Staff A-Z

Mr. Rogé has performed in almost every major concert hall in the world and with every major orchestra across the globe and has collaborated with the most distinguished conductors in history, including Lorin Maazel, Michael Tilson Thomas, Mariss Jansons, Charles Dutoit, Kurt Masur, Edo de Waart, Alan Gilbert, David Zinman, Marek Janowski, Sir Andrew Davis, Raymond Leppard and others.

One of the world’s most distinguished recording artists, Pascal Rogé has won many prestigious awards, including two Gramophone Awards, a Grand Prix du Disque and an Edison Award for his interpretations of the Ravel and Saint-Saëns concertos, along with the complete piano works of Ravel, Poulenc and Satie.

Several years ago, Mr. Rogé began a new and ambitious recording project for Onyx called the Rogé Edition. With the Vienna Radio Symphony under Bertrand de Billy, he has recently recorded two CDs of both of the Ravel Piano Concertos and the Gershwin Concerto in F and Rhapsody in Blue.

Recently, he has enjoyed playing recitals for four-hands/two-pianos with his partner in life and in music Ami Rogé. Together, they have travelled the world appearing at prestigious festivals and concert halls and recorded several CDs dedicated to the French 2 piano and 4 hands repertoire. In 2011 they gave the premiere of a newly commissioned Concerto for Two Pianos by the composer Matthew Hindson with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy.

Recently chairman of the Geneva Piano competition, Pascal Rogé is also dedicated to teaching and gives regular masterclasses in France, Japan, United States and United Kingdom.

Penelope Roskell combines an international performing career with posts as Professor of Piano at Trinity Laban, and as visiting artist at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. She is also the author of the award-winning book The Complete Pianist: from healthy technique to natural artistry, published by Peters Edition. She has performed as soloist at major concert halls throughout Britain, including the Barbican Concert Hall, Wigmore Hall, Bridgewater Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room. She has also travelled widely throughout the world, playing in over thirty countries in Western and Eastern Europe, the United States, Africa, Asia, and the Middle and Far East. She plays and teaches a very wide range of repertoire. Her first prize at the British Contemporary Piano Competition resulted in numerous invitations to festivals of contemporary music, including eight recitals in Hans Werner Henze’s festivals in Montepulciano and Munich. Her performances of Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann and Shostakovich have been particularly acclaimed. She has played Mozart Concertos with numerous orchestras, including the London Mozart Players at the Barbican Concert Hall and on tour with Sir Simon Rattle. She has also played both Shostakovich Concertos in the Queen Elizabeth Hall with the Docklands Sinfonietta. She is also a committed chamber musician and has performed with many distinguished artists. Over the last twelve fifteen years she has played piano quintets regularly with the Fitzwilliam String Quartet, and plays in the Roskell Piano Trio with the violinist and cellist from the quartet. At Trinity she founded Meridian, a piano and wind ensemble with Trinity professors. Her work with dance companies has included a season of solo performances with Twyla Tharp Dance Company at Sadlers Wells.

Sue studied harp with Renata Scheffel-Stein at the Royal Academy of Music. Her harmony teacher was Dr Paul Steinitz who always encouraged her to compose. Winning several awards, she was the first recipient of the Renata Scheffel-Stein prize, and a prize winner at the first National Harp Competition.

In 1981 Sue was appointed principal harpist of the Bremerhaven Stadt Orchestra in Germany. After returning to London she freelanced, regularly performing with the BBC Concert Orchestra and English National Ballet, also often travelling to play with the Ulster Orchestra and the Symphony Orchestra of Tenerife. Sue also played for various ensembles as soloist and chamber artiste. Being a versatile player she has worked with singers such as Petula Clark and Barry White, and for the group Heaven 17. Together with Sarah Deere-Jones she formed The London Harp Duo, performing at festivals, making live broadcasts for BBC television and sailing around the world on the QE2.

As a composer Sue has written serious and light music, primarily for combinations of harp, piano and voice. Some of her works were premiered at Trinity Laban’s Camac Days Festivals in 2007 and 2009, including her Lament for Harp and String Quartet/Orchestra. She is best known for The Dream Studies and her beginners’ pieces in the Animals series books, which aim to help harpists develop good techniques early on, whilst being imaginative and fun to play. Some have been used as set pieces for competitions abroad and several are on the Trinity exam syllabus.

Before joining Junior Trinity, Sue worked as the harp teacher for the Latymer Saturday Music Centre and the Bedales Schools. She has taught players of all levels on residential courses here and abroad.
Sue has given harp lessons for the senior departments of the RAM, Birmingham Conservatoire, Trinity Laban and the RNCMD where for several years she was a Special External Examiner.

