   
musicworks staff
The teaching staff at MusicWorks is a
distinguished group of internationally renowned teachers and
performers. Members of the regular team are joined each course by
guests from Britain and abroad.
 Catherine Manson is known as
one of the leading chamber music specialists of her generation. She
has appeared throughout Europe and North America, both as a soloist
and as a guest leader of ensembles including the Amsterdam Baroque
Orchestra, Smithsonian Chamber Players and Santa Fe Pro Musica in
the USA, Ensemble Innovacion in Germany, Il Gardellino and Ensemble
Explorations in Belgium. A particular interest in period performance
led her to found the classical London Haydn Quartet. Several
recordings she has made have won Diapason d'Or and Gramophone
Awards. Teaching is an important part of her musical life; she is on
the staff of Junior Guildhall, has taught regularly at the Royal
Academy of Music, Domaine Forget chamber music courses in Quebec and
at the Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin College, USA.
Charles Sewart is
a member of the Chilingirian Quartet, one of the world's
most celebrated and widely travelled ensembles renowned for their
thrilling interpretations of the great quartets and commanding
performances of the contemporary repertoire.
 James Boyd is widely
recognised as one of Britain's finest chamber musicians. He has been
a member of some of the country's foremost ensembles and is in great
demand as a guest artist with many others. After studying at the
Yehudi Menuhin School and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama,
he became a member of the Raphael Ensemble and later a founder
member of the Vellinger Quartet, winning the 1994 International
String Quartet Competition. James has appeared as a regular guest
with many ensembles including the Endellion, Wihan and Martinu
Quartets, the Florestan and Barbican Piano trios. In 2000, together
with Catherine Manson, Margaret Faultless and Jonathan Cohen, he
started the London Haydn Quartet. He has made numerous highly
acclaimed recordings including a world premiere of a viola piece by
Elgar.
 Robert Max enjoys
a varied and colourful career as solo cellist, conductor and chamber
musician. An Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, where he
teaches at the Junior Department, Robert is also an Honorary
Professor of the Rachmaninov Institute in Tambov, Russia. As cellist
of the Barbican Piano Trio for nearly twenty years he has performed
on four continents and made several acclaimed recordings, most
recently of works by Taneyev with guest violist James Boyd. Robert
is the principal cellist of the London Chamber Orchestra and
conducts the Oxford Symphony Orchestra and the Symphony and String
orchestras at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Inspiring french cellist Pierre
Doumange was the cellist of the Dante quartet and is a guest
performer with many chamber ensembles. He teaches at the Yehudi
Menuhin School and at the Guildhall School of Music &
Drama.
 French pianist Sarah
Tysman is presently holding the position of
vocal coach in the Komische Oper Berlin. She is a prize winner of
the Newport International Competition for Young Pianists, the
competition of the Elise Meyer Foundation in Hamburg , the
International Maj Lind Piano Competition and the San Sebastian
International Piano Competition . She studied in the Paris
Conservatory with Henri Barda, Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Anne
Grapotte in the departments of piano, chamber music and lied
accompaniment and in the Hochschule für Musik Hamburg with Grigory
Gruzman. She is enjoying to appear as a soloist as well as a chamber
musician and lied accompanist.
 Nell
Catchpole's fascination with different musical traditions
and art forms has led her to adapt her training as a classical
violinist to many new situations. Following studies at the Guildhall
and a degree in Social Anthropology from Cambridge, her work has
included performing/recording with bands from Palastine and
Madagascar, with Nigel Kennedy, Brian Eno, and U2. In 1995 she
formed ground-breaking music-theatre group 'The Gogmagogs' with
theatre director, Lucy Bailey. Nell is Strings Associate of
Professional Development at the Guildhall School of Music &
Drama. Recent work includes performing in 'Little Red Riding Hood'
at the Almeida Theatre, international tours with the gogmagogs,
Music and Sound Design for 'Comfort Me With Apples' at Hampstead
Theatre and performances with her rock band, The Lea Shores.
 Chris Brannick, a founder
member of the internationally renowned percussion group
ensemblebash, holds both a maths degree (Imperial College, London)
and a music degree (Royal Academy of Music). His compositions and
arrangements feature on CDs, websites, documentaries, Children's BBC
and music festivals and he was music advisor to Legoland. He plays
cimbalom, percussion, steel pan, drum kit, guitar, bass guitar,
bugle, piano and he sings in a stupidly high voice. He teaches at
the Guildhall and runs workshops for many different organisations.
He's also an actor, with credits running from 'Mole' in Wind In The
Willows to 'The Journalist' in 'Making History'. He runs another
percussion quartet, The Brake Drum Assembly, and appears in Classic
Rhythm, a bravura trio with a sense of musical adventure. His
cabaret bands, 'The Favoured Few' and 'The Brannick Academy' appear
in this country and New York. So how can he be summed up? At heart
he's just a show
off.
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