Staff A-Z

Nadine has a PG Cert (Distinction) in Vocal Pedagogy from The Voice Study Centre and The University of Wales Trinity St David. She also has a BA Hons Degree in Modern European Studies and French and a Deug Lettres Modernes from The Sorbonne University in Paris.

Her research specialism and interest is the vocal health of undergraduate performers in full time Musical Theatre training.

She is a proud associate of renowned singing teacher Mark Meylan, having been trained and mentored by him. She is an active member of the BVA, AOTOS, The Musician’s Union, Equity and Spotlight.

She runs a successful private online singing studio and has students working across the entertainment industry. She is also a resident singing teacher at Emil Dale Academy. She has been been a singing teacher for nearly 30 years alongside her performing career.

Module Leader and Academic Supervisor

BA Musical Theatre Performance

As the Module Leader for Creative Research Pathways, a second-year module in the BA (Hons) Musical Theatre Performance, I oversee a practice-led research project that allows students to explore the diverse roles available within the musical theatre industry. This involves organising and facilitating workshops with visiting industry professionals. So far, we’ve welcomed a variety of experts, including Jake Brunger, Priya Patel Appleby, Grace Currie, Kate Marlais, Alice Eklund, among others.

Additionally, I provide academic supervision to third-year students for their dissertation unit, the Creative Research Project.

Richard enjoys a well balanced musical lifestyle which encompasses all the essential elements of a musician and instrumentalist of the 21st century. He studied violin and viola with Nicholas Roth at Trinity College of Music and went on to work with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Mozart Players and the original London Soloists Ensemble. Later as principal violist and soloist, he performed with the London Soloists Ensemble, Wessex Sinfonia, Clifton Virtuosi, Orchestra of the Swan, the English National Baroque Ensemble and the Emerald Ensemble. Richard is a solo commercially recorded artist and has broadcast on BBC Radio 3, 4, Classic FM and Greek RTA. He has also recorded solo soundtracks for television documentaries with BBC 1 and 2, ITV and Channel 4. His keen interest in promoting contemporary music has taken him throughout the UK, Europe and Asia including a major tour of Turkmenistan. This was organised by the British Council and Turkmenistan’s Ministry of Culture for the Makhtumkuli Festival. His performances were televised throughout the State, and Richard has the distinction of being the first British musician to perform there since glasnost.

John has, throughout his career, combined instrumental teaching with practicing and teaching the Alexander Technique, performing and coaching. From 1976 to 1986, John was a member of the BBC Symphony Orchestra during which time he also taught at Westminster School. In 1991 he joined the Trinity College of Music staff and was that year also appointed to teach Alexander Technique in the Royal College of Music Junior Department.

Kathy teaches Contact Improvisation, Choreography and Performance as a faculty member at Trinity Laban. She has been developing and sharing her practice through creative collaboration, performance and teaching for over 25 years. Her interest is in improvisation as an integrated technical, compositional and performance practice.

Fiona’s first professional work was with the Bournemouth Sinfonietta and the impressive Roger Norrington. Her debut as a solo performer was in 1986 playing Weber’s Concerto No. 2 with the London Symphony Orchestra under Bramwell Tovey at the Barbican Hall. In 1988 Fiona won the LPO Pioneer award for the best young performer and the ‘reward’ was to play Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto at the Royal Festival Hall. She has worked with conductors of the stature of Leonard Slatkin, Tamás Vásáry, Mark Elder, Bernard Haitink, Daniel Harding and Ricardo Chailly. She speaks of Mark Elder’s respectfulness and wonderful musicianship and adds that he is an ex-Bryanstonian; Chailly is ‘exciting, wonderful and a perfectionist’; Harding is ‘incredibly intelligent and his beats are wonderfully clear’ and she speaks glowingly of Haitink’s amazing inspiration. She has toured with the Vanburg String Quartet and the broadcast of their performance of the Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor was a revelation. Fiona’s tone and intonation was impeccable and her articulation admirable. The warmth that she brought to this piece was quite incredible. To date she has only made one commercial recording, that of Robert Simpson’s Quintet for clarinet, bass clarinet and string trio (Hyperion CDA 66626) coupled with the String Quartets Nos. 14 and 15. In this, she plays the bass clarinet and, again, her clarity and musicianship are second to none. She has given recitals with the pianist Kathryn Page at Wigmore Hall and twice in the Purcell Room and has performed with both the Coull and Alberni String Quartets at music festivals. At least six composers have written especially for her including Diana Burrell with Bright Herald of the Morning and Gary Carpenter with his Sonata.

Tony Cross was a specialist musician at Wells Cathedral School before studying music at The City University and a postgraduate in orchestral studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Having graduated he has been ubiquitous as a freelance trumpeter in all of London’s major symphony, chamber and opera orchestra’s for nearly thirty years. His early career focussed on a passion for contemporary music and included extended periods of work with both the London Sinfonietta and Ensemble Modern. This was contrasted with historically informed performances on original instruments with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the English Concert.

