Orchestral bookings (since March 2007) ORCHESTRAS Apollo Chamber Orchestra Barn Sinfonietta Belmont Ensemble of London Birmingham Opera Company Brandenburg Sinfonia Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra British Concert Orchestra Chameleon Arts Orchestra London Children's Ballet Milton Keynes City Orchestra Orchestra Da Camera Thames Festival Orchestra Watford Philharmonic   The recital button is inactive   The Repertoire button is inactive.   The Review button is inactive.   The discography button is inactive.   The Outreach button is inactive. barry_c_6310_3.jpgceline_1.jpgceline_2.jpg           Teaching experience Celine teaches at St Helen's School in Northwood, St Vincent's Primary School, Marylebone High Street, where she also coaches the school Orchestra, and Primrose Hill Primary School. She has taught for Hounslow Music Service and between 1996 - 1998 she taught Cello, Piano and Musicianship at the Da Capo School of Music, London. Celine also teaches Cello and Piano privately at all levels.

Biography
In addition to her orchestral work, Celine is co-founder of the Botticelli Duo, who have given recitals and provided music for corporate functions throughout the UK. The Duo performed the World Premier of Shifting Sands by Pat Livingstone. Celine has also been the cellist with The Chameleon String Quartet since 1998 giving recitals and performing at corporate functions and weddings.

Celine is the principal cellist with the group Tonic Fold and The Cullinan Ensemble founded by composer/songwriter Shane Cullinan. Performance venues have included Bush Hall, St Pauls Covent Garden and Too Too Much, Soho.

Her studio work includes a recording for Pat Livingstone and Donald Wetherick's I Saw A Stranger for solo cello and chamber choir, and an album with Tonic Fold in 2007, an album with the German label Haldern Pop with her band Amphibic in 2003/2004 and an album with Billy Ocean in 2008.

Celine's theatre work includes performances with The Divine Comedy in Germany (2004), The Last Five Years at the Menier Chocolate Factory (2006) and at the Duchess Theatre (2009) and Carousel (dep).

Orchestral Work
Orchestras: Apollo Chamber Orchestra, Barn Sinfonietta, Belmont Ensemble of London, Birmingham Opera Company, Brandenburg Sinfonia, Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra, British Concert Orchestra, Chameleon Arts Orchestra, London Children's Ballet, Milton Keynes City Orchestra, Orchestra Da Camera, Thames Festival Orchestra, Watford Philharmonic.

Celine's orchestral work also includes The New English Concert Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland (appointed deputy member in 1993), playing principal cello with the Anton Bruckner Chamber Orchestra, Dartington Orchestra and the Britannica Chamber Symphony. She has worked as co-principal cello with the Canterbury Symphony Orchestra, Essex Symphony Orchestra, Concilium Chamber Orchestra, Imperial College Orchestra, and the British Youth Opera. Celine has also worked with the Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Galadriel Ensemble, The Bruch Ensemble and the Windsor and Eton Operatic Society.

Education
Celine was born in 1972. Celine's graduate studies took place at Trinity College, Dublin with a BA Mod (1989 - 1993). She also gained an LTCL (performers) Diploma from the Royal College of Music (1992 - 1995) and took a Postgraduate Performers Course, including the Peripatetic option, at Trinity College of Music, London (1995 - 1996).

Prizes and Awards
Arts Council of Ireland Award, 1994 - 1996.

Teachers: Professor Eileen Croxford (1992 - 1995), Louise Hopkins, Phillip Sheppard and Raphael Sommer.

Celine's web links
www.botticelliduo.co.uk

Celine joined Morgensterns in September 2004

Celine's web profile was last updated 12th Mar 2010