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The 2010 judges

Last updated: 07 April 2010

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Final adjudicators

Noriko Ogawa

Noriko OgawaSince achieving her first great success at Leeds International Piano Competition, Noriko Ogawa has worked with leading orchestras and conductors, such as Dutoit, Vanska, Slatkin and Otaka. Ogawa is also renowned as a recitalist and chamber musician, performing with artists such as Evelyn Glennie. In 2001 Ogawa established a piano duo with Kathryn Stott. Ogawa regularly commissions new works and in 2008-09 Ogawa performed premieres of works by Fujikura and Kanno.

Ogawa is an exclusive recording artist for BIS Records. Her discography includes Takemitsu Riverrun and Mussorgsky 'Pictures at an Exhibition'. Ogawa's ongoing series with BIS presents the complete solo works for piano by Debussy, which has already won critical acclaim.

Ogawa has received the Japanese Ministry of Education's Art Prize in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the global cultural profile of Japan. Since 2004 Ogawa has acted as artistic advisor for the MUZA Kawasaki Symphony Hall. Ogawa made her debut solo recital at Suntory Hall in February 2008.

A regular contributor to the music press, Ogawa has recently released her first book in Japan 'Together with the Piano'.

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Alexander Shelley

Alexander ShelleyThe 30-year-old English conductor Alexander Shelley is rapidly establishing himself as one of the most creative musical talents of his generation. Unanimously awarded first prize in the 2005 Leeds Conductors Competition, Shelley was described in the press as "the most exciting and gifted young conductor to have taken this highly prestigious award. His conducting technique is immaculate, everything crystal clear and a tool to his inborn musicality."

A regular guest conductor in Germany, where he studied conducting, Shelley has recently worked in Hamburg, Leipzig, Hannover, Cologne and Bremen and in September 2009 took up his post as Principal Conductor of Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra. This season he has made highly-acclaimed debuts with Rotterdam Philharmonic, the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa and Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra in Caracas, all of which resulted in immediate re-invitations.

Future engagements include Frankfurt Radio, Salzburg Mozarteum, Stockholm Philharmonic, Melbourne Symphony and Royal Danish Opera. The son of professional musicians, Shelley studied cello with Timothy Hugh and Steven Doane at the Royal College of Music and with Professor Johannes Goritzki at the Robert-Schumann- Hochschule, Dusseldorf where he also studied conducting with Professor Thomas Gabrisch.

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Emily Beynon

Emily BeynonEmily Beynon is principal flute of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam. Born in Wales, she began her flute studies as a junior at the Royal College of Music and then went on to study with William Bennett at the Royal Academy and Alain Marion in Paris.

Equally at home in front of the orchestra as in its midst, Emily performs regularly as a concerto soloist and has recorded four concerto CDs, the latest of which "Flute Mystery" (Ashkenazy/Philharmonia) was nominated for a Grammy earlier this year.

As a chamber musician she works regularly with her sister, harpist Catherine Beynon and pianist Andrew West and has made guest appearances with the Nash Ensemble, Steven Isserlis, Dame Felicity Lott, Jean-Yves Tibaudet, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, the Kungsbacka Trio and Brodsky Quartet. She has made five recital discs, is frequently heard on Â鶹Éç radio and has featured in television documentaries for Thames, Â鶹Éç and AVRO (Netherlands).

Emily is an enthusiastic protagonist of new music and has had many new works written for her by some of the UK's leading composers: John Woolrich, Sally Beamish, Jonathan Dove, Errollyn Wallen, John McCabe and Roxanna Panufnik. She collaborated on a book of contemporary works entitled "Flute Project: new pieces for flute solo" for Universal Edition and has published two books with CDs for De Haske publishers; Bel Canto and Garioldi & Köhler Etudes.

A passionate and dedicated teacher, Emily is regularly invited to give master classes all over the world. In 2009, together with Suzanne Wolff, Emily set up a new flute summer school, The Netherlands Flute Academy.

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Colin Matthews

Colin MatthewsColin Matthews was born in London in 1946. He studied at the Universities of Nottingham and Sussex, and with Nicholas Maw; subsequently he worked with Britten in Aldeburgh and with Imogen Holst. He collaborated with Deryck Cooke for many years on the performing version of Mahler's Tenth Symphony.

