Staff A-Z

Hannah is an independent dance artist and teacher based in London. Since graduating with an MA in Dance Performance (Trinity Laban) she has danced with Nina Kov, Masha Gurina, Nutshell Dance Company, SKADooSH Dance, Daisy Farris Dance Collective and as part of the Olympics Closing Ceremony directed by Kim Gavin.

Dave Camlin is a musician-educator whose professional portfolio includes performance, composition, teaching, organisational development, management and research. He has performed all over the world as a singer / song-writer and with a variety of bands, including vocal groups Mouthful and Human Music, as well as new acoustic ensemble The Coast Road. He is currently Higher Education and Research Programme Leader at Sage Gateshead (TSG) where he is also a tutor on the organisation’s BA (Hons) Community Music, delivered in partnership with University of Sunderland. He was the founder of Cumbrian music organisation, SoundWave, where he was Creative Director from 2005-10, and has been one of the organisers of Solfest music festival in Cumbria since it started in 2002. He was a secondary school teacher for 8 years, and is currently studying for a Professional Doctorate; his primary research interest is around developing an understanding of the psychological states involved in music-making, and the transferability of those states to other professional domains.

Margaret Campbell began her musical studies at the Aylesbury Music Centre before winning an Open Scholarship to the Royal College of Music where she studied with John Francis and Sebastian Bell, winning both prizes for the flute. During this time she also attended masterclasses with James Galway. At the age of twenty, she left the RCM to take up her appointment as Principal Flute with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, appearing on several occasions as soloist including at a Henry Wood Promenade Concert. In 1981 she won the National Federation of Music Societies Award for Young Concert Artists which led to numerous recital and concerto engagements all over the country and broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 with her pianist John Lenehan. In 1986 she moved back to London as Principal Flute with the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. In addition to this post she freelances as a soloist and recitalist and appears regularly as guest Principal Flute with the major London orchestras.

Dr Emilie Capulet is an award-winning pianist, lecturer and musicologist with a unique and versatile interdisciplinary background that crosses over from music to literature, and from historical enquiry to innovative multimedia performance. As a lecture-recitalist, accompanist and chamber musician, she has a portfolio of national and international performances in the UK, Europe, Latin America, the USA, Canada and Asia.

Research interests and areas of supervision:

• Performance
• Musicology
• Relation between music and literature

Upon graduation Otis performed with the Red Tape Dance Company as part of the Malta Arts Festival 2008 going onto further engagements with ACE Dance and Music for their Autumn Tour of SKIN and Turandot at the Royal Opera House 2008, 2017 & 2023. From 2009-2013 Otis danced with Rambert Dance Company working with choreographers including Henri Oguike, Henrietta Horne, Tim Rushton, Marguerite Donlon, Itzik Galli and Mark Baldwin as well as performing in works by Merce Cunningham and Paul Taylor. 2013-2014 included performing as a Signet and Medium Swan in Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake National and International tour. 2015 marked the start of a recurring working relationship with Barry Kosky and Otto Pichler creating both the Glyndebourne Opera’s Production of Saul and Royal Opera House, Covent Garden production of The Nose with Saul going on to be presented as part of the Glyndebourne 2015 Tour and the Adelaide Festival 2017. During this time Otis was also engaged with CIE 7273 (Geneva), performing Tarab in Europe, Serbia and the Middle East. Other notable work includes End of Line by Goshka Macuga preforming at the Lowry Gallery 2017.

Otis has presented work as part of the Rambert season of new choreography at the Place Theatre 2011, has choreographed for Moveo Dance Company (Malta) 2022 as well as assisting rehearsals with the Choreographer Mbulelo Ndabeni in subsequent seasons.

Grace trained as a Pianist at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, later studying as a Repetiteur on the Opera Course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Having spent her initial studies working so frequently with singers, Grace began her own training as a soprano at Trinity Laban, going on to receive an International Opera Awards Bursary whilst at the Dutch National Opera Academy.

Doug Cartwright is an experienced freelance guitarist, music educator and independent artist. He has released full-length albums of original music as a member of several bands and worked as a guitar instructor since 2008, teaching in several music schools and having his lessons published by magazines and online streaming services.

Originally from Malta, Hollie trained at BodyWork Company Dance Studios, Cambridge, where she was the winner of the award for Outstanding Musical Theatre Artist, and the Royal Academy of Music, funded by the Malta Arts Scholarship and the Janatha Stubbs Foundation.

Hollie is an established actress, singer and dancer, having performed in London’s West End and across the UK in various hit musicals including Cabaret (Kit Kat Club at the Playhouse); On Your Feet! (Original London Cast, London Coliseum & UK Tour); Crazy for You (Watermill & UK Tour); The Sessions: The Beatles at Abbey Road (Royal Albert Hall & UK Arena Tour); The Ballad of Rudy (Manchester Royal Exchange); Hot Stuff (Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch); West Side Story (Cork Opera House); Fame – The Musical (Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage).

Alongside performing, she has worked as a writer, director, choreographer, musical director, musical supervisor, musician, and vocal arranger, in addition to being employed as a singing teacher at a number of the UK’s leading performance institutions.

Raymond has work in classical ballet, musical theatre and television. He danced with the National Ballet of Portugal where he danced a repertoire of classical and contemporary works which includes Napoli, Raymonda, Rite of Spring, Graduation Ball, Carmina Burana among others. Musical theatre productions include CATS, Miss Saigon, Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate and The King and I (Royal Shakespeare Company, National Theatre, London West End).

Research interests and areas of supervision:

• Jazz performance
• Composition
• Jazz theory
• Improvisation

Jasmine has an Honours Degree in Nutrition and a Post Graduate Diploma in Dietetics from the University of London. She has qualifications in teaching young people and adults and has undertaken training in group work and increasing motivation.

UK Bassist Yolanda Charles has been working as a session musician since 1990 starting her career playing for Jimmy Sommerville, Aztec Camera and Paul Weller.

During a career spanning the next 30 years she worked with an eclectic mix of artists including, Robbie Williams, BB King, Eric Clapton, Roger Daltrey, Van Morrison, Mick Jagger, Anastasia, Sinead O’Connor, Daryl Hall, Musical Director for the Eurythmic’s Dave Stewart and TV houseband work with Jonathan Ross, Ricky Wilson (Kaiser Chiefs) & Nicole Scherzinger (Pussy Cat Dolls).

Roger Chase is professor of Viola at Trinity Laban in London, and has taught at the Royal College of Music, the Guildhall School, the Royal Northern College of Music, and Oberlin College (US). He is also Professor of Viola at Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University in Chicago, US.

Katie Chatburn works as a professional composer, arranger / orchestrator specialising in the fields of film music, instrumental concert commissions and rock and pop string arranging. In 2017 she formed Ignition Orchestra as arranger/musical director who have gone on to perform sell out shows at the Royal Albert Hall, Barbican and Eventim Apollo alongside releasing the album ‘Garage Classical’ album in 2019 with Sony.

Koel specialises in Global Shakespeares and Academic English in Higher Education. She has interests in crossover pedagogical practices in the classroom and in applying literary and pedagogical research to affect policy change.

After obtaining a BMus at Birmingham University, Paul Chilvers studied Piano Accompaniment at Trinity College of Music with David Newbold and Antony Linsay. A varied career has seen him as resident pianist at the Players Theatre and Radio 5’s Popcall, rehearsal pianist for the Royal Choral Society under Meredith Davies, and as pianist and MD for many fringe and West End shows, including Van Dyke and Company’s A Kurt Weill Cabaret and the original production of Shrubshall and Free’s Yee-Haw!!