Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Tutors and Staff (A to Z)
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Professor Graham Sadler
Research Professor in Music
Professor Sadler is known internationally as an authority on French music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. After studying at the Universities of Nottingham and London and the Royal College of Music, he joined the Music Department at the University of Hull, where he remained as lecturer, reader and eventually...
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Professor David Saint
Organ Tutor
Professor David Saint read music at Hull and Liverpool universities and gained his Fellowship of the Royal College of Organists (FRCO) diploma at the age of 20, winning the Turpin Prize for performance. His principal teachers were Alan Spedding and Dame Gillian Weir. After some years as a part time tutor, he was appointed to...
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Jane Salmon
Cello Tutor & Chamber Music Coach
Jane Salmon has established a reputation as one of the busiest and most successful cellists of her generation. A member of The Schubert Ensemble - Ensemble in Residence at Birmingham Conservatoire - her work as a chamber musician and as a recital soloist has taken her to more than 40 countries across the world and has involved...
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Victor Sangiorgio
Piano Tutor
“Poetic Perfection” was how Victor Sangiorgio’s London debut was hailed by The Times . Similar critical and public acclaim has continued to greet both his public performances and recordings. Magazines such as Gramophone have used words like ‘irresistible,’ ‘truly outstanding’ and ‘superbly colourful’ to describe his...
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Mr Paul Saunders
Multi-Instrumental Consultant
After graduating from the Royal College of Music as a Clarinettist in 1991, Paul has since become one of the busiest woodwind players on the West End circuit. A relatively new addition to the professorial staff, Paul represents a different sphere of the profession to the traditional orchestral or solo route. As a...
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Mary Savva
Visiting Lecturer
Mary Savva is a dance artist and educator based in the UK. Mary develops and makes work with vulnerable communities, children and youths in varied social sites and environments. Mary is interested in community dance making, somatics and re-appraising ideas on what dance is and can be for all bodies; recently contributing to a...
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Cinzia Scafetta
Vocal and Language (Italian) Tutor
Cinzia Scafetta has been an Italian vocal coach at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire since 2007. Her teaching focuses on: developing awareness of the Italian language sound by means of a correct physical articulation of the phonetic apparatus; merging the socio-linguistic properties of the Italian language with the features of the...
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Rita Schindler
Principal Harp Tutor
Hungarian harpist Rita Schindler pursues a varied career as a musician and teacher. Her playing has been described as ‘beguiled with a broad range of colours’, and in 2019 she was appointed principal harp tutor at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. As an orchestral musician, Rita performs regularly with Birmingham Royal Ballet...
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Philippe Schwartz
Euphonium Tutor
Born in Luxembourg in 1985, Philippe began playing the Euphonium at the age of eight at the Conservatoire de Musique de la Ville de Luxembourg. In 2004 he decided to further his musical education at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester where he completed both a Bachelor and a Master’s degree with distinction...
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Joanne Sealey
Head of Piano Accompaniment in Wind and Brass Studies
As well as her role as Head of Piano Accompaniment in Wind and Brass Studies, Joanne Sealey is also a Senior Tutor in Accompaniment and Coaching. Jo has become widely recognised in the UK as a specialist in woodwind and brass accompaniment and currently holds the position of Head of Accompaniment in Wind and Brass Studies at...