Since the early 1970s his music has ranged from solo piano music through three string quartets and many ensemble and orchestral works. From 1992-9 he was Associate Composer with the London Symphony Orchestra, writing amongst other works a Cello Concerto for Rostropovich. In 1997 his choral/orchestral Renewal, commissioned for the 50th anniversary of Â鶹Éç Radio 3, was given a Royal Philharmonic Society Award.

Recent works include Reflected Images for the San Francisco SO, Berceuse for Dresden for the New York Philharmonic and Turning Point for the Concertgebouw Orchestra. He is Composer-in-Association with the Hallé, for whom he completed his orchestrations of Debussy's 24 Preludes in 2007.

His violin concerto for Leila Josefowicz and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra was premiered last October, with future performances forthcoming worldwide. Current commissions include works for the London Sinfonietta, City of London Sinfonia, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra and the Elias Quartet

He is Music Director of the Britten-Pears Foundation, Executive Director of the Holst Foundation, and founder of the NMC record label.

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Baiba Skride

Baiba SkrideStill in her twenties, over recent seasons Baiba Skride has appeared with many of the world's leading orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, Sinfonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunk and the Orchestre de Paris.

Highlights this season include a UK tour with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under fellow Latvian Andris Nelsons, followed by an extensive tour in Germany and performances with the Â鶹Éç Scottish, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Radio Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, Stockholm Philharmonic, Cincinnati and Houston Symphony Orchestra. Conductors Skride collaborates with this season include Donald Runnicles, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Vasily Petrenko, Sakari Oramo, Mario Venzago and Thierry Fischer. Forthcoming debuts include the Berlin Philharmonic and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.

With her regular recital partner and sister Lauma Skride, she performs worldwide including at London's Wigmore Hall, Leipzig's Gewandhaus and touring in Japan and the USA. The most recent release, amongst her exclusive recordings for Sony is an all-Tchaikovsky disc with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Nelsons. Further recordings include a duo disc with Lauma Skride, a solo violin disc as well as a Shostakovich concerto disc.

Baiba Skride plays the Stradivarius "Wilhelmj" violin (1725), which is generously on loan to her from the Nippon Music Foundation.

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Semi-final adjudicators

Tolga Kashif

Tolga KashifTolga Kashif is regarded as one of the most talented and multi-faceted musicians Britain has produced in many generations. He is equally at home composing, on the conductor's podium or behind the controls as a record producer.

He has worked with a wide-ranging group of artists, from Elton John, David Bowie and Bono to Lesley Garrett, Paul Daniel and Sir Andrew Davis. He was one-half of the Music Sculptors, creating themes for film and TV productions in the UK and worldwide but he had previously worked as a conductor with orchestras including the Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.

His Queen Symphony (2002), based on themes of the famous band and commissioned by EMI Classics, has become one of the most popular and widely-performed new orchestral pieces in the last decade and the composer himself has conducted it in the UK, Netherlands, Australia and Portugal. With this and other works he has appeared with orchestras including the Sydney Symphony, Orchestra of Opera North, Northern Sinfonia and Orquestra Nacional do Porto.

He has been composer, arranger and producer on CDs for all of the major UK labels and is currently working on a new Mass and a piece based on the music of Genesis. He is a board member of the National Foundation for Youth and Music and Future Talent.

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Zoë Martlew

Zoë MartlewZoë Martlew studied at the Royal College and Academy of Music, Clare College, Cambridge and the Chopin Academy in Warsaw. She performs and records around the world as soloist and with many contemporary music groups, rock, pop, improvisation and electronica artists including Ensemble Modern, London Sinfonietta, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Lontano, Radiohead, Butch Morris, Sir Paul McCartney, Super Furry Animals, Ceramic Dog, Plaid and Katie Melua.

