Chamber Music Workshop 2024

Bobby Chen

• He was a pupil of Ruth Nye and Hamish Milne at the Yehudi Menuhin School and the Royal Academy of Music and burst on the scene in 1996 playing Beethoven’s Triple Concerto in a British tour with Lord Yehudi Menuhin and the Warsaw Sinfonia, and a recital at the Royal Festival Hall as part of the South Bank Prokofiev Festival. 

• Described by International Piano Magazine as: “an armour-clad player of complete technique, a thinking musician, a natural Romantic.”

Ning Kam

• Singaporean award-winning concert violinist Ning, was the professor of Violin at the conservative Royal de Musique de Bruxelles and is currently Principal Teacher at the Yehudi Menuhin School, UK.

• She was the second Prizewinner at the Queen Elizabeth Competition in 2001, won the Flemish Radio and Television in 2001 and won the Flemish Radio and Television Audience Prize in the same year.

• She has performed with many world-leading orchestras.

Ben Davies

• His work embraces a wide range of ensembles and styles from period performances of early music to contemporary and popular music.

• Since 2000 he has held the position of principal cellist in the English Touring Opera’s orchestra.

• He also works regularly in the Theatres of London's West End, as well as seasons with Glyndebourne and Garsington Opera.

• He plays on a cello made by Cornelius Kleynmann, dating from the late 17th century.

Catherine Lett

• Scholar at Purcell School of Music with Mateja Marinkovic

• Studied at Guildhall School of Music

• Toured with Pressburg Chamber Soloists and performed with Nigel Kennedy, Sir Simon Rattle, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Irish Chamber Orchestra and Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

• She has performed concerto with Belmont Ensemble of London and chamber groups at St Martin in the Fields

• Catherine is also a member of Artington String Quartet 

• Violin teacher at Yehudi Menuhin School and Bedales School

Matthew Lloyd Wilson

• Principal Conductor at Claud Powell Chamber Orchestra

• Has conducted for Winchester Chamber Orchestra, SCYO, WSO, GYSO and a few others

• Since graduating, Matthew has built strong relationships with Surrey County Youth Orchestra, Kingston Philharmonia, Instant Opera, Guildford Opera, Rose Opera and Hampshire County Youth Orchestra. 

• As a chorister at Westminster Abbey, he sang for the Pope in St. Peter's Rome, toured Moscow and made his BBC Proms début as a treble soloist in Mahler's Das Klagende Lied with the BBC Symphony orchestra and chorus. 

Louise Hawker

• Graduated from the Royal College of Music in 2004 where she studied viola with Ian Jewel and went on to further study with Garfield Jackson and Roger Chase. 

• Principal viola of the Belmont Ensemble of London and the Alina Orchestra. She also plays regularly with the Philharmonia Orchestra, the BBC Concert Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as many international tours. 

• Currently teaches viola and violin at Charterhouse School.