEE scholarship, she went to study at Wells Cathedral School where she performed as a soloist and with the Johan Piano Trio throughout the UK and Malaysia. During her four years there she was invited to take part in the Ninth Yfrah Neamen International Violin Competition where she reached the semi-finals.
In 2001 she was awarded a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music where she studied under Mateja Marinkovic and Marianne Thorsen and in 2003, she won a full scholarship to spend six months studying in Boston at the New England Conservatory and was invited back to take part in the IMI Festival in Maine. Charlotte graduated with First Class Honours and she is currently completing her Post Graduate Diploma.
Charlotte has attended IMS Prussia Cove for two years where she performed in concerts and masterclasses with Ida Haendle and Ferenc Rados. Other masterclasses in which she has participated include those by Mauricio Fuks, Thomas Brandis, Sylvia Rosenberg, Zvi Zitlen, Tibor Varga Alexander Pablovic and Levon Chilingirian.
James Baillieu (piano), one of South Africa's top young pianists and accompanists, received the Bachelor of Music (Performance) degree with distinction at the University of Cape Town in 2004. He studied piano under Graham Fitch and François du Toit, and the clarinet under Jimmy Reinders. Before enrolling at UCT, he completed an Individualised Programme of Study in piano and accompaniment in 2001 at Trinity College of Music, London, where he also participated in master classes given by Martino Tirimo, Phillip Fowke, Steven Bishop, Alfred Brendel and John Bingham. On his return to South Africa James received Trinity College Licentiates in both piano and clarinet with the highest distinction. As a distinguished music student at UCT he was awarded all the piano prizes, including the Contrapuntal Prize, the Sonata Prize, the Concerto Prize, the class medal and the Leonard Hall and Johnny Windham scholarships. He won the first Laura Searle Piano Competition and was the winner of the piano category in the Eric Chisholm Centenary Competition. He also won the Stellenbosch Conservatoire's Rachmaninov Piano Competition in 2003.
In May last year James participated in the International Russian Piano Competition in California at which as a laureate he was awarded a scholarship to study in Vienna. At the Vienna International Pianists Academy he was awarded the Rosario Marciano prize for an eminent artistic personality. James has received a full scholarship from the Royal Academy of Music in London and is completing his postgraduate studies with Michael Dussek and Kathryn Stott as well as continuing his performing and accompanying career that is already under way in Europe, Asia and the United States.
Timothy Orpen (clarinet) was born in 1983 in Australia, and began his musical studies shortly after moving to England at the age of 8. He was educated at Wells Cathedral School and Chethams School of Music before accepting a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music. At the Royal Academy he has won numerous prizes and awards, including the Geoffrey Hawkes Clarinet prize and the Nicholas Blake woodwind prize. He was also the winner of a bursary in the Shell / London Symphony Orchestra competition and was a woodwind finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year 2002. Last year he was the overall winner of the Royal Over-Seas League music competition.
Timothy has performed with the Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, London Chamber Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He is also principal clarinet and a founding member of the Aurora Orchestra.
As a soloist, Timothy has performed across the UK and Europe, including broadcasts for BBC radio and television. He has taken part in courses and masterclasses with artists including Sabine Meyer and Michael Collins and in 2005 he studied in Germany under Wolfgang Meyer. Whilst at the RAM, he has studied with Angela Malsbury, Nicholas Rodwell and Mark Van de Wiel.
Future solo engagements include a recital at the Wigmore Hall supported by the Royal Over-Seas League and a performance of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto at the Royal Albert Hall, conducted by Sir David Willcocks. Other engagements include a series of concerts at the Edinburgh Festival and recitals at the Purcell Room, St. Martin in the Fields and St. Georges, Bristol. Timothy has been selected for the recital scheme of the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and is supported by the Park Lane Group, Philharmonia Orchestra / Martin Musical Scholarship Fund and the Musicians Benevolent Fund.