She has worked extensively in dance and theatre as composer/performer, including an ongoing collaboration with New City Ballet dancer/choreographer Antonia Franceschi and Ballet Black at the Lindbury Studio, Royal Opera house; POP8 Giant Olive Theatre; Ballet Boyz Encore, Sadlers Wells; Ghostward, Almeida Theatre; Warning to the Curious Eastern Angles Theatre; Impropera comedy improv. at Leicester Sq Theatre and many London productions including National Theatre, Donmar Warehouse, Bridewell and Gielgud theatres.

Zoë was a judge on Â鶹Éç TWO's Maestro; is a regular commentator/presenter for the Â鶹Éç's Proms and Radio 3's Hear and Now; recently appeared on Â鶹Éç TWO's Newsnight Review and was on the UK panel for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest.

She is much in demand for educational activities and has worked with disabled and autistic children, drug addicts, in prisons, universities and music colleges at home and abroad.

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Anna Meredith

Anna MeredithAnna Meredith is a composer of acoustic and electronic music as well as a performer, curator and animateur.

Anna has recently been appointed as the third PRS/RPS Composer in the House and will be working with André de Ridder and Sinfonia Viva from 2010-2012.

As a concert composer she has written for Ensemble Modern, the LSO, the London Sinfonietta, the Â鶹Éç Philharmonic, the SCO, the Smith Quartet, orkest de ereprijs and Horses Brawl amongst many others, and was Resident Composer of the Â鶹Éç SSO between 2004-2007. Anna's first opera, Tarantula in Petrol Blue, with libretto by Philip Ridley, was recently premiered at Aldeburgh Music.

In 2008, Anna wrote froms for the 2008 Last Night of the Proms which used live elements from the various Last Night of the Proms and Proms in the Park concerts and was televised to over 40 million people.

Projects during 2009 included mentoring Goldie for the documentary Classic Goldie for his Prom commission, her own new Prom Commission - a Double Piano Concerto Left Light for Philip Moore and Simon Crawford-Phillips and the Britten Sinfonia, and orchestral arrangements for electronica artists Matmos and the LCO. She is currently working on a Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra with the beatboxer Shlomo, due for performance in the Southbank Centre in Feb 2010.

Anna frequently works with visual artists, especially her sister Eleanor Meredith and has performed her electronic pieces at Faster than Sound, Barbican Cinema, KOKO, Bongo Club, and the Luminaire. She plans to put together an album of her electronic pieces during the coming year.

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General adjudicator

Hilary Boulding

Hilary BouldingHilary Boulding's career combines over 20 years as a successful practitioner and senior executive in the arts and creative industries. In 2007 she took up the role of Principal of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama where she is leading a significant expansion of the College's estate to incorporate extensive new world class performance and rehearsal facilities. In 2009 the College became the first All Steinway Conservatoire in the UK, taking delivery of 62 brand new pianos.

From 1999 to 2007, as Director of Music Strategy at Arts Council England, she was responsible for national leadership in Music within the arts funding system in England. During that period she oversaw the successful stabilisation of the English symphony orchestra sector which provided a springboard for artistic growth and renewal. She was an advisor to the Department for Children, Schools and Families' (formerly DfES) Music and Dance Scheme, which established bursary funding and a nationwide expansion of Centres for Advanced Training for young musicians and dancers with exceptional potential.

Between 1978 and 1999, Hilary had a successful career as a programme maker for the Â鶹Éç in music and arts broadcasting. She produced and directed programmes for Â鶹Éç Television, including jazz, opera, the Â鶹Éç Proms, competitions such as Cardiff Singer of the World and Young Musician of the Year, as well as arts documentaries. From 1998 to 2000 she co-produced all chamber music for Â鶹Éç TWO. In 1989 she produced and directed TV coverage of the return to the USSR by Vladimir Ashkenazy in the early days of glasnost, on the very day that the Berlin Wall was opened.

In 1992 Hilary established a Â鶹Éç Arts and Music department to serve Wales and the UK across the full breadth of arts disciplines. Within 3 years of its establishment, the unit was designated a Centre of Excellence for Music within the Â鶹Éç, providing one third of the music output for Â鶹Éç Television.

Between 1997-99 she was Commissioning Editor, Music Policy at Â鶹Éç Radio 3, responsible for commissioning music and speech programmes for the network.

