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Upcoming engagements:
​Wednesday 18th April 2018 - 19:30
Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro

St. John's Church, Waterloo, SE1 8TY
London Incidental Orchestra Concert

Conducted by Alexander Conway
Saturday 21st April 2018 - 19:30
Stravinsky, Monumentum
​Tchaikovsky, Violin Concerto
​Brahms, Symphony No. 4

St. John's Church, Waterloo, SE1 8TY
Philharmonia Britannica Concert
Conducted by Peter Fender
 Sunday 29th April 2018 - 19:00
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Wagner, excerpts of Die Walkure

St John's Church, Waterloo, SEI 8TY
New Palace Opera Concert
Conducted by Jonathan Finney
Penny James is a violinist based in Glasgow & London. She studied violin with John Crawford at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and graduated in 2018. In 2016 she went on an Erasmus Exchange to Finland where she studied with Reijo Tunkkari and Kreeta-Maria Kentala, and has since studied with Clare Thompson and Joshua Fisher.

Penny is a versatile musician with many interests and enjoys a portfolio career which includes orchestral playing, chamber music and folk music. She is also a dedicated and passionate teacher who offers lessons in violin, piano, cello and theory of music for all levels, beginner to advanced.

Penny currently leads the London City Philharmonic and is deputy leader of the Ernest Read Symphony Orchestra. She freelances in and around London and has played with many ensembles including the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra in Finland, the London Euphonia Orchestra, the London Incidental Orchestra, the Philharmonia Britannica and GoodenSemble. She has played under the batons of Sakari Oramo, Roy Goodman, Gerry Cornelius and Diego Masson to name but a few. 

Penny is also a violin tutor at the Hackney Youth Orchestra Trust and has also worked with organisations including Animate Orchestra, Stretto Music, Greenwich Music Hub, Music Maestros, The Future Music Group, Trinity Laban's Teenies Group and Boppin' Bunnies music classes for babies and toddlers.

Penny has taken part in a number of masterclasses and courses including:
  • Chamber masterclass with Yuri Zhislin in Finland.
  • Adam Sutherland Folk Fiddle course in Glasgow.
  • Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas Folk Fiddle Course in Skye.
  • Oxford Cello School, which included masterclasses with Lionel Handy and Alexander Boyarsky.
  • English Schools Orchestra.
  • ProCorda.

In between her musical activities, Penny also enjoys long country walks, crafts of any kind and caring for her ever growing plant collection!
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Click here to book me for an engagement or to enquire about having lessons.

London Euphonia Orchestra Concert Tonight!

10/3/2018

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Really looking forward to playing Brahms 1 tonight (one of my favourite symphonies) with the London Euphonia Orchestra!

We'll also be indulging in some of Pucinni's most glorious and famous works!

Please come along and support our concert at St Andrew's Church in Holborn, 7:30pm - it will be a night of beautiful music!
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