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Our peripatetic music teachers

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FOREWORD

by the Director of Music At Sutton High School, we greatly value the enrichment that participating

in musical activities can bring. The potential benefits of learning a

musical instrument have been well-researched and documented;

besides the obvious musical benefits and the opportunities for getting

involved in bands, orchestras, choirs and various other ensembles,

research suggests that there are non-musical benefits too, ranging

from improved numeracy and literacy skills through to greater self-

confidence and lower stress levels. In addition, learning an instrument

can help an individual to develop a life-long love of music with all the

associated pleasure that that can bring.

Sutton High School has a strong team of enthusiastic and dedicated

peripatetic music teachers who provide lessons on a wide variety of musical

instruments and voice. Weekly lessons are typically 30 minutes long and, for 2017-18, cost within

the range of £180 to £200 per term for 10 individual lessons. Our teachers are all highly talented,

practising musicians with many years of training and experience at the very top of the music

profession.

This booklet has been compiled to enable you to see, and appreciate, the very high calibre of

music teaching staff that we have at the school, each teacher bringing with them a wealth of

experience to the individual lessons with their pupils.

If you wish to apply for lessons, please contact me, or Miss Delany in the Junior School, for a

Request for Instrumental Lessons form. If you have any additional queries about Music at Sutton

High School, please do not hesitate to get in touch with me.

Yours sincerely,

Mr James Hargraves

Director of Music

j.hargraves@sut.gdst.net

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A graduate of the prestigious Academy of Contemporary Music,

Ben has been playing the guitar for many years and in that

time has built up a vast experience of performing the guitar

within the music industry, supporting or playing for bands such

as the Kaiser Chiefs, Maxïmo Park and The Kooks.

He has played in gigs at Brixton Academy, Birmingham NEC,

the Reading Festival, the Download Festival, Aberdeen SEC,

Edinburgh SECC and Glasgow SECC. Frequent TV appearances

have included Blue Peter, CBBC Xchange and London Tonight.

Ben has written and recorded with some of the UK’s top

producers and songwriters including multi-platinum selling

producer/songwriter Jake Gosling. In addition, Ben has several

years’ experience of teaching the guitar and taught for several

years at the Realistic Rock Academy in Epsom. He also plays

guitar for ‘The One and Only’ Chesney Hawkes!

Mr Ben

Allison Higher Diploma, The Academy

of Contemporary Music

ACOUSTIC / BASS /

ELECTRIC GUITAR

Edmund Crutchfield studied Clarinet, Piano and Singing in

Huddersfield at the School of Music (now Huddersfield

University) for three years, then for a further year at the

College of St. Mark & St. John in Chelsea.

He has had a wide and varied career in teaching the clarinet

and saxophone, performing, conducting, adjudicating and

examining for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of

Music (ABRSM) as well as coaching ensembles.

Edmund has worked at Sutton High School for many years, as

well as a number of primary and secondary schools in the

South East. For 15 years he was Head of Woodwind Teaching

for the London Borough of Bromley.

He performs regularly, and is the founder of the Mozart Wind

Ensemble. He is also busily involved, together with his wife, in

the organisation and running of the weekly Thursday

lunchtime concerts at St. Matthew’s Church, Redhill.

Mr Edmund

Crutchfield ARCM; Diploma in Music,

University of Huddersfield;

Teacher’s Certificate of

Education, University of

London

CLARINET

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Miss Fiona

Harrison MM, Yale University; GRSM

(Hons), Royal College of Music;

DipRCM, Royal College of Music

CLASSICAL GUITAR

Guitarist Fiona Harrison graduated from the Royal College of

Music and subsequently gained a Master of Music degree from

Yale University, USA. She has performed solo recitals

throughout the country, performed Rodrigo’s fiendishly

difficult masterpiece, Concierto d’Aranjuez with many

orchestras and is equally at ease with smaller chamber groups.

Fiona has been featured on television and BBC Radio, and has

worked as an ensemble musician, appearing at venues

including London’s Purcell Room and Barbican Centre.

Fiona worked for the ABRSM professional development team

for many years and co-hosted many hugely popular residential

flute and guitar courses with her former flautist, Julie Wright,

in the UK and abroad. She has been the featured guest soloist

and tutor at various guitar festivals, including the

“International Summer School” at West Dean and she is an

experienced music festival adjudicator.

Fiona’s latest CD, The Legend of Hagoromo, features exciting

contemporary guitar music from Australia and Japan.