She graduated with a degree in Music from St. Hilda's College, Oxford University in 1978.

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Brass adjudicators

Tim Thorpe

Tim ThorpeTim was appointed Principal Horn of the Â鶹Éç National Orchestra of Wales in 2005 at the age of 22. He remains the youngest Principal Horn in any of the major UK symphony orchestras.

His early experience included spells as Principal Horn with both the National and European Union Youth Orchestras. In 2002 he was UK finalist in the Paxman International Horn competition and in 2004 he won a Royal Overseas League Award and the Philip Jones Memorial Prize. As a professional he has played with all the major London orchestras and with several prestigious chamber ensembles. He has given many solo performances, most recently the Mathias Horn Concerto with the Â鶹Éç National Ochestra of Wales.

In 2009 he released his CD Midsummer which includes music ranging from Bach and Purcell to Morricone and Bernstein.

Now a professor at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Tim is involved in coaching and masterclasses for aspiring French Horn players.

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Dean Wright

Dean WrightSince joining the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera in 1997 as Principal Trumpet, Dean has enjoyed a diverse, exciting, and fulfilling career. Dean performs both on and off stage and has also been a guest soloist for orchestra concert tours, performing the Haydn Trumpet Concerto which was televised for HTV.

Born in Preston, Lancashire, in 1971, Dean trained at the Royal Northern College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and was a member of the prestigious European Union Youth Orchestra as Principal Trumpet playing under the batons of world famous conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Carlo Maria Giulini, and Georges Pretre.

Dean lives in the Vale of Glamorgan with his wife and two chidren. He is strongly committed to teaching and education work and is a Professor of Trumpet at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama Category Final, as well as a regular guest musician for the Touch Trust in the Wales Millennium Centre. Dean is a great supporter of young musicians and is delighted to be a judge for the Brass Category Final of the prestigious Â鶹Éç Young Musician 2010 competition.

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Strings adjudicators

Gabriella Dall'Olio

Gabriella Dall'OlioGabriella Dall'Olio has inspired audiences with solo recitals and chamber music concerts throughout the world and gained considerable international recognition and prizes. She has two highly acclaimed solo CDs to her name on Claves label, as well as concertos, duos and chamber ensemble CD recordings (Stradivarius, Dal Segno, Ambitus, AVS, etc). She collaborates regularly with some of the world's finest orchestras and conductors including the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Vienna Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra, Bayerisches Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino under Rattle, Harnoncourt, Janssen, Maazel, Petrenko. Her enthusiastic and communicative approach has given her a wealth of experience in all music fields, including community work and education.

Gabriella is Head of Harp Studies and teaches at the Junior and Senior Departments at the Trinity College of Music, London. She is well known as an adjudicator and has been invited to give masterclasses in England and abroad (France, Spain, Sweden, Tasmania).

Gabriella, born and bred in her beautiful Italian home town of Bologna, trained in Italy, Germany and France with Fabrice Pierre, Pierre Jamet, Jaqueline Borot, Anna Loro, Giselle Herbert. She has lived in London since 1995.

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Matthew Trusler

Matthew TruslerHailed by The Times as "an authentic, though British, virtuoso" Matthew Trusler graduated from Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music in 1998. A passionate lover of the style and approach to violin playing during the Heifetz era, Trusler receives much acclaim for his performances of concertos by Walton, Berg, Britten, Prokofiev and Korngold.

Matthew Trusler has been invited to perform as a recitalist and concerto soloist throughout Europe, Australia, the USA, Japan and South Africa, and has performed in leading venues around the world including the Wigmore Hall in London, the Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, and the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels.

In addition to performing, Matthew Trusler has founded a record label, Orchid Classics, and The Lenny Trusler Children's Foundation, raising money for young children in ill health. With a passion for film, he recently consulted on the screenplay being adapted from Norman Lebrecht's award winning novel, The Song of Names.

Matthew plays a 1711 Stradivarius.

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Keyboard adjudicators

Anna Markland

Anna MarklandAnna Markland has been active in the classical music world for over 25 years, with successful careers as a pianist, singer (as Anna Crookes) and piano teacher. Winner of the Â鶹Éç Young Musician of the Year competition in 1982, she has performed as guest soloist with orchestras throughout the UK, in addition to giving recitals to music clubs and societies both large and small.

