Staff A-Z

My career spans from working alongside young talented dancers at the Centre for Advanced Training here at TrinityLaban to developing my own business in coaching and rehabilitating women in and beyond their maternal years. My skills as a movement and exercise practitioner include assessing functional movement patterns, posture and mobility and prescribing appropriate exercise programmes that aim to enhance movement quality and musculoskeletal function, whilst also managing and alleviating pain and injury.

My exercise approach is to re-order, organise and re-establish good movement patterns. I aim to rebalance muscle activity, address joint function, challenge muscle co-ordination and continually progress and load the body in different ways so it ultimately arrives at a place where it is stronger and simply works really well.

His discography with the Carducci Quartet numbers over 20 CDs, for labels including Signum, Naxos, BMG, Somm, Nimbus and Carducci Classics – the quartet’s own label. Matt has performed at major concert halls around the world including Carnegie Hall, Washington Library of Congress, Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Tivoli Hall Copenhagen, and the quartet performs around 90 concerts each year.

Known for their complete cycles of Bartok, Beethoven and Shostakovich, in 2015 they won a Royal Philharmonic Society award for ‘Shostakovich15’  – a project which included a performance of the complete Shostakovich quartets in one day, at Shakespeare’s Globe theatre in London.

Matt studied with Felix Andrievsky at the RCM for 4 years and was awarded Junior Fellowships in chamber music for a subsequent 2 years, studying with members of the Amadeus, Alberni and Chilingirian Quartets.

With the quartet he was then a Bulldog Scholar and Richard Carne Junior Fellow at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, where he now continues to visit as Violin professor and quartet in residence.

As a soloist he has performed concerti by Bach, Mendelssohn, Vivaldi, Delius, Beethoven, Bruch and Brahms, and is regularly invited to guest lead a range of ensembles and orchestras. Matt can regularly be heard on TV and film scores including Downton Abbey, Poldark, The Theory of Everything, Everest, Boxtrolls, Murder on the Orient Express, Shazam and Paddington. As a violinist Matt has also featured recently on albums by Ed Sheeran, Ellie Goulding and Jethro Tull.

Many of Matt’s past students have gone on to be successful performers and teachers and can be regularly heard in orchestras including the Halle, Liverpool Philharmonic, Aurora, BBC NOW and the English Symphony Orchestra.

With the quartet, he set up the ‘Carducci Music Trust’ to help inspire musicians for the future and to enable more children to experience live music in schools.

Matt plays on a historic Brother’s Amati violin from 1603 – ‘The Hurwitz ex Cooper‘

English conductor and historical keyboard specialist Steven Devine studied at Chetham’s School of Music and the University of Oxford.

He is Associate Musical Director of Opera Restor’d, Professor of Fortepiano at Trinity Laban and a member of the staff at Dartington International Summer School.

He has recorded four solo discs and has played on over 30 recordings with other artists. Steven is a regular continuo player with several major UK period instrument orchestras, including the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Academy of Ancient Music and the New London Consort. Steven has performed as conductor and soloist throughout the world; recent highlights including being pianist and director in a Mozart Concerto in London, Dublin and Manchester, as well as conducting and acting as Master of Ceremonies for Raymond Gubbay Productions at the Royal Albert Hall, Symphony Hall (Birmingham), Bridgewater Hall (Manchester) and across the rest of UK.

Graham has also made two CDs for the UK based label GGR; they are entitled Appassionata and Burgalesa and were recorded by acclaimed recording engineer and producer, John Taylor.

Widely considered as one of the best guitarists of his generation, Graham is currently in much demand as a recitalist and concerto soloist. He has performed at many of the world’s leading recital venues such as Wigmore Hall (London), Purcell Room (London), Palau de la Musica (Valencia), Hakuju Hall (Tokyo) and Phoenix Hall (Osaka). He has also been invited to give masterclasses at festivals and musical institutes throughout the world.

His huge repertoire covers music from the renaissance period to most major twentieth century works written for the guitar, including rarely performed masterpieces such as Maurice Ohana’s compositions for ten-string guitar.

Graham plays exclusively on D’Addario strings.

Graham is currently Head of Guitar at Trinity Laban, London. He is also the Artistic Director of the Royal Greenwich Guitar Festival, London, UK.

As a dancer, Zoi has worked with Kirstie Simson, Yvonne Rainer, Felix Ruckert and Siobhan Davies, among others. She launched her choreographic career in 2006 and her professional portofolio includes, among other works: Can You See Me? (2006), Dromi (2007), Limen (2007), Goddesses in Exile (2008), In The Process of … (2010), Little Creatures (2011), You May! (2012), The Chapter House (2014), Side Effects (2015), Peregrinus (2017), Vanishing Points (2018), When Pillars Evaporate; Work in Progress (2019).