Links: https://youtu.be/SF10vtfTcDk

and www.fionaharrison.co.uk

Mr

Jonathan

Hollick MPerf (Dist), RCM; BMus (Hons)

BRASS

Jonathan Hollick started playing the trombone aged 14. He

was first taught the basics by his father, but continued his

development by teaching himself, before gaining a place at

the Royal College of Music in 2011 where he was supported by

the Sir Philip Shelbourne scholarship and studied under the

tuition of Byron Fulcher (Philharmonia Orchestra) and Lindsay

Shilling (Royal Opera House Orchestra). Upon joining the RCM,

Jonathan was made principal trombone of the RCM Symphony

and Philharmonic orchestras.

In both 2014 and 2015, Jonathan won the RCM trombone prize

in the brass solo competition, supported by the Herbert

Samuel Memorial Foundation. After graduating from the RCM

with a first class degree, Jonathan continued his studies at the

RCM by completing a Masters in Performance degree, for

which he achieved a distinction. He has been privileged to

work in some of the UK’s top professional orchestras including

the London Chamber Orchestra, the City of London Sinfonia,

the London Sinfonietta, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the

Philharmonia. Jonathan is currently working with the BBC

Scottish Symphony Orchestra and is on trial with the

Birmingham Royal Ballet orchestra.

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Liz graduated from the Royal College of Music in 2005 where

she studied with Christopher Cowie, David Theodore, Gareth

Hulse and Sarah Francis. During this time, she was also invited

to perform in masterclasses in Switzerland with Albrecht

Mayer, Jean-Louis Capezzali and Emanuel Abbuhl.

Since leaving music college, Liz has freelanced as an oboist

and cor anglais player with many orchestras and ensembles,

including the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, National

Symphony Orchestra, British Philharmonic and National

Chamber Orchestra of Wales. Her commercial experience

includes album recordings for Katie Melua, Russell Watson and

Bob Blakeley.

Liz is passionate about music education and is ambitious for

her students, adapting her teaching approach to each

individual to help them achieve their goals. In addition to

teaching oboe at Sutton High School, Liz teaches oboe, piano

and recorder at Prospect House School, The Unicorn School

and for Sutton Music Service.

Miss Liz

Horseman BMus (Hons), RCM

OBOE

Abi enjoys a versatile career as a cellist. As a chamber

musician she has performed at the Wigmore Hall, Kings Place,

the Purcell Room and St. Martin-in-the-Fields and a number of

prestigious festivals both in the UK and abroad. Recent

orchestral work includes concerts and tours with the Hallé and

RTÉ Symphony Orchestras and the London Mozart Players.

Abi’s competition successes include 1st prize in the May Mukle

Prize for Virtuosic Cello Playing, the Ruth Waddell Award, the

Rhonda Butt Award and the Amy Lindley Prize for Cello. She

was also a founding member of the Bernadel Quartet.

Following achieving a distinction for her postgraduate studies

at the Royal Academy of Music, Abi was awarded the Meaker

Fellowship, a prize which goes to one graduating student each

year. She completed her undergraduate studies at the Royal

Northern College of Music and the University of Manchester,

where she completed the prestigious joint course with

first class honours.

Abi is a passionate music teacher and regularly coaches and

leads workshops at Hindhead Music Centre as well as starting

up her own Cello School in Notting Hill in 2015. As an ex-SHS

student she is thrilled to return to her roots and be part of the

Music Department at Sutton High School!

Link: http://youtu.be/_YIARtMviXs

Miss Abi

Hyde-Smith MA (Dist), RAM; DipRAM;

GRNCM/MusB (Hons)

CELLO

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Chris Kimber is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music in

London, where he studied orchestral percussion alongside

composition and electronic music.

As a freelance percussionist, Chris has performed in most of

the major UK concert halls and has made many recordings for

TV and radio. He has appeared alongside several major artists

including Sir Cliff Richard, Lesley Garrett and Gloria Gaynor.

Chris was appointed an Examiner for the London College of

Music in 2010, examining in all styles of music.

As a musician and composer working largely in the field of

New Age and choral music, he composed in 2003 the music for

the widely distributed Enhancing your Mind, Body and Spirit

Partwork series, the first album of which sold over 300,000

copies in the UK alone, following which he produced a further

six albums for the series which have been sold in over 14

countries worldwide. He has also written numerous radio

jingles and provided music for several plays. Current

composing projects include short musicals for young children.

Chris currently enjoys a career with a mix of performing,

teaching and examining and runs the Cantate Academy of

Performing Arts with his wife. In his spare time, he enjoys

being “Daddy” to his two young boys!

Mr Chris

Kimber GGSM

PERCUSSION

A graduate of the London College of Music, Natalie studied

piano and violin under Clifford Benson and Philipa Mo. After

obtaining her BMus (Hons) degree and ALCM performance

diploma, Natalie’s passion for teaching led her to train at the

Institute of Education, University of London and gain a PGCE.

Natalie’s varied career has included working in the record

industry and for music services around London teaching piano

and violin, and coaching various ensembles. She has performed

in the Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris and St. Paul’s Cathedral.

