BARBARA LAW WOODWIND, BRASS, ENSEMBLES, FOLK

Barbara Law has enjoyed a busy career as a teacher and performer. As a student she studied the recorder, oboe and baroque oboe and has played with a number of early music ensembles, giving concerts here and abroad. She has given masterclasses in a variety of countries from here to Taiwan and is a founding member of ERTA - the European Recorder Players UK branch which promotes specialist recorder teaching in this country. She teaches recorder and chamber msuic at the Purcell School and at the Junior Royal Academy of Music.

GARY SIELING PIANO ELECTRONIC KEYBOARD PIPE ORGAN

Gary Sieling was born in Bedfordshire and educated at Dunstable Grammar School. He read for his BMus degree at the University of London, Goldsmith's College and while a student, played for the debut of the London Cantata choir with whom he is still associated. He studied organ with Peter Moorse, Nicholas Danby at the Royal College of Music, Dr Peter le Huray at St Catherine's College Cambridge, and Jane Parker-Smith. He was awarded FRCO in 1981 and MA in performance from Anglia Ruskin University in 1997, studying organ with Nicholas Kynaston at Caius College Cambridge. He is now embarking on a PhD in Harpsichord Performance.
Gary was organist of Dunstable Priory and then Assistant Master of Music at Peterborough Cathedral. During his time there he was Conductor of the Peterborough Philharmonic Society, Director of the St Peter's Singers, and Founder and Associate Conductor of the City of Peterborough Symphony Orchestra. He has also taught organ and piano at Oundle and Stamford Schools and played for the Cathedral Choir on two tours of America in addition to regular TV and radio broadcasts and recordings.
Gary is now Director of Music at Bromley Parish Church and Director of the Huntingdonshire Music School which has 400 students and 38 tutors. he also directs the chamber choir Finechants and works as a freelance organist, harpsichordist, conductor adjudicator and examiner for the Royal College of organists. Concert venues in this country include St Paul's and Canterbury Cathedrals, Kings College Cambridge and Westminster Abbey.
Gary likes to relax by messing about on narrowboats on English Waterways.

MARGARET LAMB STRINGS, ORCHESTRAS, CHAMBER ENSEMBLES, GUITARS

Margaret Lamb began her musical education in her home town of Exeter, where she learnt the violin with Colin Sauer. She was a member of teh National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, and was later awarded a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, where she studied the violin with David Martin, the viola with Max Gilbert and chamber music with Sidney Griller.
Margaret's first full-time position was with English National Opera at the London Coliseum where she subsequently became co-principle viola. After this she became a member of the Philharmonia Orchestra, recording and playing all over the world under conductors such as Sinopoli, Giulini, Barenboim, Maazel, Slatkin, Salonen, Ashkenazy, Gardiner, Haroncourt, Muti and Mackerras. She left the Philharmonia in 1995 to take up the post of Head of Strings at St Peter's School in York.
Since being in York, as well as teaching the violin and conducting student orchestras, Margaret has continued to play the viola, free-lancing with orchestras including the Philharmonia, the BBC Philharmonic, Manchester Camerata and Opera North, and also playing in the York String Quartet. She coaches young people in orchestras such as Yorchestra, IAPS Junior Strings, Musicale Holidays and the Yorkshire Youth Orchestra, and in 2001 she founded the york Young Soloists; a chamber orchestra based in York which provides concerto opportunities for local young musicians. Margaret sung the part of Filipyeyna in York Opera's 2007 production of Eugene Onegin and she is a regular competitor in the York Competitive Festival of Singing.

TREVOR HUGHES SINGING, VOCAL ENSEMBLES, CHOIRS

Trevor Hughes is a graduate of the Royal College of Music, winning the Colles prize, and an Associate of the Royal College of Organists, winning the Doris Wookey prize. He has accompanied recitals in the Purcell Room, the Wigmore Hall, and on BBC radio 3, as well as in many music clubs over the country, and for over ten years he contributed regularly to BBC Schools Radio music programme, as keyboard player, musical director and arranger. He has also made a number of educational recordings for Lindsay Music and Faber Music.
Equally at home in a wide range of musical styles, Trevor has conducted many musicals in the theatre, and he has also played keyboards in a number of West End shows. His freelance work as both accompanist and choral conductor has taken him on numerous trips to the USA as well as to Austria, Germany, France, Switzerland and Holland.
For some ten years until 2001 Trevor was Musical Director of the Stevenage Choral Society, whom he directed in many large-scale choral works, including a number of first performances. He took the choir on concert tours to Austria and Germany, and in 1966 he directed the choir on it's first tour of the USA. Trevor formed the Hemel Hempstead School Senior Girls' Choir in October 1997, which, in it's first year, gave a foyer concert at the Royal Festival Hall and sang at the Royal Albert Hall. He was also formerly Musical Director of Jubilate! for whom he has also written a number of jazz-inspired arrangements.
His long experience in the field of Church music continues in his present position as Director of Music at Holy Saviour Church in Hitchin. In 2003, he took the church choir to Barbados where it performed four concerts, and broadcast both on Caribbean radio and television. Later. In the same year he formed a second female church choir The Radcliffe singers, which sings a wide range of sacred and secular music. Both choirs have just produced their first CD.
as an organist, he has during the last few years, performed in fund-raising concerts for Barnado's at the Barbican Centre and also on teh organs of Ely and Canterbury cathedrals, Birmingham Symphony Hall and Leeds Town Hall and the Royal Albert Hall. His other work encompasses teaching piano, organ, keyboards and theory, and he has also adjudicated many music festivals at home and abroad.
When not involved with music, his other passions include classic vehicles!

NORMA REDFEARN SPEECH AND DRAMA

Norma Redfearn trained at the Northern College of Speech and Drama, and researched at Leicester University. She began her acting career in Rep', and then performed in professional tours all over the UK. As an examiner for Trinity College, London, she has examined students, lectured and performed on every continent, as well as setting and marking written examinations. Norma now examines extensively for LAMDA and has most recently visited Kenya, Tanzania and Singapore. She is proud to be an adjudicating member of the British and International Federation of Festivals, and she is adjudicating for the fourth time in November 2008 at the Sri Lankan Festival of Performing Arts.
Teaching has always been a priority and she has taught, lectured and been Head of Drama at a variety of schools and colleges. She continues to teach at her private studio and many of her former students are pursuing successful careers in theatre and television, and there are others who are qualified Drama Teachers.
Her greatest joy however, is equipping students with life skills, and the ability to take their place in society confidently. She believes the Festival Movement is a wonderful tool to help the confidence and development of all who enter and she looks forward to sharing with students of the Gorleston St Andrew's Festival in this celebration of their achievement.