Conductor: Michael Rose OBE
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Conductor: Michael Rose OBE |
Michael Rose studied at the Royal Academy of Music with piano and violin as his instrumental studies. Following some years as a schoolmaster, he became a Music Advisor, firstly with Middlesex County Council, then with two London boroughs. There followed four years as Assistant-in charge of the BBC Training Orchestra in Bristol during which time he trained and conducted the orchestra regularly and broadcast frequently - twice in the 1970 Proms. In 1972 he moved to Bedfordshire as County Music Inspector until he took early retirement in 1990 in order to devote more time to freelance conducting, composing and examining. He has continued as Conductor of the County Youth Orchestra which has toured in Italy, France, Spain, Russia, Hungary, Cyprus and the Czech Republic. In 1990, Michael was awarded the OBE for his services to music. | |
Sinfonia Leader: Jan Kaznowski
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Jan Kaznowski was born in Norfolk, in a musical family. His father was a Polish refugee and a cellist. Jan started the violin at the age of eleven with Alexander Kirk, a peripatetic teacher who had been a founder member of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Jan later studied at the Royal Academy of Music with David Martin and Sidney Griller, and at the Warsaw Conservatoire with Zenon Bakowski and Tadeusz Gadzina. He studied anthropology at Queens’ College, Cambridge, before becoming a member of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the orchestras of English and Welsh National Opera. Jan is now head of the string faculty for Bedfordshire Music, teaching the violin and viola. He is also the director of the county chamber music course which involves a hundred or so children twice a year. He has led the Bedford Sinfonia for twenty years, and also leads a quartet which has a repertoire that includes quartets by all of the major 19th and 20th century composers. He regularly appears as a soloist, having performed concertos by Dvorak, Beethoven, Elgar, Mozart, Saint Saens, Mendelssohn and Bruch as well as Berlioz’s 'Harold in Italy' and the Brahms double concerto. He plays a violin made for him by a contemporary Czech maker, Tomas Pilar, in 2002, which is a copy of Fritz Kreisler’s Guarnerius ‘del Gesu’ violin made in 1733.
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The Bedfordshire Symphony Orchestra's guest Leader for the November 18, 2006 concert... Caroline Waters was born in Jersey and studied at Manchester’s Chethams school of music with Nannie Jamieson and Malcolm Layfield; she then went on to the Royal Northern College of Music where she studied with Richard Deakin and won a number of prizes for performance. Caroline gives solo recitals and plays regularly with her string quartet; she has also toured with a number of orchestras and ensembles throughout the UK and abroad. As well as playing for Bedford Sinfonia regularly, Caroline currently teaches classroom music at two local Bedfordshire schools. She is in constant demand - particularly by two wonderful children, a devoted and patient husband, and a cat!" |
Caroline Waters |
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