In 2022, Sue and the wonderful harpist Gwenllian Llyr, performed several of Sue’s harp solos and duets for the World Harp Congress held at the RWCMD. Gwenllian’s recording of Sue’s ‘Flying with the Birds Dream’ has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 several times. In 2024 Sue performed and taught at the Edinburgh International Harp Festival. Sue will be one of the adjudicators for the Manchester Harp Competition in 2027.

Adam Rutherford graduated with a BA (Hons) in Dance Theatre before joining Transitions Dance Company (MA Dance Performance) in 2002. Since graduating, he has performed works by many choreographers including Sir Matthew Bourne, Tamsin Fitzgerald, Hofesh Shechter, Enrique Cabrera and Helen Parlor. His many choreographic commissions include works for DanceXchange, 2Faced Dance Company, South East Dance, North East Wales Dance and YDance Scotland. Adam was assistant choreographer to Gary Clarke and rehearsal director for Rosie Kay Dance Company and 2Faced Dance Company, including for their 2016/17 tour Run. He is also the International Resident Choreographer at Accademia Internazionale Coreutica, Italy. In 2013, Adam founded RDC Youth, a professional contemporary dance youth company and Rutherford Dance Company. He was selected for One Dance UK Dancers’ Mentoring Programme 2017/18, awarded the DanceXchange DX Choreography Award 2017 and was shortlisted for the Inspirational Community Dance Practitioner Award at the first One Dance UK Dance Teaching Awards.

Gidon has twice been the recipient of Italy’s leading annual opera award, the Abbiati Prize, won a Gramophone Award for the title role in Handel’s Saul under Rene Jacobs, and has been nominated for both a Dora Award in Canada and for the Golden Mask in Moscow.

He has sung a wide repertoire internationally, and is active as a singing teacher, director, designer and author. He began directing and designing aged 17 in South Africa with Roger McGough’s Puny Little Life Show, and has created work in Manchester, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Antwerp, Ghent and London. He has taught masterclasses in Moscow, Seattle, London, Stavanger, Cape Town, Berlin, Toronto, Cleveland (with Roger Vignoles) and Amsterdam. Next season he creates roles in new operas in Hamburg and Brussels. 

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Olly has performed at venues such as Ronnie Scotts, The Jazz Café, The Elgar room, XOYO, The Royal Festival Hall, The Queen Elizabeth Hall, Pizza Express Jazz Club, The 606, The Vortex, Band on the Wall and Cadogan Hall. He has recorded live radio sessions for BBC Radio 2 with Jamie Cullum, World music on BBC radio 3, BBC 6 music and pre-recorded sessions at Herts Jazz for BBC Jazz on 3. Sarkar has recorded live streams for Ronnie Scotts Jazz Club, Camden Roundhouse Rising Festival, the British Music Embassy’s SXSW showcase and Jazz Re:Freshed’s SXSW showcase live from Abbey Road studio 2.

As a Trinity trust scholar of TrinityLaban Conservatoire of music & dance Sarkar studied under the tutelage of Simon Purcell, Dave Wickens, Gene Calderazzo. Sarkar learnt the importance of studying musical traditions and how to approach new music. Sarkar has furthered his studies

with Jonathan Blake, John Riley, Kenny Washington & Richard Spaven. Olly proudly endorses Canopus drums, Zildjian Cymbals and Vic Firth Drum Sticks.

In demand as a chamber musician, Jan has performed in many of the major concert halls internationally with the Angell Trio, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble, the Schubert Ensemble of London and the Razumovsky Ensemble. He has broadcast for American networks, French and Swiss radio as well as most German radio stations and has appeared on NHK-TV, Japan.  His recordings have appeared on the Sanctuary, ASV, Guild, Lorelt and Chandos labels.

Since 2015, the Angell Trio has collaborated with operatic bass Matthew Rose and soprano Katherine Broderick to commission four new works for voice and trio by Martin Suckling, Kate Whitley, Jordan Hunt and John Woolrich.

As a chamber musician he regularly performs at London’s prestigious Wigmore Hall. As a soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Pieter has performed Arvo Pärt’s Double Concerto with Boris Garlitsky, Brahms’s Double Concerto with Kristina Blaumane, and Britten’s Double Concerto with Alexander Zemtsov, which was recorded and released on the Orchestra’s own record label to great critical acclaim. He has recorded numerous violin solos with the London Philharmonic Orchestra for Chandos, Opera Rara, Naxos, X5, the BBC and for American film and television, and led the Orchestra in its soundtrack recordings for The Lord of the Rings trilogy. In 1995 Pieter became Co-Leader of the Orchestre philharmonique de Nice. Since then he has appeared frequently as Guest Leader with the Barcelona, Bordeaux, Lyon, Baltimore and BBC symphony orchestras, and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Pieter was appointed Leader of the LPO in 2008, having previously been Co-Leader since 2002.