Anna was a student at Chetham's School of Music, before winning an Instrumental Scholarship to study music at Worcester College, Oxford. She then spent two years as a post-graduate at the Royal Academy of Music. It was while at Oxford that her parallel singing career began, co-founding the vocal ensemble "I Fagiolini".

In addition to her singing with I Fagiolini, Anna is a regular performer with groups such as The Sixteen, The Dunedin Consort, Tenebrae and Trinity Baroque, whose work takes her regularly to Europe and beyond, and she appeared as a soloist with the Monteverdi Choir in the 2007 Â鶹Éç Proms.

Recent highlights have included performances of Carnival of the Animals with pianist Philip Fowke, working with Barroksolisten in Oslo as well as singing with I Fagiolini at the Trigonale Festival in Austria and at the 2009 Christmas celebrations at Kings Place, London. Future plans see recitals in the west country, a performance of Griegs piano concerto, and engagements with I Fagiolini, La Grande Chapelle and The Sixteen.

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Lucy Parham

Lucy ParhamAcknowledged as one of Britain's finest pianists, Lucy Parham first came to public attention when she won the Piano Final of the 1984 Â鶹Éç Young Musician of the Year. Since then, she has played throughout the UK with most of the major British orchestras. She's toured with the Â鶹Éç Concert Orchestra on their 50th anniversary, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Russian State Symphony, Sofia Philharmonic, Polish National Radio SO and L'Orchestre National de Lille.

She has made numerous recordings including Rhapsody in Blue (EMI Gold) and concertos by Ravel, Fauré and Franck (RPO records). Her CD of Clara and Robert Schumann Concertos (Â鶹Éç CO/Sanctuary) won the Â鶹Éç Music Magazine "Critics' Choice of the Year".

Her life-long passion for the music of Schumann inspired the original concept of the words and music evening, Beloved Clara. The CD of Beloved Clara (ASV) was released to critical acclaim. Two further evenings, Liszt - An Odyssey of Love and Nocturne - The Romantic Life of Frédéric Chopin premiered in the London Pianoforte Series at the Wigmore Hall. Actors who appear in these programmes include Martin Jarvis, Joanna David, Edward Fox, Juliet Stevenson, Rufus Sewell, Charles Dance and Harriet Walter. Later this year she is the Director of Schumann 200 Festival to be held at King's Place.

Lucy Parham has been a frequent guest presenter for Â鶹Éç Radio 3 on many programmes including CD Review, Building a Library and Composer of the Week. In 2006 and 2009 she was the commentator for the Leeds International Piano Competition on Â鶹Éç TV.

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Woodwind adjudicators

Jaroslaw Augustyniak

Jaroslaw AugustyniakJaroslaw Augustyniak was born in Poland in 1965. He began studying the bassoon at 12, graduating from the Academy of Music in Lódz. He was a laureate in the XXI Competition of Young Instrumentalists in Wloszakowice, Poland. He became Principal Bassoon of Â鶹Éç National Orchestra of Wales in 2004, following 13 years as Principal Bassoon with the Basque National Orchestra.

He has performed all over Europe and in the USA, Argentina and Chile, in over 200 venues including the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Zurich Tonhalle, the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, London's Royal Albert Hall, the Berlin Konzerthaus and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.

He has participated in major European music festivals including the Warsaw Autumn, Prague Spring, Schleswig-Holstein and the Â鶹Éç Proms.

Jaroslaw also enjoys an active solo career, performing repertoire from Vivaldi via Mozart and Weber to Françaix, Richard Strauss and Jolivet.

He is active as a chamber musician, too, and is a founding member of Quinteto Barroco and the wind quintet Alizé. In the UK he is a member of Â鶹Éç NOW Soloists and Quintillion Ensemble. He has also made a number of chamber recordings.

His teaching experience dates back to 1989 and he has subsequently given numerous masterclasses in Poland, Portugal, Spain and United Kingdom as well as organising annual woodwind summer courses in Poland.

