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Judith Busbridge

Saturday, 3 May, 2014/in Blog /by LMP

Judith graduated in Music from Birmingham University and completed her viola studies with Thomas Riebl in Salzburg, where she was solo violist in the Camerata Academica under the directorship of Sándor Végh, a post she held for 5 years. Outside her schedule with London Mozart Players she was, until 2011, a founder member of the […]

Sarah Burnett

Saturday, 3 May, 2014/in Blog /by LMP

When did you join the LMP? 2010 Where else do you work? I’m a member of Britten Sinfonia, The Haffner Wind Ensemble and teach at the Royal College of Music. I am also Bassoon Consultant at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.. Any free time after that takes me up and down the country, working for other orchestras […]

Judith Busbridge

Saturday, 3 May, 2014/in Blog /by LMP

Sarah Burnett

Saturday, 3 May, 2014/in Blog /by LMP

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Judith Busbridge

Saturday, 3 May, 2014/in Blog /by LMP

Outside her schedule with London Mozart Players she was, until 2011, a founder member of the multi-award-winning Dante String Quartet, with whom she performed at major concert halls and festivals throughout the UK and Europe, winning the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Chamber Music in 2007.
From 2010-13 she was violist with Ensemble 360, a versatile group of eleven musicians of international standing who enjoy a residency in Sheffield with Music in the Round, and with whom she again won the RPS Award for chamber music in 2013.

Judith’s varied freelance career also includes playing guest principal viola with the English Chamber Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Opera House, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and The Academy of St Martin in the Fields. She is also solo viola in John Eliot Gardiner’s Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, which performs repertoire of nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on period instruments.

Since September 2013 she is also one of the principal violas with the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Sarah Burnett

Saturday, 3 May, 2014/in Blog /by LMP

When did you join the LMP?

2010

Where else do you work?

I’m a member of Britten Sinfonia, The Haffner Wind Ensemble and teach at the Royal College of Music. I am also Bassoon Consultant at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.. Any free time after that takes me up and down the country, working for other orchestras as guest principal, as well as giving masterclasses and doing the odd bit of session work.

When did you start playing the bassoon?

Aged 11

What is your first musical memory?

Playing for the first time ever in an orchestra. It was Shostakovich’s 5^th Symphony with the National Youth Orchestra. I was only 12 and was totally overwhelmed by the sheer raw power of the music.

What is special about your instument?

It’s an old 1927 Heckel with a huge history, and it happens to have been made the same year as my house was built. It has a warm singing voice with many individual quirks, which always makes it interesting to play. Shostakovich said the bassoon was the instrument closest to the human voice; I don’t think you can get a better compliment than that.

What do you do in your spare time?

I love being outdoors, whether it’s just pottering in the garden, going for walks and cycles or having a barbeque. Friends and family are extremely important to me; there’s nothing better than sharing food and wine with those you love.