Anneke is principal horn of a number of internationally renowned period instrument ensembles including Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and the English Baroque Soloists, ensemble Pygmalion, The Orchestra of the Sixteen, The Irish Baroque Orchestra, Dunedin Consort and Players, Oxford Bach Soloists and many others. She is similarly in great demand as a guest principal horn, regularly appearing with orchestras and ensembles worldwide. 

Anneke enjoys an international solo career and discography embracing three centuries of virtuosic horn works. Her expertise in baroque horn repertoire ensures that she is frequently to be heard performing the famous obligato arias of composers such as Bach and Handel as well as solo concertos from this period. Her critically acclaimed solo recordings also include three discs focussing on the music of the leading Parisian horn player of the nineteenth century; Jaques-François Gallay. 

Anneke enjoys collaborating with a wide range of musicians and is a key member of a number of chamber music ensembles including nineteenth century period brass ensemble The Prince Regent’s Band, the harmoniemusik ensemble Boxwood & Brass, historic wind ensemble Syrinx and EnsembleF2. She regularly works with leading period keyboardists including Steven Devine, Neal Peres da Costa, Geoffrey Govier and Kathryn Cok and period harpist Frances Kelly. 

In addition to her teaching at Trinity Laban, she also teaches at The University of Birmingham, The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and on the online teaching platform Play with a Pro. In 2018 she was awarded Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Music and in 2019 she was one of the recipients of the International Horn Society “Punto Award”.  

This season he takes up the position of Ring Cycle Conducting Fellow at Longborough Festival Opera, conducting performances of Siegfried, and working towards their Ring Cycle in 2024. A finalist in both the LSO’s Donatella Flick and Athens International Conducting Competitions, he has worked on the music staff at ENO, Den Jyske Opera, and the Grange Festival, collaborating with orchestras including the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Odense Symfoniorkester, and the Britten Sinfonia, and has performed at the Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, and the Barbican. 

Harry’s recent composition highlights include commissions for the Oxford Lieder Festival and the Wigmore Hall, and his musicals James and the Giant Peach, Guess How Much I Love You, and Mr. Men & Little Miss have toured internationally with Sell-A-Door Productions. Other theatre scores include The Kreutzer Sonata (Arcola Theatre), Sleeping Beauty and My Mother Said I Never Should (The Theatre Chipping Norton), King Lear, As You Like It,  and Love’s Labours Lost (The Minack Theatre). For the screen, credits include Stalker (CBS), and Rossum’s Universal Robots for BBC Radio 4 .

As a soloist with orchestra, he has performed with Musikkollegium Winterthur, the London Soloists Chamber Orchestra, the Georgian Philharmonic Orchestra and with the Gulbenkian Symphony Orchestra among others.

He has worked with leading conductors including Christopher Warren-Green, Pascal Rophé, Nikoloz Rachveli and Gianluca Marcianó.

In July 2010 Mikhail won the Bronze Medal at the prestigious Vianna da Motta International Piano Competition in Lisbon.

Mikhail lives in London and plays mostly in the UK and Europe. He has been taking part in numerous festivals across Europe including Zaubersee festival in Lucerne and Suoni dal Golfo in La Spezia, Italy.

Among his chamber music partners are Boris Brovtsyn, Anastasia Kobekina and Natalie Clein. He is interested in historical performance practice and gives recitals on fortepianos.

Mikhail is also known for his collaboration with singers including Anna Gorbacheva, Nardus Williams, Yuri Yurchuk, Tuuli Takkala and Anush Hovhannisyan.

Mikhail’s repertoire stretches from early Baroque to contemporary music with its focus on J. S. Bach, Viennese classics, German romantics and Chopin.

He has recently released two critically acclaimed CDs on Toccata Classics and Stone Records. His new record made on historical Bechstein has been released by Willowhayne Records.

In smaller groups he has played with Gary Husband’s ‘Drive’, Django Bates’ Human Chain, NYC performance artist/violinist Laurie Anderson and pianist/singer-songwriter Steve Nieve, The Smith Quartet, Kirk Lightsey, Norma Winstone, Jason Palmer’s Quartet featuring Jeff Ballard. He is a member of Oren Marshall’s ‘Charming Transport Band’ featuring musicians from Ghana and Nigeria. Julian has also performed with vocalists Cleo Laine, Beverley Knight, Joe Lee Wilson, Liane Carroll, Eddi Reader, Charlene Spiteri, Jacqueline Dankworth, Lizz Wright, Juliet Roberts, Keziah Jones, Terri Walker, Christine Tobin and punk rock legend Steve Ignorant (formerly of Crass).