Information About Mark - Muswell Hill teacher -

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Personal Description:

Mark studied the clarinet from the age of 8 and played as a student in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain between 1973 and 1977.

Mark continued his studies with Sidney Fell, and at the Royal Academy of Music with Richard Addison and Keith Puddy. He has performed regularly with many of the UK’s leading opera companies including English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, English Touring Opera, Cambridge Opera Group, Garsington Opera, Grange Park Opera, Carl Rosa Opera Company and Pimlico Opera.

Mark has also performed in many theatre productions, for Chichester Festival Theatre, (including the national tour and the West End transfer of Nicholas Nickleby) the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Exchange Theatre and West Yorkshire Playhouse.

An active chamber musician, Mark is a founder member of chamber group Harmoniemusik with which he has travelled widely giving more than 300 concerts in the UK, France, Belgium, Germany and beyond since it was founded in 1991.

Tutoring Experience:

Clarinet teaching:
Peripatetic for London Borough of Ealing

Tiffin School for Boys

Duke of Kent School

Church Cathedral School Oxford

Chamber music coaching:
Belle Serre cello course in Castres, France

Tutoring Approach:

Music is such a joy to learn and perform and the skills required to do so need to be acquired with patience and hard work but also with enthusiasm and self belief. Pupils are encouraged to learn the basics and the fundamentals as means to express themselves both playing on their own or with piano accompaniment and also in duos and trios with other instrumentalists. Lessons need to be fun and driven by the positive attitude of the teacher.