LMP weekend at the grand hotel Eastbourne selling fast
The London Mozart Players’ weekend at the Grand Hotel is now a permanent and popular fixture in the hotel’s calendar. See below for more information about the weekend and how to book… Read more
Fairfield Halls 2013/14 season brochure available online
See below for LMP highlights feature, concert details, friends and booking information. Read more
PRS for music foundation confirms funding support for LMP
Jonathan Dove, one of the UK’s top contemporary composers, and winner of an Ivor Novello Award, will be writing a new cantata to be performed by the London Mozart Players as part of Croydon’s First World War Centenary commemorations next year. Read more
2013/14 Fairfield Halls season announcement
London Mozart Players launches its 2013/14 season at Fairfield Halls, Croydon featuring a host of internationally acclaimed artists and conductors. Browse the Fairfield Classical season brochure below. Read more
Cathy Elliott
Cathy Elliott – Double Bass
Cathy first played with the London Mozart Players in December 1984 shortly after returning to the UK from Italy. Her relationship with the orchestra goes back another decade when courtesy of a school friend’s mother, Eva Gruenbaum, who played violin in the orchestra she used to attend the LMP’s regular Wednesday evening concerts at the Royal Festival Hall with Harry Blech,
Cathy is now co-principal bass with the London Mozart Players as well as a member of The Academy of St Martin in the Fields and the orchestra of the Rambert Dance Company.
Since returning from studies in Italy with Lucio Bucarella and Franco Petracchi, Cathy has devoted a significant amount of her time to teaching and training string teachers. She has taught students at the Royal College, Royal Academy and Guildhall Junior and Senior departments and has a thriving private practice of students aged 6 to adult.
Cathy is co-author of the Guildhall School’s Millennium Award winning Essential String Method, published by Boosey & Hawkes and has also written and published two double bass tutors Ready Steady Go! and An Introduction to Thumb Position on the Double Bass. From 2004-2009 Cathy was Chair of the Management Committee for the British branch of the European String Teachers’ Association and then from 2009-2012 Project Director. In 2009 the International Society of Bassists recognized her as a Young Bassists Ambassador and in 2014 she was the recipient of the ESTA Award for services to ESTA.
Get in to Classical Music
Think that Classical Music isn’t for you? Worried you’ll clap in the wrong place? Love music but not sure whether you like it ‘classical’? LMP’s GET IN concerts launch at Fairfield Halls in Autumn 2013 Mind expanding, extraordinary and deconstructed… Read more
START Project Update: 21 May 2013
Well folks, I think Mr Bailey and his crew of LMP musicians may be on to something here. The children are not only producing and creating some amazing (and very diverse) material Read more
Track of the Week
Kyrie from Roxanna Panufnik’s Schola Missa de Angelis
LMP welcomes Joseph Swensen as guest soloist
The LMP recently welcomed Joseph Swensen as guest soloist in February. Enjoy Swensen’s sublime Brahms Read more
London Mozart Players showcase Dubzart at New Years Day Parade
The LMP combined with a Dubstep DJ at the New Years Day Parade. Read more
Jenny’s Experience
The LMP is currently working in many of Croydon’s primary schools, developing the START project funded by the Prince’s Foundation for Children Read more
One week until Mark Simpson makes his debut performance with the LMP
We are delighted to welcome British clarinettist Mark Simpson, winner of the 2006 BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition, who performs Read more
Fairfield At 50
Fairfield Halls, Croydon celebrates its rich fifty-year history in 2012, celebrating its status as an internationally renowned venue at the forefront of the Borough’s cultural activity with a concert by the LMP on 2 November 2012. Read more