THE 66th COULSDON AND PURLEY FESTIVAL

Sarah Dunstan ARCM

Sarah Dunstan won an Associated Board scholarship to study singing at the Royal College of Music where she won a number of prizes including the Macklin Bursary for Postgraduate Opera study. Her performing career has encompassed all aspects of singing, including television work and commercial recording. She has a large teaching practice, which includes postgraduate students from Oxbridge and the London Conservatoires. Sarah has taught for Bromley Youth Trust for many years and coached singers from many leading stage schools. For several years Sarah Dunstan was a member of the audition panel for the National Youth Choir and is now vocal consultant to a number of leading chamber choirs.

Woodwind, Brass, Ensembles and Orchestras

Edwin Roxburgh

After he had completed his studies Edwin was appointed principal oboist in the Sadlers Wells Opera. Subsequently, while a teacher at the Royal College of Music, he began a highly successful career as an oboist, establishing himself as a major interpreter of contemporary repertoire, especially as a virtuoso oboist, giving the UK premieres of Berio’s Sequenza Vii and Holliger’s Cardiophonie. He also established and conducted the 20 th Century Ensemble of London. This was reflected in this teaching when he founded the RCM’s Twentieth Century Ensemble as a Department of Twentieth Century Performance Studies. In collaboration with the late Leon Goosens he was the author of the Mehuhin Music Guide, The Oboe, now in its fourth edition. In 1960 Edwin won the Royal Philharmonic Society Prize, which was followed in 1962 by the Lili Boulanger Trust Award. In 1978 he was awarded a Collard Fellowship and in 1980 the Cobbett Medal for Services to Chamber Music from the Worshipful Company of Musicians. Edwin became a FRCM in 1976 and has been commissioned to compose over 60 works by people and organisations such as the BBC Proms, Three Choirs Festival, RLPO, London Philharmonic, RCM, BBC Singers, Yehudi Menuhin, and Nicholas Daniels, as well as being the composer of music for several films for BBC Television. Following his appointment as Vaughan Williams Fellow in Composition at the RCM, in 2003 he was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship. He is the Associate Composer of the London Festival Orchestra at the Warehouse. As a conductor he has performed over 100 premieres and conducted most of the principal UK orchestras such as BBC Philharmonic, CBSO, RLPO and Philharmonia. In 2005 he was Acting Head of Composition at Birmingham Conservatoire.

Strings

Philip Aslangul

Philip graduated from the Guildhall School of Music in 1990, where he studied cello, piano and conducting with Stefan Popov, Carola Grindea and Alan Hazeldine respectively. He has pursued a varied career; as a cellist, he has given recitals around the country with the Burlington Duo and The Q Piano Trio, including a live radio broadcast in 1991. He has worked as a freelance cellist appearing as principal with orchestras including the National Pops Orchestra, The Camerata of London and The City Chamber Ensemble, and is currently the sub-principal of the English Philharmonia. As a pianist, Philip is in demand as a repetiteur and accompanist; he has worked with the award-winning ladies choir 'Impromptu' for the past 12 years including a performance on BBC2 in 2000 and in 2006 he accompanied the Emerald Chorus on Radio 3. Philip is actively involved in youth music and conducted Kingston Schools Orchestra and Kingston Young Strings between 1998 and 2004. He is currently conductor of Sutton Youth Music Service's Young Musician's String Group, and is coach and stand-in conductor for the Borough's orchestras

Harp

Daphne Boden ARCM FRCM HonARAM FRSA

Daphne Boden, described by the music critic of The Times as "a harpist whose clean, fresh playing was a joy to hear", studied at the RCM under Marie Goossens and Marisa Robles. Continuing her studies at the Brussels Royal Conservatoire with Mirielle Flour, she was awarded the Premier Prix. Her busy concert career has taken her all over the world, giving numerous recitals, lecture-recitals and masterclasses. Daphne Boden has taught in the Junior Department of the RCM for over 20 years. Her pupils have won many prizes in national and international competitions and many now hold orchestral positions in the UK and abroad. She has recorded for VIP Records and is a member of the Board of Directors of the World Harp Congress.

Pianoforte

Teo Li Lin LRAM ARCM ARAM

Teo Li Lin began piano lessons in Singapore with her mother, Lim Siew Kiow, and later with Victor Doggett, the leading teacher in the Far East. At 15 years old, she obtained the LRAM (performers), and won an Associated Board Scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, London, where she studied with Leslie England and Dennis Murdoch, and violin with Jean Harvey. Whilst at the Academy she won most of the piano prizes, culminating in the Macfarren Gold Medal - the highest award for piano playing at the Academy. She also obtained the Performer's ARCM (hons) and Teacher's LRAM. In the summer breaks, she participated in Master Classes with Vlado Perlemuter, Guido Agosti and Carlo Zecchi in Salzburg, Sienna and Oporto. In London, she studied with Louis Kentner for the next 4 years. Since leaving the Academy, she has given recitals, concerts and concerto appearances in UK, Europe, the Far East and Australia. In the late 70's she became an established teacher with the ILEA (London Schools), Coventry Centre for Performing Arts and in private practice in North London, with numerous successes and prize winners in local Competitive Festivals and Associated Board Examinations. She was to combine teaching with concerto engagements and solo recitals in the UK, Singapore and Columbo, together with Radio and TV recitals in France and the Far East. Also piano recitals with Etelvina Rodrigues and Dennis Murdoch and violin-piano duo recitals with Louis Carus and Gillian Findlay, which took her all over the UK, Hong Kong and Australia. In 1988, she was appointed examiner for the Associated Board and undertook overseas tours in 1991 and 1992 (Hong Kong and Taiwan). In 1992, she was appointed an adjudicator for the British and International Federation of Festivals of Music, Dance and Speech and also awarded the ARAM for "distinguished services to music". Now she teaches at the North London Collegiate School for Girls.

Organ

Paul Joslin M Mus GRSM LRAM ARCM

Paul studied at the Royal College of Music under Dr John Birch and Dr Herbert Sumsion, and under Dr Christopher Kent at Reading University. He was a music director & organist with the BBC 'Daily Service' 1989-94 and occasionally still plays for TV's 'Songs of Praise'. Paul was a Council member of the British Institute of Organ Studies 1997-2001 and since 2002 has been Coordinator of their Historic Organ Certificate Scheme (HOCS). He made recordings for the charity on two historic organs in 2007. He has given recitals in many venues in UK including the cathedrals of St Pauls, Liverpool, Portsmouth, Bangor, Oxford Town Hall and has wide experience as an accompanist in the majority of British Cathedrals from Exeter to Durham. In 2009 he directed the UK Study Tour of the Organ Department of the University of Birmingham Alabama USA. A former Director of Music at Holy Trinity Brompton and St Paul's Onslow Square, he is a freelance organist, and is currently acting organist on the 4 manual Willis/Gern organ at St John the Baptist Holland Rd W14. Paul is organ consultant for the St Barnabas Ealing Organ Project 2006-11. Paul is an authority on the organ builders August Gern and George Hele.

Speech and Drama

Rosalind Rokison RBTC LCST

Rosalind trained at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama. She has taught drama to all age groups for over thirty years. Having been closely associated with Beckenham and Bromley Festival, she more recently helped to set up the new Croydon Festival. Rosalind is an actor, director and adjudicator. Having played many of the leading Shakespearean roles she now directs some of the Open Air Shakespeare Productions for the National Trust at Polesden Lacey. Rosalind also prepares students for entry to Drama College.