Grace Duthie | Flute Tutor & Triorca PAstoral Staff |
Grace is an experienced flautist and pedagogue. Growing up in Norfolk, Grace began playing the flute at aged 8 and was an active member of various Norfolk Music Service ensembles as well as Britten Sinfonia Academy. At 18, Grace moved to Birmingham to study at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire under the tutelage of Judith Hall, obtaining a first-class honours degree. She also won the prestigious Woodwind Prize, performing Prokofiev’s Flute Sonata. During her training, Grace undertook masterclasses and side by side schemes with Sir and Lady Galway, Marie-Christine Zupancic and Birmingham Royal Ballet to name a few! She was a member of the CBSO Youth Orchestra, where she was conducted by several notable conductors and played under the baton of Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Jac van Steen, Cristian Mācelaru and Michael Seal.
Musical highlights include performing Shostakovich’s 7 th Symphony (Leningrad), Mahler 6 th Symphony, Bartok’s Miraculous Mandarin and the Rite of Spring in Symphony Hall, Birmingham. During her time in Birmingham, she also participated in musical outreach schemes and conducted research into the effect of music lessons on the social and emotional wellbeing of primary school aged children. Grace currently balances working as a primary school teacher alongside private flute tuition and teaching at Guildhall Young Artists, Norwich. She is passionate about making music accessible for all: as music lead at her primary school, she is rapidly developing a wide range of musical opportunities for the children and has experienced how a school can be quickly transformed from one with little musical opportunities to a school where everyone wants to be involved in music making! As a Triorca alumni, Grace toured to Serbia and Germany, and performed Saffron Hall as part of the UK course. Having experienced how Triorca can bring people of different nationalities together, Grace is extremely excited to tutor on this year’s course. |
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She was born in Tuzla in 1973, where she attended and graduated from musical school. As a young student, she took part in many regional and state competitions, where she won a lot of significant prizes. After attending summer course at Academy of arts in Novi Sad, and invited by her future professor, she began flute studies in 1990, at the age of seventeen.
During her studies, she attended numerous master classes, having opportunity to learn from teachers such as Renate Greiss Armin, Peter Lucas Graf, Janos Balint and others, she was a guest at annual Hungarian and Slovenian flute societies gatherings etc. Very early, at the age of 19, she started working at Music school ’Isidor Bajić’ in Novi Sad. As the recognitions of her pedagogical results came the repeated invitations for many juries (State competition, International competition in Valjevo, Lazarevac, Belgrade, Anton Eberst Novi Sad). She was twice rewarded as the most successful teacher: in Balassagyarmat in 1995, Hungary and Femus competition in Subotica, in 2016. The association af music and ballet schools in Serbia awarded her for long term success in teaching in 2015. From 2006 to 2015, she was the president of Vojvodina flute section. During this period, and after, she organized six seminars, named ’Open door weekend’, two of which were accredited from Ministry of education. At a time, she is a flute teacher in Isidor Bajić Music School, Head of wind section in her school, Coordinator for international orchestra project Triorca and from 2018 Assistant Principal, part time. She also works for local organization Družiciranje, organizing and teaching during summer courses. |
Jasna Markovic Vujanovic
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Leila Hooton |
Principal Flute & UK TRIORCA Ambassador
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A former Trioca member, Leila Hooton is a freelance flautist/piccolo player, and teacher. She currently lives in London where she is studying, as the Fishmonger’s Company Beckwith Scholar, for her Masters in Instrumental Performance at The Royal College of Music. She is currently learning with Gitte Marcusson, Sue Thomas, Emer McDonough and Diomedes Demetriades. She is grateful to be financially supported by Help Musicians UK and the Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust.
Alongside her studies, Leila teaches flute and piano privately, has performed with both The Heart of England Philharmonic and The Sinfonia Stellaris and enjoys working in arts admin. She worked as the SoundLab Coordinator for the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire's Learning and Participation Department's outreach project SoundLab for the academic year 2021 - 2022. Leila is currently the Operations and Pastoral Assistant at Guildhall Young Artist Norwich and is delighted to be an ambassador for Triorca 2024. |
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Rachel is a professional clarinettist and woodwind specialist. After completing sixth form at Chetham's School of Music, she trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, winning the Worshipful Company of Musicians' Medal and the Rosebowl prize as runner up in the prestigious Gold Medal
Concerto competition. She was principal clarinet of the Northern Ballet Theatre Orchestra for several years before pursuing a freelance career, playing with all the major London orchestras. Rachel has also performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician. She has appeared live on Radio 3 with the London Symphony Orchestra and on Classic FM as a soloist with Roderick Williams and Susie Allan. Rachel has always enjoyed combining teaching with performing, aiming to pass on her love and enthusiasm for all types of music and art forms. She has coached many wind ensembles and youth orchestra sections, including Junior Guildhall, London Schools Symphony Orchestra and Norfolk County Youth Orchestra. Rachel teaches at Norwich School, Langley School and GYA Norwich. She is principal clarinet in the Academy of St Thomas Orchestra, Norwich and the chamber ensemble, Music Sans Frontieres. |
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Hugh Woolley
Bassoon
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Hugh discovered music later in life. Born in London and growing up in rural Lincolnshire, he began playing the bassoon only two years before enrolling at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire from which he graduated in 2018 with a First Class degree. From 2018 he attended the Royal Academy of Music where he studied with Fraser Gordon, Jonathan Davies and John Orford. Since graduating in 2020 he has been building a varied career as a freelance bassoonist and contrabassoonist.
He plays regularly with Opera North, Manchester Camerata, Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Fantasia Orchestra and the Bath Festival Orchestra. He has recently returned from a tour of The Magic of Disney with the Novello orchestra, playing in ten concert halls across the United Kingdom. Hugh has a passion for opera and - aside from his work with Opera North - plays with numerous opera companies including Hampstead Garden Opera, Wild Arts Opera, West Green House and Longhope. In 2021 Hugh co-founded the Meliora Collective, a flexible instrumental ensemble who are rapidly gaining attention and acclaim for their dynamic, creative and ambitious programming. Meliora Collective perform primarily – though not exclusively - as a dectet formed of five wind players alongside a string quintet. Meliora Collective were recently described in the Guardian as playing with a ‘welcoming exuberance’ and as ‘truly impressive’. Hugh is yet to win the pub quiz in his local but continues in hope! |
