Staff A-Z

Matthew is passionate about music education, and works as a percussion tutor for Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, the University of Liverpool and the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. He is also a mentor on the RLPO Emerging Musicians Fellowship.

Matthew attended the Royal Academy of Music, from which he holds both a Bachelor of Music (Honours) and Master of Arts (Distinction).

David Brodowski is the Lead Tutor for Strings at Junior Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, where he oversees the string department, coaches violin and chamber music, and supports the pedagogical development of young musicians. His primary focus is on helping students build solid technical foundations, strong ensemble skills, and musical confidence.

Before turning his main focus to teaching, David spent many years as the leader of the Brodowski Quartet. During his time with the ensemble, they performed regularly at major venues across the UK and abroad – including Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, and the Purcell Room – alongside broadcasts for BBC Radio 3. The quartet were also prize winners at several prestigious competitions, including the Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition, the Val Tidone and Zinetti international chamber music competitions in Italy, and the Charles Hennen International Chamber Music Competition in the Netherlands.

Alongside his core work at Junior Trinity, David serves on the Board of Directors for Cambridge Camerata Academy and enjoys contributing to broader educational projects. He regularly coaches chamber groups, has coordinated collaborative string masterclasses with musicians from the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, and teaches at summer courses, including Pro Corda and in 2027 the London Suzuki Group International Summer School at Bryanston.

Recordings:

​Flight – Dave Stapleton & Brodowski Quartet (Edition Records)

John Pickard: Chamber Music, Vol. 2 (String Quartets Nos. 1 & 5) – Brodowski Quartet (Toccata Classics)

English Recorder Works – Jill Kemp, Aleksander Szram & Brodowski Quartet (MMC Records)

Qualifications:

• PhD entitled Biomechanical analysis of the impact of fatigue on the Dorsi flexors and Plantarflexors
• MSc in Applied Sport Science
• BSc (Hons) Sport Science
• Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in HE (PG-CertHE)

Teaching Experience:

• Senior lecturer and course director, Sports Analysis and Coaching, Kingston University.
• Senior laboratory technician, Kingston University.

Outputs:

Howatson, G., Goodall, S., Hill, J., Brouner, J., Gaze, D., McHugh, M. P., Shave, R. (2011). The influence of dietary antioxidant supplementation on exercise-induced cardiac troponin release. International Journal of Cardiology, 152 (1), 101 – 102

Howatson, G., McHugh, M.P., Hill, J., Brouner, J., Jewell, A., van Someren, K.A., and Shave, R. Howatson, S.A. (2010). The effects of a tart cherry juice supplement on muscle damage, inflammation, oxidative stress and recovery following Marathon running. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, 20, 843-52.

Howatson, G., McHugh, M. P.,  Hill, J. A., Brouner, J., Jewell, A. P., van Someren, K. A., Shave, R. E. and Howatson, S. A. (2009). Influence of Tart Cherry Juice on Indices of recovery Following Marathon Running, Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, 19(5) 975 – 979

Howatson, G.; Glaister, M.; Brouner, J.; van Someren, K. A. (2009). The reliability of electromechanical delay and torque during isometric and concentric isokinetic contractions, Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology, 19(5) 975-979

Further debuts include in the role of Kostelnička (Jenůfa) for Grange Park Opera, both Gertrude and The Witch (Hänsel und Gretel) for Opera North and Grange Park Opera, Mrs Lovett (Sweeney Todd) for Houston Grand Opera, her debut as Mother in the European premier of Missy Mazzoli’s award winning Breaking the Waves for Scottish Opera also at the Edinburgh International Festival, and a welcome return to the role of Mrs Lovett with Bergen National Opera. New roles in the 2019/20 season include in special virtual projects Feast in the Time of Plague and her debut as an actor in Keith Warner’s unique staging of King Lear in which she plays Goneril at The Grange Festival. Susan’s vast and diverse concert work has included the Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra and with Zubin Mehta and the orchestra of the Bayerische Staatsoper.

Popular appearances have included the Last Night of the Proms in 2011 and a special appearance at the London 2012 Olympics closing ceremony. Last season Susan returned to Wigmore Hall in their Late Night series with pianist Richard Sisson in an eclectic programme —Songs my father taught me—which ranged from Sondheim to Noel Coward and Burt Bacharach. This season she joins theRoyal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall for a gala concert in celebration of Raymond Gubbay. Susan Bullock’s substantial discography includes Der Ring des Nibelungen with Oper Frankfurt under Sebastian Weigle on Oehms Classics (also available on DVD), and the title role in Salome with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Sir Charles Mackerras for Chandos.

Over the course of her career, in the UK and abroad, she has worked in a broad range of roles including dance artist, choreographer, producer, CPD facilitator, inclusive consultant and Artistic Director. She is passionate about making dance accessible to all and works with a wide range of abilities and ages from 2 to 102. Vicki has extensive experience facilitating dance opportunities for people who define as disabled, neurodivergent, learning disabled, D/deaf, blind and visually impaired, people with long term health conditions and people living with dementia.

Outside of Trinity Laban Vicki teaches nationally for a variety of companies including the Royal Ballet and Opera, DanceEast, Shobana Jeyasingh Dance and Stopgap Dance Company. Under her company Dash Dot Dance, she facilitates multi-media projects, delivers professional development training (CPD) with a focus on making dance accessible to all and provides accessible participatory and performance projects for a range of organisations such as The Albany, Museum of London, Lord Mayor’s Show, The Barbican and Liberty Festival – London’s flagship festival celebrating groundbreaking work by D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists.