She is the recipient of important UK choreographic awards such as the Robin Howard Foundation Award 2008, the Bonnie Bird Choreography Fund Award 2009 and the CFC Award 2010 by the Company of Angels, Sadler’s Wells and The Place, and has participated in Aerowaves, a well-renowned European Dance Platform. She has received several commissions (eg Greek National Ballet) and her works have been presented at venues/festivals such as: Fast Forward Festival 4, ROH2, Arnolfini, BE Festival, Lilyan Baylis, the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, the Kalamata International Dance Festival, Operaestate Veneto Festival at the Scala of Milan, Europe in Motion Festival and Springloaded at The Place.

She has participated in several international European Dance Research programs such as the Choreoroam, Big Intensive, Europe in Motion, and she is funded/commissioned by institutions such as the Arts Council England, the Hellenic Centre for theater and dance, the Onassis Cultural Centre, among others. She is a Research Fellow at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London and teaches internationally at institutions/festivals such as: Impulstanz Festival, Sasha Waltz Company, Independent Dance, National Dance Academy of Rome, Athens State School of Dance (KSOT) among others.

Her research is focused on notions of time and the passing of images. It reflects the direction of her practice away from the conventional theatre space and towards off-site installations and interactivity, investigates the qualities and conditions of spectatorship, and draws from the larger social for the development of choreographic activity.

ENO Baylis, the company’s outreach department, has afforded him the happy opportunity to be involved in many projects with people from all sections of the community. He has been commissioned to create events for them such as Jazz Rigoletto with Westminster Council, performed at the Steiner Theatre,The Carmen Storyfor schools in Hackney and Tower Hamlets and The Soldiers Day in Hackney. He has also done education work for the Royal Philharmonic and London Symphony Orchestras and the Royal Ballet.

Away from ENO Mick enjoys a busy freelance career with the United Kingdom’s premier orchestras and ensembles including the Royal Philharmonic, Philharmonia, London Symphony, London Philharmonic, BBC Symphony and BBC Concert Orchestras and the London Sinfonietta, performing under such world renowned conductors as Abbado, Muti, Gergiev, Previn, Haitink, Maazel, Temirkanov, Mackerras, Tilson-Thomas, Dutoit, Colin Davis, Rostropovich, Elder and many more.

His many film soundtrack recordings include Lord of the Rings, The Golden Compass, Nanny McPhee 2, Gangs of New York, Tomorrow Never Dies, Enemy at the Gates, Miss Potter, The English Patient and The Mask of Zorro. Mick has also deputized on West End shows such as My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins.

Another important part of Mick’s professional life is in education. He is Professor of Percussion at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, percussion coach to the Ulster Youth Orchestra and gives private coaching and consultation lessons. He is frequently invited to adjudicate at music conservatoires. In 2011 he was co-founder of Rhythms Inc, a partnership with a growing reputation for using music to provide experiences that are engaging, inspirational and fun and that build new capabilities, develop team-working skills and promote creativity for a wide range of audiences from children to corporates.

An engaging communicator, Mick has appeared on various national radio shows. He was featured on Gershwin’s Horns with Rainer Hersch, A History of the World in 100 Objects on BBC Radio 4 and was the ‘Spoon Man on Radio 2’s Chris Evans Show. He is also comfortable as a presenter and happily performs humorous solo pieces on quirkier instruments such as musical saw, car horns, kazoo, washboard and even anvil!

Passionate about jazz, he was a founder member of The Lawless Four jazz quartet playing at private events and at venues including the Royal Festival Hall, The Barbican and The Savage Club.

Also in demand as a music administrator, for many years he has acted on behalf of Musical Associates Concerts Ltd and A.W.Events, booking musicians and acting as Orchestra Manager for their stately home and stadium concerts across the country. He was also Orchestra Manager for Camerata Ireland’s triumphant 2000 tour to Brazil, Argentina and Montevideo with music director Barry Douglas.

He is delighted to be a Zildjian Artist and is honored to be an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.

His long association with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra has seen five CD recordings including Food of Love, Christmas Classics and Very Best of Rodgers & Hammerstein and many concerts such as the annual Christmas Cracker at Cadogan Hall and Best of Broadway at Royal Albert Hall. His other recordings include Simply… Michael Dore, and he is featured on numerous albums for Readers Digest, four albums with the BBC Concert Orchestra, Steve Mackey’s Grammy award-winning Dreamhouse and three recordings of Berio’s Sinfonia.

Michael’s work with the Variety Club Children’s Charity has included co-hosting and performing for the Iowa Variety Club Live Telethon in the USA and his Michael Dore Sings the Musicals and More concert in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Theatre roles have included West Side Story (Riff) with Sir Simon Rattle, Jesus Christ Superstar (Peter) with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Guys & Dolls (Benny Southstreet) and Candide (Maximillian) with the BBC Concert Orchestra. He created the role of Rupert Brooke in the premiere performances of Young Apollo and played Lieutenant Barri on the original London cast recording of Sondheim’s Passion.

