VIOLIN JOANNA LAWRENCE CLARINET KATHERINE SPENCER
Creative Workshops & Concerts
MUSIC MAGIC FOR ALL Stimulating, Creative, involving
Music Magic will deliver professional music sessions that are exciting and stimulating for all abilities and ages. The workshops will be individually tailored to suit every participant, facilitating creative music making for everyone taking part. Katherine and Joanna have worked extensively delivering the highest quality music workshops internationally for the last 20 years.
Music Magic office is located at: White Cottage Fringford Bicester Oxfordshire OX27 8AQ katherineaspencer@yahoo.co.uk violin@joannalawrence.co.uk
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MUSIC MAGIC FOR ALL
VIOLIN JOANNA LAWRENCE CLARINET KATHERINE SPENCER
Creative Workshops & Concerts
Katherine Spencer
Joanna Lawrence
Katherine made her concerto
Joanna has many musical
singer, Claron McFadden.
With Music for Life, a charity
debut at the age of fourteen
passions, from playing old to
She has played for Opus 20
run by the Wigmore Hall, she
at the Royal Festival Hall.
very new music, to enabling
and Ensemble Exposé.
takes improvisation workshops
She has also appeared as
spontaneous music making with
soloist with the BBC Symphony
the elderly to the very young.
Orchestra, The Academy of
In the recently formed 21st Century Baroque, she plays with
She is a member of the Orchestra
jazz musician and harpsichordist,
of the Age of Enlightenment
David Gordon, and Charlotte
(OAE) and the Academy of
Barbour-Condini, BBC Young
Ancient Music and has played
Musician Finalist. They play
with most period instrument
baroque and newly written music
groups in London, and Les Arts
and return to the Swaledale
She has recorded the Brahms
Florissants in Paris. She has
Festival this year.
Sonata and Beethoven Trio
performed in many of the great
and many of her discs with the
concert halls of Europe and the
Galliard Ensemble, are highly
US, touring extensively, and has
acclaimed in the world press,
recorded many discs for major
Gramophone and BBC Music
record labels. She is violinist with
Magazines.
L’Aventurra London, whose latest
St Martin in the Fields Orchestra and made many live Radio 3 solo broadcasts, and performs regularly on Classic FM and European radio stations.
disc for Hyperion was highly
Katherine has performed Mozart
acclaimed. They have recently
with the remaining members
played in the York Early Music
of the Amadeus Quartet in the
Festival, Brighton Early Music
presence of HRH the Emperor of
Festival, Gulbenkian Foundation
Japan and alongside her many
and principal clarinet of The
and delivering hugely valuable
Royal engagements, performed
City of London Sinfonia, as well
projects from composing and
in the first live concert broadcast
as regular guest principal with
recording an entire film score
from Buckingham Palace.
the Irish Chamber Orchestra and
written in collaboration by a
For many years she played
Gabrieli Consort and Players.
mainstream and special needs
with the hard hitting amplified
Her freelance work sees her
school, to linking art and music
band, Icebreaker with whom
regularly playing with many
to homeless people, which
she appeared in the Bang on
of Britain’s leading orchestras
were exhibited in London’s main
a Can Festival in New York
such as the Royal Philharmonic
art galleries.
and recorded for Decca. She
As a chamber musician Katherine was chosen by the BBC to be on their Young Generation Artists Scheme which has facilitated her performing at The Proms and the Barbican’s “Mostly Mozart Festival”. Katherine is a member of the Age of Enlightenment Orchestra
in Lisbon and Lufthansa Festival in London.
Orchestra and Northern
toured with Colin Riley and Tim
Symphonia.
Whitehead in the Homemade
Katherine is passionate about bringing music to all areas of society. She is always devising
Orchestra, an ensemble crossing the bridges between jazz and ‘classical’ disciplines through improvisation and worked with
She has a great interest in all world music and spent time learning Irish folk and often works with musicians from other cultures. She has devised many duo projects with Clare Whistler, dancer, including a piece for Antony Caro exhibition and for Clare’s ongoing Water Week projects. She is a member of Academy Inégales, an exciting collaborative project and appeared with Club Inégales at Spitalfields Festival last autumn.
for people living with dementia. She runs three improvising bands and leads workshops for OAE. She devises education projects for different organisations and is pianist for ‘Bach to Baby’. She is baroque violin tutor at Hull University.