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CORDA NORTH |
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PRO CORDA NORTH
and PRO CORDA WEST hold annual courses each summer at
Sedbergh School, Cumbria and Wells Cathedral
School, Somerset. The idyllic and peaceful surroundings of
both Schools have generated a great deal of interest in both
courses.
Designed for 8-18 year old string players,
pianists, and for the first time in 2009, for wind players
at Pro Corda West, both courses prove very popular with students who
live in the North of England, the South West, the Midlands,
and South Wales. The Young Music Makers non residential
scheme is also included in the Pro Corda West course.
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Course Director North |
LOUISE LANSDOWN |
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Louise Lansdown has
been a full-time viola and chamber music tutor at
the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester
since 2001, and holds part-time teaching positions
at the University of Manchester and Junior RNCM.
She has been involved with Pro Corda, a school for
gifted young string players and pianists, held at
Leiston Abbey in Suffolk, since 1999, teaching on
the Intermediate, North and Junior Courses, and
Directing the former since 2005. From 2009 Louise
will be directing both the Pro Corda Senior and
North Courses. Louise is an Associated Board
Examiner (ABRSM) and has been invited as an external
examiner for the University of Manchester and
Trinity College of Music, London. Louise has
delivered papers at various musicological
conferences in the UK, South Africa and Australia.
She has also attended the International Viola
Congresses in Glasgow, Iceland, Kronberg, Australia,
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Arizona (2008) and plans to attend the 37th
International Viola Congress in South Africa
(2009). Louise is the Artistic director of the
annual RNCM Viola Day!
Louise’s greatest musical influences have been Jack
de Wet, Eric Rycroft, Lamar Crowson, Alan George,
Thomas Riebl, Chris Rowland, Gabor Takacs-Nagy,
members of the Ysaye Quartet and Milan Skampa. She
holds a B. Mus, B. Mus (Hons) (with distinction in
Performance) and M. Mus from the University of
Stellenbosch, South Africa. In 1998 Louise was
awarded the ABRSM Overseas Scholarship to study at
the Royal Northern College of Music. She graduated
with a Postgraduate Diploma in Performance in 1999,
Master of Music in Performance and Teacher’s
Licentiate in 2000, all with Distinction in
Performance. In 2000 she was also awarded a Junior
Fellowship in Chamber Music at the RNCM along with
the Rachel Godlee Prize for Viola. Louise was a
member of the Yeomans Quartet at the RNCM from
1998-2001, giving recitals around the UK, Europe and
South Africa, as well as recording Haydn and
Sullivan quartets. She has been closely involved
with the annual RNCM Chamber Music Festivals,
founded by the late Dr. Christopher Rowland in 1999,
performing and helping to oversee performances of
the complete chamber music of Haydn, Beethoven,
Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Shostakovich, 20th
century quartets and many more. She is an avid
chamber musician and performs in every spare
moment!
Louise
has recently completed a PhD at the University of
Manchester on the ‘Influences on the young Paul
Hindemith’. Supported by the RNCM, she has travelled
frequently to the Hindemith Institute in Frankfurt
to conduct research for her dissertation. She plays
on a French instrument made around 1750, previously
belonging to Cecil Aronowitz (first Head of Strings
at the RNCM), who she is planning to write a
biography on. She has delivered a paper on the life
and career of Cecil Aronowitz at the 2007
International Viola Congress held in Adelaide and
was a member of the jury for the Fifth Melbourne
International Chamber Music Competition 2007. Louise
is the founder and President of the English Viola
Society, started in September 2007.
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Sample Repertoire |
Bartok
Boyce
Brahms
Hamburg
Haydn
Hewitt Jones
Mozart
Shostakovich |
Music for Children
Trio Sonata in D minor
Sextet Op 18
String Quartets
String Quartets: Op 20 No 4: Op 33 No 3: Op 33 No 6
Piano Trios
Serenade
String Quartets: K156: K171
Piano Quartet in G minor
String Quartet No 1 |
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