She began playing the cello with school lessons aged 12, moving to lessons with Glasgow cellist Alice Allen before joining the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) Juniors in 2017, where her teacher is Alison Wells.Īnnie has been accepted into National Youth Orchestra of GB (NYO) for the 2020 season, which will tour England playing Shostakovich’s 11 th Symphony in January. So well done Vivienne - keep up the truly excellent work.Ĭellist Annie Walton is 16 years old and attends Shawlands Academy in the South Side of Glasgow, where she is studying for Highers. Thank you for sharing your compositions with us there will be a link to them here very shortly so that readers can listen to them. It is lovely that you are inspired by your Benslow instrument. Your passion for music is so evident Vivienne, and the progress you are making shows just how hard you are working and how committed you are to improving. I do sometimes wonder if we'd taken home the wrong baby a decade ago!Ī keen composer, Vivienne has very kindly sent us her two most accomplished compositions, one written last term for a group of classmates and a current piece - still a work in progress - is intended for her school orchestra. Our family is all very proud of her, not least because we're hardly musical and pretty much tone deaf. This is Vivienne's first time trying out for the NCO, and both she and I believe that she couldn't have done it without her Benslow violin and bow. "A BIG THANKYOU to Benslow MusicILS for gifting Vivienne this wonderful opportunity to make beautiful music with a high quality violin and bow. In addition, since September, she has passed her Grade 5 violin with Distinction, her Grade 5 Piano, grade 5 Theory and Grade 3 singing! She also plays in her local Intermediate Orchestra and will be taking part in the Milton Keynes Music Festival playing solo in the Bach D Minor Double Concerto next term. What fantastic achievements these two young people have made - the Instrument Loan Scheme is very proud that you are our Christmas 'Star Borrowers'.ġ0 year old violinist Vivienne has just heard that she has been successful in winning a place in the National Children's Orchestra of GB Under 10's. Both are working exceedingly hard and their successes are so well deserved.
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