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Michael Collins

Michael CollinsMichael Collins' dazzling virtuosity and sensitive musicianship have made him one of today's most sought-after soloists. He performs as a soloist with many of the world's major orchestras, including the Philadelphia, Leipzig Gewandhaus, City of Birmingham Symphony, Sydney Symphony, Â鶹Éç Symphony and Philharmonia Orchestra.

A recent recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society's Instrumentalist of the Year Award, this award places Collins amongst past recipients such as Itzhak Perlman, Mitsuko Uchida, Murray Perahia and Andras Schiff. The award was made in recognition of the pivotal role that Collins has played in expanding the clarinet repertoire. Michael Collins commissions and premieres repertoire by prominent composers, including John Adams, Elliott Carter, John Corigliano, Elena Kats-Chernin, Thea Musgrave and Mark Anthony Turnage. Engagements in his current diary include New York's Mostly Mozart Festival, Orchestra della Radiotelevisione Svizzera Italiana in Lugano, Tampere Philharmonic, Russian National Orchestra, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Tasmanian Symphony and Auckland Philharmonia.

Michael Collins is also in demand as a chamber musician, regularly performing ensembles with artists such as the Belcea Quartet, Martha Argerich, Mikhail Pletnev, Lars Vogt and Joshua Bell. In 1988 he founded London Winds who have since appeared regularly throughout the UK and at many international festivals.

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Percussion adjudicators

Steven Barnard

Steven BarnardSteven Barnard A.R.A.M was born in Nottingham and began playing the drums at the age of 4. At 17, he was awarded a place at the Royal Academy of Music where he studied with the legendary James Blades and Nicholas Cole.

In 1979 at the age of 21 Steven was appointed Principal Timpanist with the Â鶹Éç Welsh Symphony Orchestra (now the Â鶹Éç National Orchestra of Wales) and is currently one of the longest serving and most experienced timpanists in the UK. As well as playing in many of the world's great concert halls, he has been involved with the orchestra's outreach activities and received a Professional Diploma Award in recognition of this work.

Steven teaches timpani at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and in 2005 was appointed Percussion Co-ordinator, managing a very talented and enthusiastic percussion department. He regularly gives masterclasses and in 2008 was invited to be the guest speaker at the National Association of Percussion Teachers' annual conference.

Steven is also a founder member of the jazz quintet Not Now in which he plays drums alongside other members of the Â鶹Éç National Ochestra of Wales.

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Ralph Salmins

Ralph SalminsRalph's signature groove has established him as the drummer of choice for producers and composers worldwide. Artists he's worked with in the studio include Madonna, Tori Amos, Paul McCartney, Alanis Morisette, Sheryl Crow, Celine Dion, John Williams, Elton John, Mike Oldfield, George Martin, Burt Bacharach, Elvis Costello, Gloria Estefan, Tom Jones, Michel Legrand and Diana Ross.

Ralph's love of jazz has led to work with some of the legends of the art form which include Mose Allison, Hank Crawford, Herb Ellis, Jon Faddis, Georgie Fame, Art Farmer, The Go Jazz All-Stars, Gene Harris, Jon Hendricks, Vincent Herring, Red Holloway, Cleo Laine, John Lewis, Joe Lovano, Marian McPartland, Charles McPherson, James Moody, Annie Ross, Gunter Schuller, Bobby Shew, Lew Tabackin, Martin Taylor, Bobby Watson, Jimmy Witherspoon and Joe Williams.

Ralph was an original member of Guy Barker's International Quintet with whom he recorded the Mercury Music Prize-nominated Into The Blue for Verve Records.

Ralph can be heard on Bjork's top ten hit It's Oh So Quiet and Robbie Williams' 7x Platinum Swing When You're Winning album and live DVD. Movie composers with whom he works regularly include Patrick Doyle, Hans Zimmer and Anne Dudley and he has worked on the soundtracks to over 100 movies, including Bridget Jones's Diary, Donnie Brasco, Evita, Goldeneye, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Harry Potter And The Prisoner of Askhaban, Tomorrow Never Dies, and BAFTA Award and Oscar-winning movies Gosford Park, Moulin Rouge, La Vie En Rose and Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King.

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