In 2001, Natalie won the KPMG Music in the Community Award

after leading an inner London music outreach project.

A committed teacher, Natalie worked in the Sutton High

School Music Department between 2004 and 2013. After the

birth of her son, she returned as a peripatetic piano and violin

teacher. She has also held positions at the London College of

Music Junior College and the Harrodian School.

During her 15 years of teaching experience, Natalie has

prepared pupils for examinations, auditions and competitions.

Former pupils have gained places at conservatoires such as

Trinity College London, the Royal Academy of Music and the

Royal Northern College of Music.

Ms Natalie

Pritchard BMus (Hons); ALCM; PGCE

VIOLIN / PIANO

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Professional soprano, Eleanor Sanderson-Nash, graduated from

the Royal Northern College of Music with a first class honours

degree. She subsequently achieved a distinction for a Masters

of Performance degree at the Royal College of Music where

she was an RCM Award Holder and won first prize in the RCM

Lieder Competition in 2017. She was also the recipient of the

Ted Moss and Bertha Taylor-Stach Prize.

Eleanor has a great deal of performing experience; recent

engagements have included Haydn’s St Nicholas Mass,

Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Mozart’s Requiem and

Coronation Mass and Handel’s Messiah.

Operatic and music theatre roles have included Helena in

Britten’s A Midsummer Night's Dream, Nanetta in Verdi’s

Falstaff, Despina in Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte and April in

Sondheim’s Company. Most recently, she sang the role of

Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni at Opera Holland Park as part

of their Young Artist scheme, and First Woman in Judith Weir's

The Vanishing Bridegroom for British Youth Opera.

Link: www.eleanornash.com

Miss

Eleanor

Sanderson-

Nash MPerf (Dist), RCM; BMus (Hons)

VOICE

Chris graduated from the London College of Music in 2002,

obtaining a first class Bachelor of Music degree and a Masters

degree with distinction. In 2017, he completed a PhD for

which he researched aspects of organ performance.

As a performer, Chris has performed extensively throughout

the UK and internationally, having played in Singapore, Kuala

Lumpur and Bahrain as well as Europe. Notable recital venues

have included the Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris, the Queen

Elizabeth Hall, London and the Duke’s Hall, Royal Academy of

Music. Chris has appeared on national television and has had

solo recordings played on BBC Radio Two.

A dedicated teacher, Chris has a wealth of experience both in

one-to-one teaching and group environments. He was Head of

Department at the LCM Junior College between 2001 to 2015

and has also worked as a consultant for Yamaha Music Schools,

directing performance projects in London and Milan.

Chris combines his role as a teacher and performer with that

of a Music Examiner and is associated with a number of major

examination boards. Chris’ experience as an examiner and

adjudicator has proved invaluable in encouraging SHS pupils to

achieve their best and develop a life-long passion for music.

Dr

Christopher

Stanbury MMus (Dist); BMus (Hons);

ALCM; LLCM; FLCM; PhD

PIANO

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Charlotte graduated from Durham University with a first class

honours degree in Music, before winning a scholarship to study

at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, from which

she graduated with an MA in Orchestral Performance. During

this time, she studied with distinguished players such as Sarah

Newbold and Helen Keen, and has performed in a number of

master classes with flautists such as William Bennett and

Adam Walker.

Charlotte has played with a number of orchestras including the

Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra, the Welsh National

Opera and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. As a soloist

she often gives recitals and has won many awards including

the Musicians Benevolent Fund Postgraduate Performance

Award for 2013-14, and she was a finalist in the RWCMD

concerto competition.

Charlotte has much experience as a flute teacher and

currently teaches in a number of schools around Sutton,

Cheam and Purley. She is passionate about passing on her love

of the flute to future generations.

Miss

Charlotte

Wilson MA, RWCMD; BA (Hons);

DipABRSM

FLUTE

Kirsten started playing violin at the age of 7. She was a music

scholar at Headington girls’ school, and attended the Royal

College of Music Junior Department, before winning a

scholarship to the Royal Northern College of Music, where she

studied with Yossi Zivoni and Ben Holland. She then went back

to the Royal College of Music for her postgraduate studies,

studying with Rodney Friend.

Kirsten has played in many professional orchestras including

the BBC Philharmonic and orchestras for various film

soundtracks. She regularly performs with the Barber String

Quartet, and has performed in a quartet on BBC Radio 2.

Kirsten has had experience of teaching a wide range of

students from age 4 to 65. She has much experience as a violin

teacher, having taught at The Abbey School, Hill House

International School and Fulham Prep School. She has also

taught at the Royal Academy of Music Junior Department.

Miss

Kirsten

Wilson BA; PGDip, RCM

VIOLIN

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