Teaching includes the NYO cello coach for 10 years, and chamber music coach for Cambridge music faculty. Her countless pupils have ranged from King Charles to her present Trinity Laban pupils where she has taught for 30 years. 

“I am devoted to teaching and seeing people find themselves and succeed!” 

Naomi has conducted many small orchestras including Trinity Laban Sinfonia and organised numerous courses at her home. 

As a jazz bass player and singer she went on tour with John Cleese and the Cambridge Footlights to various festivals in the 60s. 

Her love of painting, writing,  poetry, horses not to mention French cooking and her 5 children plus grand children and now great grand children keep her firing on all cylinders! She is married to the composer and writer Antony le Fleming 

Teresa is regularly on the jury of many national and international voice competitions including the National Mozart Competition, the Kathleen Ferrier, the Royal Overseas League and the International Vocal Concours in S’Hertogenbosch, where she also gives masterclasses. Other masterclasses include the Royal Academy of Music, Oxford University and Dartington Summer School.

Can is currently working on an 11 album survey of Schubert’s complete major works in combination with other pieces inspired by Schubert for BIS Records which will be released between 2023 and the 200th anniversary of Schubert’s death, 2028. Praising the Vol. 1 of the series, Bryce Morrison (International Piano) wrote “Truly great recordings of Schubert’s piano sonatas are rare (Schnabel, Kempff, Brendel and, more recently, Volodos come to mind), but I know of few to match Can Çakmur’s supple and penetrating confirmation of Schubert’s genius.”

Can has performed in a variety of concert halls worldwide, including Wigmore Hall in London, Glasgow Concert Hall, Eindhoven Muziekgebouw, Tokyo Opera City, Suntory Hall, Fondation Louis Vuitton as well as the most prestigious concert venues in his homeland, Turkey. He has appeared in the most important classical music festivals in the country including the Istanbul Music Festival, where he headlined the opening concert in 2015 with Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra under Sascha Goetzel. Recent highlights include the Japanese premiere of Thomas Adés’ In Seven Days at the Suntory Hall with Yomiuri

Nippon Symphony Orchestra conducted by Masato Suzuki, the closing concert of Festa Musica MUZA Kawasaki with Tokyo Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tadaaki Otaka and an excellently received recital debut at Fondation Louis Vuitton. Can’s recitals and concerts have been recorded and broadcast by BBC 3, Radio Musique France, Arte, NHK, Turkish National Radio and Television, Deutschlandfunk and Classic FM.

Among Can’s regular chamber music partners are Veriko Tchumburidze and Dorukhan Doruk (as Vecando Trio formed in 2021), cellist Alexandre Castro-Balbi and double-bassist Dominik Wagner. Alexandre and Can are currently working on a recording of Beethoven’s complete works for Passavant, to be released in 2024.
Can was appointed to a piano professorship at Trinity Laban Conservatoire for Music and Dance in 2022, at the age of 24, becoming one of the youngest professors to date at the institute.

His first musical impulses came with Emre Şen, Jun Kanno and Marcella Crudeli. He has later studied with Diane Andersen privately and with Grigory Gruzman at the Franz Liszt University of Music Weimar. His studies were made possible by generous guidance and support by G & S Pekinel Young Musicians on World Stages.

Hannah is an independent dance artist and teacher based in London. Since graduating with an MA in Dance Performance (Trinity Laban) she has danced with Nina Kov, Masha Gurina, Nutshell Dance Company, SKADooSH Dance, Daisy Farris Dance Collective and as part of the Olympics Closing Ceremony directed by Kim Gavin.

Hannah teaches dance across a range of professional and educational settings and has been part of the Dance Faculty at Trinity Laban since 2014. She is also an Associate Dance Artist for English National Ballet (ENB) delivering open technique classes and creative workshops to a wide range of participant groups. From 2018-21 Hannah was the contemporary dance tutor at ENB School, delivering contemporary technique, creative workshops and audition coaching for all three year groups. She produced choreographic work for second year students as part of the Winter Showcase (2018/9), directed contemporary classwork as part of a showcase filmed at The Roundhouse (2020), and supported the rehearsal direction of works by Jose Agudo and Didy Veldman. She has taught on the BA programme at Bird College (2016-18) and as a freelance dance artist for City Academy, Springs Dance Company and University of Portsmouth amongst others.

Alongside teaching, Hannah has presented her own choreographic work as part of Resolution! Festival (The Place, London) and has extensive experience working with artists from other disciplines, most recently with visual artist, Emma Cousins. She has developed a keen interest in capturing movement (through film, drawing and text) collaborating with filmmakers and artists to gain new perspectives on the moving body and our relationship to wider contexts. Hannah has worked as Rehearsal Director on a number of short dance films including Michael Boucherie’s ‘OneShot’ (Trinity Laban), Lingjing Yin’s ‘Touch the Sound’ (YAMAHA) and Ron Arad’s ‘Curtain Call’ (The Roundhouse, London).

Professor Dave Camlin is an award-winning musician from Cumbria (UK) whose practice spans performance, composition, teaching, community music and research. His research interests include: community music, especially group singing; music, health and wellbeing; musician education. He has pioneered the use of Sensemaker® ‘distributed ethnography’ as a research method for understanding artistic and cultural experiences. His recent book Music Making and Civic Imagination explores the potential of music making as both a complex adaptive system (CAS) and a global resource for sustainability.