Programme -  12 November 2010

Jennie-Lee Keetley (oboe) was a post graduate scholarship student at the Royal College of Music, graduating in 2004 with distinction. There her studies were supported by awards from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and a prestigious Ian Flemming award from the Musicians Benevolent Fund. Prior to this, her undergraduate studies took place at the Birmingham Conservatoire, from which she gained a first class honours degree and was also the recipient of several major music prizes. As a past member of the World Youth Orchestra and the European Union Youth Orchestra she has toured to Europe, Israel, China and Russia. Jennie-Lee was co-principal oboe of the Southbank Sinfonia during 2006 with whom she performed the Vaughan Williams oboe concerto. Jennie-Lee currently has an active performing career, working with some of the UK's foremost orchestras and ensembles and has keen interests in chamber music and music outreach and education. Last year Jennie-Lee recorded Graham Whettam's oboe quartet with the Carducci Quartet that was recently released to critical acclaim. As a past recipient of the Countess of Munster Recital scheme she has given numerous recitals and concerto performances across the country.

Richard Russell (clarinet) is from Linlithgow, Scotland. After graduating with first class honours and the prestigious PPRNCM recital diploma from the Royal Northern College of Music he was a postgraduate scholar at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, supported by awards from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and Sir James Caird Travelling Scholarship. Following a further year at the GSMD as Woodwind Fellow, Richard was co-principal clarinet with Southbank Sinfonia, the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s “Future Firsts” clarinettist and a Recommended Artist of Making Music. Richard has performed chamber music at the Wigmore Hall, LSO St Luke’s, Purcell Room, BBC Proms Composer Portraits and the Paxos, Koster, WindrushValley and Chelsea Schubert Festivals.

He is a founding member of the chamber music ensemble Liquid Architecture, winners of awards from the Tunnell Trust and the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund (Ensemble Award). The group have performed all over the UK and have been supported in commissioning and promoting new music by the PRS Foundation and the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust. He also plays with various chamber music groups such as Canteloube Woodwind Trio, Octanphonie and others.

Richard has appeared as concerto soloist with Koster Festival Orchestra (Sweden), Southampton University Wind Orchestra, James Allen’s Community Orchestra, Lewes Concert Orchestra, Southbank Sinfonia and Oadby & Wigston Civic Orchestra. He has performed with many of the U.K.’s leading orchestras, most recently Scottish Chamber Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra and Northern Sinfonia.

Molly Neilson (bassoon) began her musical life as an oboist, but at the age of 19 inexplicably swapped her oboe for an instrument with thirteen thumb keys. Since then full scholarships enabled her to earn a BMus from the Eastman School of Music (which included an exchange at Royal Academy of Music where she won the Florence Woodbridge Bassoon Prize), a PgDip in Orchestral Performance from the Royal College of Music studying with Sarah Burnett, and an MMus from Guildhall, where she studied with Meyrick Alexander and Gordon Laing.

Molly is a founder member of two wind quintets, The Vermillion Ensemble, who record regularly for BBC 1, and Levanter Winds, who have given recitals and workshops through Live Music Now. As a freelance orchestral bassoonist Molly has worked with the London Mozart Players, LPO, Endymion Emsemble, Kokoro, New Professionals, and Opera East, and she plays principal bassoon for St. Paul’s Sinfonia, the Bergamo Ensemble, and the Bombay Chamber Orchestra. Her recent solo performances include Andriessen’s Concertino with Kaleidoscope Winds and Weber’s bassoon concerto with St. Paul’s Sinfonia. Molly is also very proud to be a member of rock/folk/alternative band Paris Motel.