Adriene enjoyed and enjoys the journey, through different genres, to improve technique, musicality, different teaching and performing skills, from, and with grateful thanks to all her past teachers. These include the Lancashire Chorley School Teachers Sybll Banks at Duke Street Primary School and the enthusiastic energetic Kenneth Hytch at Chorley Southlands Secondary School and those individual lessons teachers both privately and at Music Colleges. Her past teachers include:
Piano Teachers: Mrs Ennis of Bolton Road, Chorley, Lancashire, Peggy Stanway Band Singer of Chorley, Enid Belshaw of Wigan and Staff member of Padgate Teachers Training College, Warrington, Jacqueline Gracey Williamson at Mabel Fletcher College Liverpool with whom she achieved ABRSM Grade 8 piano distinction. Alfred Kitchen at Trinity College of Music, London. A great pianist he was ex-Intelligence Service. His wife wrote plays and invited Adriene and Jane Capper to act in their play on a game of chess. Adriene asked a student hostel lady straight over from Ireland to record all her lines so she could copy a good Irish accent,
Flute Teachers: Frank Vose of Leyland who introduced Adriene to play in Chorley Orchestra, Jane Rowland of Blackburn School of Music, whilst at Mabel Fletcher College Liverpool with Patricia Morris flautist – Liverpool Philharmonic & piccolo player – BBC Symphony Orchestra, Lowry Sanders, at Trinity College with Lowry Sanders of the London Symphony Orchestra, Roger Rostron & Atarah Ben Tovim – Doyle Carte Opera Company & Liverpool Philharmonic players whilst on Orchestral Courses with LSSO – Lancashire Schools Symphony Orchestra under Conductor Malcolm Doley.
Singing Teachers: First lessons, incredibly late at 19 yrs, were enjoyed with Jean Mitchell of Liverpool – Mabel Fletcher College, Margaret Heylings of Chorley – a BBC Northern Singer, James Gaddarn & Elizabeth Hawes at London Trinity College of Music, Angela and John Noble of London Friday Night is Music Night Stars, Operetta and Oratorio – Privately – Trinity College of Music, Mr Ellis Keeler of London – Chairman of the Society of English Speakers & Singers – Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Trinity College Morag Noble – London, Marion Studholme – London, Esther Salomon, London, Marylin Hill Smith – Operetta , London, Trinity College Ilsa Wolf – Lieder specialist – London, Trinity College and Royal Opera House Italian Coach Tina Ruta, Roxanne Houston – for Recital Studies – London, Dame Elly Ameling of Holland for Lieder and Recital Study, Professor Fischer of Liszt Academy, Weimar, Germany, Boldiszar Keonch Budapest Liszt Academy of Music for CD preparation, Tom Swift Royal Opera House Tenor for technique study, London, & ROH Charles Hamilton Acting Coach for Beethoven’s Fidelio – Morley College Opera, London.
Singing Coaches: Robert Wilson – Trinity College of Music London, Paul Hamburger, London, Iain Ledingham of Royal Academy of Music & Glyndebourne Opera repetiteur, (nb Alexandra Trio page), Gary Peacock of Amersham, John Wilson and Brain Wilson of Manchester Royal Northern College of Music, Andrew Black of Cambridge. Rita …….& ……… in Budapest, Hungary.
Singing Master Class Participation with: Morag Noble of Trinity College of Music and with Mr Ellis Keeler of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama Teacher.
Singing Courses & Master Classes attended: Summer Music course in Hungary, Jazz Singing course in Suffolk, AOTOS – Association of Teachers of Singing Days & W/E courses in London and Warwickshire, attending 14 fascinating days of Welsh National Opera colleague Baritone Philip Rock’s coaching with Signor Rucci on Bel Canto Singing, opposite the Rome Opera House, Italy. As a very young man Signor Rucci had coached/ accompanied the great Maria Callas. her Master Classes are well worth watching.
Studying for a Singing Recording: studies with the late Professor Boldiszar Koench, an interesting and wonderful opportunity studio recording some favourite pieces, including Casta Diva from the opera Norma by Bellini, both singing and playing the flute introduction with the 55 strong Wien Orchestra and the 80 strong Budapest Radio Choir. It was fascinating having lessons with Boldiszar, to the faint strains from the next room where the choir was being coached by the great Latin Tenor Jose Cura, and hearing the great talent in various Budapest student and other concerts. A health blip meant Adriene was not able to achieve the standard she was aiming for, but it was an amazing experience.
Violin Lessons with: Gregory Ellis ex leader of RTE Vanbrugh String Quartet & RAM Quartet Coach.
Piano Accordion Teacher: Sallie Walrond, International Horse Carriage Driving Instructor, Adjudicator, at times with HRH Prince Philip RIP, & author of 13 books, including her fascinating autobiography “Trot On”. Sallie, as piano accordionist for many years, has given Charity Concerts to raise funds for Carriage Driving for the Disabled. Sallie, also a grade 7 pianist from age 15yrs, kindly studied the ABRSM music scales, sight reading and pieces to give Adriene’s students very useful http://www.abrsm.org mock exams.
Celtic Harp Lesson: enjoyed with Anne Chorley of http://www.angelsdelightmusic.co.uk and on Anne’s recommendation, later with class tutors at EIHF – Edinburgh International Harp Festival, held annually near Easter time. This was a wonderfully entertaining and rewarding musical holiday. There is no need to have or bring your own harp, as they can be hired there.
ACCOMPANISTS for Recitals, Concerts & Weddings include:
Guitarists Simon James & Melanie Schulze.
Pianists: Enid Belshaw, Margaret Heylings, Stephen Dinwoodie pianist for a flute recital in Liverpool Cathedral, Amanda Paley, Catherine Parnell-Long, Peter Bridges – accompanist for Trinity Music College French Song Competition – later Pianist and Conductor for Garden Opera Company, Julian Woods, Colin Bucchanan, Amanda Paley, Anne Ayre, Isobel Richards, Dr Ian Flowers, Lucinda Mackworth Young, Michelle Morton, Mohammad Othman Sidiq, David Tibbits, Nadia Abbushi, Adrian Warren, Graeme Hopson, Julian Larkin ABRSM Examiner, Courtney Kenny & Welsh National Opera Baritone Philip Rock, Martin Clark, Rosemary Sarjeant, Paul Beechey, Patrick Friend, Dr Lesley Moorehouse, Ian Ledingham, Professor John Wilson and violinist Gregory Ellis in our Alexandra Trio Concerts, joined for one recital by BBC Radio 3 Narrator Malcolm Ruthven.
Organist Accompanist: Peter Barraclough – in Malta St Paul’s Cathedral and evening reception at the Ambassadors Home there.
Celtic Harpist: Anne Chorley in our regular monthly concerts and weddings http://www.angelsdelightmusic.co.uk
Adriene Ellis ARCM Singing Flute Piano Violin Lessons Suffolk Teacher 