Elizabeth Bradley

Biography

Elizabeth Bradley started learning the double bass at age 14, and represented Scotland as a finalist in the Shell/LSO string competition whilst a student at the Royal Northern College of Music. She enjoys a varied freelance career, performing and recording with such groups as the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, studio recordings with Muse and Feeder and chamber music with Configure8, Bach Players and Revolutionary Drawing Room. Elizabeth was awarded a Master of Music, Ethnomusicology from SOAS, University of London after pursuing her particular interest in styles of string playing from around the world. Most recently as a bass player she has become part of the Music for Life team, based at Wigmore Hall, which works with people with senile dementia through improvised music-making. She enjoys teaching double bass and being a mentor to young musicians at Junior Trinity, a post she has held since 2003.