Richard is a former leader of the National Children’s Orchestra. He graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music and the University of Manchester with first class honours in 2005; whilst studying in Manchester he held principal positions in the RNCM chamber orchestra and University Sinfonietta, together with many other chamber ensembles.
Since 2005 Richard has been studying medicine at Manchester University Medical School and in his spare time he goes sailing!
Lydia has just finished her first year at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she studies with Helena Gaunt. Her first teacher was Graeme Adams and when she was 16 she gained a place at Wells Cathedral School (one of four specialist music schools in England) as a Specialist Musician with DfES funding for the Sixth form. There she studied the oboe with Liz Fyfe.
Lydia is principal oboe in the National Youth Wind Ensemble and is a past member of the National Youth Chamber Orchestra. Lydia plays in the Treblos Wind Quintet which is based in London.
This year Lydia won the Hereford Police Choir Bursary and was a finalist in the Chandos Young Musician competition.
Lydia is supported by the Guildhall School Trust
Tatiana Dolgowska was born in 1982 and started playing the piano when she was 6. Following 11 years study with the renowned Russian performer and teacher, Elena Lebetskaya she moved to Krakow and continued her studies at the Music Academy where she graduated with a first class Master’s degree. Tatiana continued her extensive studies at the Birmingham Conservatoire where she was awarded an Advanced Postgraduate Diploma with distinction. She has subsequently participated in master classes with Peter Donohoe and Dmitri Bashkirov and has been a soloist throughout Europe and most recently in Israel. She is currently busy continuing her performance career and combining it with teaching piano at Repton independent school.
Sarah Waycott studied at the Gloucester Academy of Music where she was asked to perform solo flute with the string ensemble and also spent a year as a trainee in Indian Music which led to her giving Indian music workshops for others.
In 2005 Sarah graduated from Bath Spa University College with a BA Honours Degree in music where she studied flute with Richard Dobson and Cello with Ruth Zagni. In her final year she won the concerto competition which led to a solo performance of the Vivaldi flute concerto ’Il Cardelino’ at the Guildhall, Bath.
In 2004 she won the Margaret Rose Bursary awarded to a local young promising musician, by the Drybrook and District Ladies Choir for whom she regularly performed.
During her time at Bath and briefly at the Welsh College of Music and Drama Sarah also studied ‘cello with which she performed in a series of concerts with the Seven Hills String Quartet, was part of the orchestra that opened the Bath festival in 2004, and the Phillip Glass Festival in Holland. She has also appeared in an advert for Sky Television.
With her flute Sarah has taken part in master classes with Graham Mayger, Stephano Parrino, Karen Jones, Ian Clarke, Sarah Newbold and Philippa Davies and performed in Prague and Sweden and also Gibraltar and Uganda as a soloist.
Sarah has also been involved in many outreach and voluntary projects. Whilst at university she took the Gamelan into hospitals and hospices to do workshops with children, and also performed in homes for the elderly as part of a flute and violin duo. Whilst studying at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama she also took a musical workshop into primary schools in Carmarthenshire with three other musicians as an introduction to music and various instruments including flute, clarinet, cello and harp. In July 2008 Sarah travelled to the Kampala Music School, Uganda, as part of a woodwind trio to volunteer as a flute and cello teacher for seven weeks. Her time there included joining in every aspect of the day to day school life from organising the weekly informal concerts to conducting the junior orchestra and performing trio concerts for the general public and also orphans at a primary school.
Sarah is a regular performer both as a soloist and in ensembles and orchestras. She appears regularly as a guest soloist for concerts and also plays in shows, operas and for functions, weddings, funerals and other events. She is part of ensembles such as Flute and Harp, the Sanyu Woodwind Trio, Chamber Flutes and Be Bop Da Jig, a fusion group that performs folk, jazz and blues.
Sarah is currently studying Flute at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama with Philippa Russell and previously Jonathan Burgess, principal of the WNO and piccolo with Nic Dowton, also of the WNO.
