Peter Bradley-Fulgoni – soloist in Brahms Piano Concerto No.2: March 23rd, 2003
Jan Lumley – soloist in Mozart’s Flute Concerto in D: November 16th, 2002
Rachael England – soloist in Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto: June 28th, 2003
Rachael studied piano from the age of 5 years old and was one of seven brothers, sisters and cousins all who played musical instruments – a family gift inherited from her grandmother, mother and aunt.
During her own schooldays learning violin with Michael Bernamont at Oswestry school, her sister was studying flute at Chethams School of Music, her brother at the Yehudi Menuhin School of Music and her cousin at Durham University. It was during this period Rachael played with Oswestry Sinfonia.
Rachael’s early performances were with the Powys Youth Orchestra, where she played the Kabelvsky Violin Concerto, and Beethoven’s Romance as soloist. At the age of 16, I successfully auditioned to enter the Royal Northern College of Music Junior School, and then studied under Simon Fisher at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music, and with Kyra
Awards and Scholarships have included a Sports & Arts Foundation award, a Welsh Arts Council award, the E.B. Wrightson Charitable Trust award, the Claudio Abbado Foundation award, and numerous others. Rachael has also been assisted by the Musicians’ Benevolent Fund to buy an instrument under the musical instrument loan fund scheme. She also plays with a violin bow kindly lent by the Benslow Musical Trust.
She has taken part in Masterclasses with Sylvia Rosenberg, the Alberni String Quartet, Charles Castleman, Ruggiero Allifranchini, Edward Schneider and the Guarneri string quartet.
In 1999, she was awarded the Cobb String Fellowship and the Orchestra Fellowship awards, together with a full music scholarship to Michigan State University. She studied with Dmitri Berlinsky, the youngest ever winner of the Paganini International Violin Competition. She has played with many orchestras in Michigan, including the Flint Symphony Orchestra and the Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestra. She has just graduated from Michigan with a Masters in Violin Performance, and has been accepted on full scholarship to take a Doctorate in Violin, but has decided to leave for a year to study with violinist and teacher, Yehonatan Berick.
Today, Rachael is a faculty member at the Flint Institute of Music, teaching violin and viola.
Humphreys during her postgraduate year. She won the Dunbar-Gerber Chamber Music Prize, and this also gave her the opportunity to perform the Mendelssohn concerto for the first time. Whilst in Scotland she widened her musical horizons by recording the album “The Hush” with pop group “Texas” for Mercury Records.
Soloist in Oswestry Sinfonia’s summer concert in 2001 performing Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3, this forthcoming concert at Wrekin College will be the second opportunity for the orchestra to play with Peter Bradley Fulgoni.
He is currently Senior Piano Professor at Shrewsbury School and studied initially at the Purcell School. He then moved on to study at the Royal College of Music with Kendall Taylor and Phyllis Sellick, and at the Royal Academy of Music with Alexander Kelly.
During this time he won numerous awards and prizes, including the Bromsgrove Festival International Young Musicians Platform (1980).
He was subsequently a successful competitor in the F. Neglia International Piano Competition (1982), and the Busoni International Piano Competition in 1985, both held in Italy. He successfully competed in the Maria Canals International Piano Competition, Spain, in both 1982 and 1983.
Funded by the Italian Institute of Culture, Peter spent time in Italy with Bruno Mezzena, (a pupil of Michelangeli). After winning the Peter Morrison prize, a competition organised under the auspices of the Incorporated Society of Musicians, he made his London debut at the Wigmore Hall. Many engagements followed, including a tour of Europe, giving recitals and concerto performances, as well as making numerous broadcasts for the BBC. He has toured extensively in Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Poland and Russia, where he gave recitals that were featured on Polish and German television.
In 1994 Peter visited the Peoples’ Republic of China, and has recently released a CD of Brahms piano music on the Altimira label.
Jan Lumley studied flute at the London College of Music with Edward Blakeman and Rainer Schulein, gaining a Licentiate Teaching Diploma and a performance award.
On leaving college Jan toured with an Arts Repertory Company before commencing a career as a peripatetic flute teacher, teaching at Bryanston and other private schools in Dorset. She continued to be involved in a wide range of ensemble groups including a wind quintet and orchestra before moving to the Isle of Wight.
Since moving to Shropshire in 1986, Jan has combined family life with gradually extending her teaching with Shropshire Music Services and in the private sector, and has enjoyed twelve `musically stimulating` years with Oswestry Sinfonia. She plays regularly for local operatic societies and occasional recitals.
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