Billy Cullum trained at the Arts Educational Schools London gaining a BA (Hons) in Musical Theatre.

Dedicated to nurturing the next generation of performers, Billy teaches at esteemed conservatoires such as Arts Educational School of Musical Theatre, Emil Dale Academy, Italia Conti, and Urdang Academy. His commitment to fostering new talent inspired him to establish KIPA: Kingston Performers Academy, a theatre training ground that cultivates emerging young artists.

Diana has been a professor at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance since 1994.

Diana is one of the most distinguished violinists in Great Britain, her career spanning a wide spectrum of musical activities. After winning prizes in the Niccolò Paganini and Alberto Curci violin competitions, she developed a busy international career as a recitalist and a concerto soloist, playing an extensive repertoire from the Baroque to the Contemporary. She gave the first performance in Finland of the Violin Concerto by Peter Maxwell Davies and is dedicated to the promotion and performance of new works.

Alison Curtis-Jones FHEA, MA, PGCE, BA(Hons)

Artistic Director of award-winning Summit Dance Theatre, internationally recognised dance artist, movement consultant, contemporary choreological expert, researcher and leading exponent in re-imagining Rudolf Laban’s ‘lost’ choreographic works. Ali teaches annually in Switzerland and Croatia and her choreographic work performed throughout Europe, UK, Switzerland and Canada, filmed and screened by Swiss TV company RSI, German TV company ARTE and featured in the BBC documentary Dance Rebels.

Ali presents conference papers and lecture demonstrations, workshops and masterclasses internationally. The body as a dynamic archive is central in her work, examining dance pedagogy, training practices and creative processes for contemporary dancers. Her current practice promotes movement for wellbeing and her written work published in Journal of Dance and Somatic Practice, Movement and Dance Magazine, Dance Books, and her chapter ‘Transmission: Reimagining Laban. Contemporising the Past, Envisioning the Future, in Transmissions in Dance: Contemporary Staging Practices, published by Palgrave Macmillan. 

Ali teaches at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and The University of Creative Arts.

Luisa teaches adult Pilates as part of the Public Engagement team.

Luisa teaches dance technique, improvisation, and choreographic workshops at degree, postgraduate and vocational levels in the UK and Italy. She is a dancer and has worked for several choreographers including A. Vahla, R. Garrison, Rebecca Skelton, and L. Latour, as well as making her own work. She also choreographs for the theatre, collaborating with various theatre directors at Italia Conti in London and in Rome. After training in contemporary dance, Luisa D’Ambrosio trained as a Pilates teacher at The Place with The Pilates Foundation. She also works independently as an instructor and lectures in Pilates and Body Conditioning.

Born in Bologna, Italy, Gabriella studied in Italy, France and Germany with Pierre Jamet and Fabrice Pierre, Jaqueline Borot, Giselle Herbert and Anna Loro. Now based in London, she continues to follow an international and high profile career performing and teaching the harp.Captivating audiences around the globe her critically acclaimed recordings span solo, chamber and orchestral works on the Claves, Koch, Stradivarius, Dal Segno and Ambitus labels, and she has also made many live recordings for French, German, Italian and Swiss Radio. Her wide and varied repertoire covers most solo, concertos, chamber music repertoire as well as orchestral works (symphonic, operatic and ballet). Internationally active as a soloist and chamber musician, Gabriella has given recitals and concerts throughout Europe, USA, the Far and Middle East. She also freelances with some of the most outstanding UK and European orchestras: the Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna State Opera, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductors she works with include Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Mariss Jansons, Valery Gergiev, Simon Rattle, Lorin Maazel, Sir Colin Davis, Antonio Pappano, Bernard Haitink, Seiji Osawa and Esa-Pekka Salonen amongst countless others.

Research interests and areas of supervision:

• Harp performance
• Musicology

Emily is the leader of the Hallé Orchestra, which she combines with a vibrant career guest leading other ensembles across Europe, alongside engagements as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher.

Penny began her career combining piano performance with school and college teaching, first leading an A-Level Music department over forty years ago.

She joined Junior Trinity in 2002, tasked with developing the GCSE and A Level examination courses. Consolidating her teaching experience by examining for Edexcel since 1990, she has in turn become a Senior Examiner and a Principal Examiner.

Dedicated to offering opportunities to young musicians she is a trustee for several music charities, co-ordinates a Young Musician of the Year competition and has run a concert series for young professionals in her converted chapel home.

David Delarre is a musician, composer and music educator. Through his work with the award winning singer Eliza Carthy MBE and Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, David has performed at a number of high profile venues and festivals across the UK and Europe.

He has recently recorded sessions for BBC Radio 2, 3 and 4 and has also performed on BBC 1 for Jools Holland and BBC 1 Breakfast TV. His theatre credits include The Globe’s production of The Two Noble Kinsman, Bartholomew Fair, Tony Award winning Broadway musical Hadestown and the National Theatre’s Hex.