Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Tutors and Staff (A to Z)
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Jenni Phillips
Head of Woodwind
Jenni Phillips studied at the Purcell School and the Royal College of Music with Michael Winfield. She then went on to win a Countess of Munster Scholarship to study at the National Centre for Orchestral Studies. Soon after leaving NCOS, she was appointed as 2nd Oboe in the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra where she...
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Dr Matthew Pilcher
Lecturer in Music
Dr Matthew Pilcher graduated from the University of Idaho in 2001 with degrees in Applied Performance: Piano (BA, cum laude ) and Music History and Literature (BA, cum laude ). Further studies at the University of Idaho culminated in an MMus in Piano Pedagogy and Performance Studies (2005, distinction) and an MA in Music...
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Jacqueline Pischorn
German language coach
Jacqueline Pischorn was born in Austria and studied singing at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Graz and at Trinity College of Music in London where she worked with conductors Diego Masson and Peter Stark. She studied contemporary music at the Britten Pears School with Oliver Knussen and Rosemary Hardy. ...
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Ian Porthouse
Director of Brass Band Studies & Cornet Tutor
Ian Porthouse began his musical career aged nine with Flimby Saxhorn Silver Band and he was a founder member of the Cumbria Youth Brass Band. Ian became principal cornet of Leyland Vehicles Band aged 17 and also led the National Youth Brass Band for three years. A move to Desford Colliery with James Watson proved to be the...
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Jeremy Price
Head of Jazz
Jeremy Price (born 1970) studied at Birmingham Conservatoire and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and has since followed a career as a freelance trombonist and jazz educator. Jeremy has been Head of Jazz at Birmingham Conservatoire since the Jazz Department was established in 1999 and wrote the Conservatoire's first ever...
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Ed Puddick
Lecturer in Jazz
Ed Puddick is an award-winning jazz arranger and composer who has been part of the UK jazz scene since graduating from the Birmingham Conservatoire in 2004. His Ed Puddick Big Band was formed in 2002 and its debut album ‘Guys & Dolls’ was released in 2010 on Diving Duck Records. Ed has written for the BBC Concert Orchestra...
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Michael Pushkin
Language Tutor (Russian)
Michael Pushkin taught Russian Language and Literature at the University of Birmingham for 35 years, and has since taught at the Universities of Bath , Bristol , Manchester and Nottingham . He has been External Examiner in Russian at seven universities (most recently Cambridge ). His special areas of interest are...
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David Quigley
Piano Tutor
Since his early successes in major competitions including BBC Young Musician of the Year, the Royal Over-Seas League music competition and his selection as the UK’s representative for the ECHO Rising Stars concert series, Irish pianist David Quigleyenjoysa varied international career as a recitalist, concerto soloist,...
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Rose Redgrave
Viola Tutor
Rose Redgrave was born in London in 1974, daughter of an artist and a viola player. After her studies at the Royal Northern College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music, she spent some years gaining valuable experience playing in most of the London and UK orchestras in all of the major concert halls in Europe and worldwide,...
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Timothy Ridout
Artist in Residence
With recent awards including the inaugural Sir Jeffrey Tate Prize in Hamburg and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship, Timothy Ridout has confirmed his position at the forefront of young European soloists. He has been a BBC New Generation Artist since 2019 and will join the Bowers Program of the Chamber Music Society of the...