Services Offered
- Music for Special Occasions (Solo Cello) inc. weddings, functions, formal concerts/recitals, church services & corporate receptions. Cello & Guitar Duo and Cello & Piano are also available
- Solo, Chamber & Orchestra Performance
- Private Cello Instruction / Tuition
- Chamber Group Coaching
- Dalcroze Eurhythmics (Group music classes to support instrumental playing)
Performance:
Educational:
Future Performances
- Cello and Piano (with Jason Ellis) - works by Faure, Beethoven and Gershwin. Venue: Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton 24th August 2011 at 12:30
- Cello and Piano (with Jason Ellis) - works by Beethoven, Saint-Saens and Faure. Venue: Bury Parish Church, Bury 21st October 2011 12:30
- Unaccompanied Cello Recital - program to be confirmed. Venue: Sheffield Cathedral, 27th January 2012 at 13:00
Other Venues
- UK Premier Performance of "Pieces of Memory" for Solo Cello by Robin Kiel, MBE, FRSA. Works by J.S. Bach also to be included. Venue: Blackburn Cathedral, Lancs (October 2010)
What's Cooking
- The Essentials of Cello Technique by Melanie Jones (Book/guide currently being written)
- Blues Tunes for Cello Ensembles, arranged by Melanie Jones
- Children's Book with an emphasis on Music (currently being written)
Recent Events
- Academy String Ensemble directed by Martin Cropper (St. Mark's Church, Sheffield)
- Sonata No. 1 for Two Cellos - M. Boifmortier, with a cello pupil (The Music Academy)
- Chopin Day; Performance of Chopin's Sonata Op. 65 with Valentina Kalashnik, pianist (The Music Academy)
- Piano Trio No. 2 - Shostakovich, with Academy pupils (The Music Academy)
- Piano Trio by Martin Thiselton (UK Premiere) - dedicated to the Academy Trio (The Music Academy)
- Suite No. 1 - J.S. Bach. Memorial Concert for Lawrance Granger, cellist and member of the San Francisco Symphony, Venue: California State University East Bay, USA. (October 2009)
- "Don Giovanni" - Mozart, Stabat Mater - Pergolesi, "The Four Seasons" - Vivaldi and "Exultate Jubilate" - Mozart, Venue: Tuscia Opera Festival, Viterbo, Italy (July - August 2009)
- String Quartet in B Flat, Op. 18 - Beethoven. Venue: Sheffield Cathedral (June 2009)
- Ex Libro Somnorium (From the Book of Dreams) for Guitar and String Trio - Robin Kiel, MBE, FRSA. UK Premier Performance, commissioned and dedicated to the Sheffield Music Academy. Venue: Sheffield Cathedral (June 2009 )