He has performed Shakespeare on stage with Dame Judi Dench, worked alongside Dame Diana Rigg, and his singing partners have included Sarah Brightman, Nell Bryden and Lorna Luft.

Other appearances have included Kurt Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins in the UK, Spain and Ireland, the Cathcart Spring Prom at the Royal Albert Hall, and Best of the West End at Hampton Court Festival, along with UK tours of West End Nights, Broadway Lights and Fascinating Rhythms, Wonderful Town in Berlin, The Magic of Broadway in Scandinavia and The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber.

He has conducted vocal workshops and masterclasses in Europe, South Africa and North America and coached in the UK on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Any Dream Will Do series (BBC TV), Hairspray – the School Musical, Grease – the School Musical 2 (SKY TV), Popstars (ITV) and The X Factor.

Michael’s busy studio recording schedule has included many film soundtracks such as Shrek 2, Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter, Star Wars, The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. He worked with Adele on her Bond track ‘Skyfall’, is often featured on BBC Radio 2’s ‘Friday Night is Music Night’, has guested on TV shows including Songs of Praise and regularly appears at London’s major concert halls, performing contemporary, semi-classical, Broadway, Jazz, Christmas and intimate Cabaret evenings at venues such as The Crazy Coqs.

Kit performs solo pipe organ and solo piano concerts – and also plays in collaborations with saxophonist Tom Challenger, cellist Lucy Railton, composer Shiva Feshareki and with the band ‘ENEMY’. He is also currently working with violinist Aidan O’Rourke, composer Max de Wardener and in an organ trio with Reinier Baas and Jonas Burgwinkel. He also teaches at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he himself studied and now holds a Fellowship.

“An exceptional soloist” – Wormser Zeitung
“It testifies to his world-class stature” – The Guardian
“One of the finest pianists of his generation” – Jazzwise
“Considerable chops and flowing imagination” – Downbeat

Andrew has worked with orchestras and ensembles on three continents. These have included some of Europe and North America’s renowned ensembles, notably on recordings with orchestras such as the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Royal Flemish Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, with conductors such as; Nicholas Harnoncourt, Bernard Haitink, Esa Pekka Saraste, Marin Alsop, Sian Edwards, Krzystof Penderecki, Daniel Harding and Edward Gardner.

While in Canada he performed on radio broadcasts with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, including taking part in a South American tour with Kent Nagano. He was also invited to perform on the ‘Star Noel’ CD with colleagues from Montreal.

Recent solo and conducting performances have included North American premieres, and Luciano Berio’s Sequenza X. Andrew’s own conducting work has involved many world premieres of works for Brass ensemble or Wind Orchestra, having been mentored in the latter by the famous conducting pedagogue Dr Timothy Reynish.

Formerly Chair of Brass and Professor of Trumpet at McGill University – Schulich School of Music – Montreal, Andrew has organised master classes and collaborations with world-class artists in Brass, Wind and Percussion.

Andrew’s research interests cross-pollinate solo performance with performance health and pedagogy. Currently working on a PhD in the STEM faculty at the Open University, Andrew is investigating instrument design and playing physiology in closed end wind instruments. He was awarded an ARAM in May 2013 by the Royal Academy of Music for services to music.

As a strength and conditioning specialist for dancers, Khyle works to provide specific prehabilitation and performance enhancement training strategies to support dancers in training and performance, helping to establish a high athletic capacity to support genre specific technique and reduce physical limitations to creative work. His research looks into the athletic development and competency of dancers.

As a performer, Khyle has performed internationally with numerous makers and companies; working with STREB Extreme Action, Dance Theatre of Ireland, Upswing Aerial, Generating Company, Luca Silvistrini, Arthur Pita, Liam Steel. Khyle is also creative collaborator, maker, choreographer, and rehearsal director in dance theatre and musical theatre genres. He has worked extensively with British Youth Music Theatre; and Rachel Birch-Lawson, touring their work internationally.

Becky also has a choreographic moving image practice, which seeks to deepen the screen application of dance practice. The choreographic concerns of the rhythm, pattern and dynamic flow of movement, are combined with a documentary practice to produce works that are a hybrid of the observed and the constructed. Her short films and installations have been shown at film festivals internationally. She was artist in residence at both Videodanza BA in Argentina and SHOOT Dance for Camera Festival in Sweden. Her feature documentary Turn Your F***ing Head was published by Routledge in 2014.

From 2010 to 2015 Becky worked in collaboration with fellow artist Lucy Cash under the company name of straybird, a platform for co-curated and co-directed projects. straybird developed and produced a number of innovative projects including the curation of the What If… and What Matters festivals at Siobhan Davies Studios, Small Matters and Stray Gifts (to be claimed by whoever shall find) at Dance Umbrella, two films for the Siobhan Davies Space (Seven Ways South and Walker), as well as What Matters, a short documentary for Arts Council England, which was shown as the opening film at SOTA 2012.

Becky teaches screendance and moving image practice at a range of instituions and is an associate artist with Blast Theory.