Valerie Welbanks
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Orchestral bookings (since joining Morgensterns in January 2009)
ORCHESTRAS
- Dionysus Ensemble
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Teaching experience
- Cello and chamber music teacher at St John's School, Leatherhead (2009 - )
- Private music teacher, ages 4 upwards (2001 - )
- Cello and ear-training teacher at the Catholic all-girls primary school Les Ursulines, Québec (2003-2006)
- Children's councillor at a summer music camp, Québec (2002)
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Biography
Canadian cellist Valerie Welbanks has recently completed the Master of Music in Performance course at the Royal Academy of Music in Philip Sheppard's class, graduating with distinction .
Valerie has given many chamber and solo recitals in various venues in Canada, the UK and South Africa. As a soloist, she has given several performances with the Orchestre symphonique de Québec and with the Sinfonia de Québec. In September 2008, Valerie appeared in the play La Suggia - Velvet and Steel, a production she initiated in collaboration with Bulgarian dramaturge Miryana Dimitrova.
Thanks to various scholarship awards, Valerie had the opportunity to work with master Janos Starker for three summers at the Toronto Summer Music Academy and at the Orford Arts Centre. A full scholarship allowed her to attend courses at the Banff Centre with her quartet.
Valerie's experience as a soloist incldues:
- United Kingdom: Union Chapel, Hinde Street Methodist Church, Church of St.Magnus the Martyr, Royal Academy of Music, St.Pancras Church
- South Africa: Chaplin Theatre (Port Elizabeth)
- Canada: Ottawa First Unitarian Church, Musée des beaux arts de Québec, St.Andrew's Church (Québec), Picton United Church
- CONCERTOS: Sinfonia de Québec (2005), Orchestra Symphonique de Québec (2004).
CHAMBER MUSIC:
- Marsyas Trio (Jan 2009 - present)
- Concert at Wilton's Music Hall
- Amici Consort (2008 - present)
- Intensky Quartet (2003-2005) (Banff Centre maximum scholarship)
- Cantebury String Quartet (1999-2000)
EVENTS:
- Receptions and televised ceremonies for the Québec Provincial Government of Canada
- Private receptions at the Wallace Collection, the Embassy of Norway in London, the National Art Gallery of Canada, the National Arts Centre of Canada
- Reception for the Princess Royal
- Numerous private functions and weddings
THEATRE:
- La Suggia: velvet & steel - producer, co-director and musician (2008)
- La Traviata stage manager for Vox Lirika Opera Company (Kings Theatre, Southsea, 2008)
- SHOWS: Kiss me Kate, City of Angels
- OPERAS: La clemenza di Tito, Idomeneo, Cosi Fan Tutte, Der Schauspieldirektor, Die Zauberflote (Mozart), Venus and Adonis (Blow), Dido & Aeneas (Purcell), Susannah (Floyd), Juex de Massacre (Demers), Die Fledermaus (Strauss), Romeo and Juliette (Gounod), L'elisir d'amour (Donizetti), Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky), L'incoronazione di Poppea (Monteverdi)
Orchestral Work
Orchestras: Dionysus Ensemble.
Valerie's orchestral work also includes
- Bloomsbury Opera
- West of England Philharmonic
- Dionysus Ensemble (2007-2009)
- City of Peterborough Symphony Orchestra
- Festival Chorus Orchestra
- Woking Choral Society (the Cantata Orchestra)
- Extra in St.Cecilia Orchestra (Amersham), Salisbury Symphony Orchestra, London Oratory School, Harrow School for Young Musicians and Cranford Summer School of Music.
- Section coach for Orchestre des Jeunes du Saguenay, Mouvement Vivaldi and Sinfonia de Québec (2004-2005)
TRAINING:
- Royal Academy of Music orchestra projects (2006-2008)
- Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra (acting principal cellist, 2007-2008)
- Orchestre du Conservatoire de musique de Québec (principal cellist, 2002-2006)
- Orchestre Symphonique de Québec side-by-sde scheme (2000-2006)
- Orchestre Réseau des Conservatoires de Musique du Québec (2004)
- National Youth Orchestra of Canada (2001)
- Ottawa Youth Orchestra (1999-2000)
- Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra side-by-side scheme
Education
Valerie's schooling took place at Conservatoire de musique de Québec - collegial music diploma (2001-2003), undergraduate degree (2003-2006) Valerie's graduate studies took place at Royal Academy of Music - Masters of Music in Performance, with distinction (2006-2008) Prizes and Awards
- Toronto Summer Music Academy full tuition scholarship (2006, 2007)
- Conservatoire de musique - Bourse du public scholarship (2001, 2003, 2004)
- The Banff Centre scholarship for chamber music (2003)
- The Orford Arts Centre scholarship (2003)
Teachers: Philip Sheppard, Adrian Bradbury, Lionel Handy, Leslie Snider, Julian Armour.
MASTERCLASSES: Robert Cohen, Colin Carr (both Royal Academy of Music), Janos Starker (Toronto Summer Music Academy, Orford Arts Centre), Roland Pidoux, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Etienne Péclard (all Conservatoire de Musique), Philippe Muller, Timothy Eddy (both Domaine Forget). Valerie's web links
www.valwelbanks.com
www.amiciconsort.com
www.marsyastrio.com
Valerie joined Morgensterns in January 2009 Valerie's web profile was last updated 20th Aug 2011 [an error occurred while processing this directive]
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