Music Magic For All

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.