Rosie Toll
Rosie Toll studied classical violin with Kay Dorling and Polly Waterfield. She
started going to Irish sessions aged 15 and learnt to play in the Irish style by
listening and learning from the musicians around her. She has been in bands
as a fiddle player since the mid 90s with her main success being Celtica, a
folk/world crossover band who she toured extensively with for 10 years in the
UK and Europe. Celtica had an eclectic line up including didjeridoo and
African djembes, Spanish cajon alongside traditional folk instruments and
electronics. She has performed at many of the major music festivals including
Glastonbury and also the folk festivals including Sydmouth and Towersy.
Her other projects include 'Twizzle', a contemperary folk duo and most
recently a trad Irish band 'The Rampant Horse Collective' who have just
performed at Stainsby folk festival alongside the likes of Chris wood and Rory
Mcleod. Her discography includes three albums with Celtica; 'Planet celtica,'
'Luminous' and 'Bit of the twisted.' Two albums with Twizzle; 'When Angels
Call' and 'Leap of Faith'. She has also played as guest musician on two
albums with Tarantism; 'Last Band Standing' and 'Dance Till You Die!'
Rosie has worked as a session violinist with numerous singer song writers
and for a radio 4 production of Mutiny on the Bounty. She has also
collaborated with her father Mike Toll writing and improvising
music for his films and art installations.
These days Rosie is mainly working as a Suzuki violin teacher after
completing her training with the British Suzuki Institute in London in 2009.
She is passionate about teaching and hopes most of all to
help bring about a love of music and help guide her students onto an
individual musical pathway that is right for them whether it is baroque,
classical, folk, jazz or improvising that they enjoy. She regularly teaches at
workshops and summer schools across the country and also composes and is
musical director for Shine Musical Theatre Project which works with children
from areas of socio-economic deprivation in Norwich.
She is currently enjoying being a mum for the first time!
Lucinda Mackworth-Young
Lucinda Mackworth-Young enjoys encouraging everyone to perform.
Besides adjudicating, she is a pioneering consultant, lecturer and
writer in psychology for musicians, an experienced concert pianist
and a teacher. Well known for her entertaining approach she puts
psychology into relevant and practical forms to inspire and refresh
music teaching, learning and performing.
One of her visions is that all who play or sing should feel able to do
so with full blooded heart and soul, enthusiasm and enjoyment, and
without any anxiety.
Another is that all who learn to play should learn not only by
reading notes, but also by ear and through improvisation, so
becoming truly spontaneous and versatile as musicians. She is
currently developing a step-by-step method of playing by ear and
improvising.
Lucinda runs courses under her association Music, Mind and
Movement including a week's summer course for music teachers
and performers by the sea in Aberystwyth. She provides course
work for the leading professional development courses run by the
Associated Board, the Incorporated Society of Musicians at Reading
University and the European Piano Teachers Association. In 2008
she was appointed EPTA UK's Director of the Practical Piano
Teaching Course which is run at The Purcell School of Music.
She is a freelance lecturer for music teaching societies, universities,
colleges and in-service teacher training and she writes extensively
having had many articles and chapters published in Rhinegold,
Faber, ABRSM and EPTA publications. Her highly successful and
readable book TUNING IN: Practical Psychology for Musicians was
published in 2001.
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