Staff A-Z

Having also studied dance vocationally at London Studio Centre, Leanne still enjoys participating in dance and now applies dance science techniques when in class and also when teaching young students. As an active member of the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science, Leanne has previously volunteered as part of their Student Committee and is now currently a member of their Promotions Committee.  Leanne is also a qualified Group Exercise to Music instructor and hopes to incorporate this within her work in Dance Science in the future.

Since graduating Leanne has worked as a Graduate Intern in both the Dance Science and Health department at Trinity Laban and now also works as a Lecturer on the BSc Dance Science programme as Module Leader of Researching Dance Science. Leanne also teaches Dance Science to the first year students studying at Bird College. Leanne is also Communications Coordinator for The Bridge Dance Project which is a cooperative endeavour between leaders in the dance medicine and science field, and in the competition / commercial dance field.

Stephen is a member of Endymion Ensemble, The Fibonacci Sequence and Capricorn. He has taken part in many critically acclaimed recordings, including Mozart’s entire output for wind ensemble with Chamber Orchestra of Europe and his second recording of the Brahms Horn Trio, with the Florestan Trio, released by Hyperion to rave reviews, and a ‘Gramophone’ award nomination.

Initially developing dance and theatre school provision, Victoria moved swiftly into further education and apprenticeships in performing arts and sport, with programmes receiving external recognition such as ‘Outstanding’ judgements (Adult Leaning Inspectorate), Beacon status for teaching and learning, and professional industry acknowledgement. This led to partnerships with higher education providers, and the development of the musical theatre provision at Trinity Laban.

As a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Trinity Laban Senior Teaching Fellow, Victoria is committed to access and participation, and the development of teaching and learning environments that support progression and achievement. Most recently, she has utilised her MSc in psychology to research the area of mental health and wellbeing in tertiary musical theatre education settings, identifying how programmes and interventions can be established to support the development of good mental health in educational setting, and when transitioning into employment.

Victoria believes that the student is the absolute centre of the learning journey, and that it is important to support personal development beyond the core curriculum outcomes, fostering the unique individual and personal identity within the learning community.

Victoria is a Trustee for a growing Multi Academy Trust in Kent and External Examiner for other Musical Theatre programmes across the UK .

Creative Outputs

Performance credits include: Aladdin, Cinderella and Humpty Dumpty (Millfield Theatre), A Chorus Line (MYT), Fran in A Christmas Carol (Terry Hawes Productions), Aida, MTV, Dream Team (Hewland International), 100 Years of Cinema (Mermaid Theatre), Lead vocalist and dancer for various cabarets.

Choreography Credits include: Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Bugsy Malone, Oklahoma, Little Shop of Horrors, Dick Whittington, Wizard of Oz, Oliver, Corporate Events, Cabarets and College Showcases.

Anita Strevens’ career is a varied mix of orchestral, chamber music and solo performance, teaching, workshop leading and adjudicating. She has played with most of the London chamber orchestras – City of London Sinfonia, London Mozart Players, Orchestra of St Johns, Primavera – and is a member of Accordare Quartet and Trio Vita. Recent solo performances have included Haydn’s C major Cello Concerto and all six Bach Unaccompanied Cello Suites in JAM on the Marsh Festival and in Garway Bach Festival. She teaches cello and Dalcroze Eurhythmics at Junior Trinity and Sevenoaks School and is a visiting lecturer at Birmingham Conservatoire, teaching pedagogy.

For Pro Corda she directs Pro Corda West and coaches on the mainstream and Special Educational Needs courses as well as heading the programmes for Young Music Makers. She leads Dalcroze Eurhythmics workshops for educational organisations, orchestras and local authorities.

She has had education articles published in Primary Music Today, NAME, Dalcroze Society Journal and Music Teacher magazine.

She plays on a cello by Henry Lockey Hill and a bow by Vigneron.

As a council member of MusicHE, Aleks has been involved in recent cross-institutional campaigns to safeguard the future of music at UK conservatoires and universities.  He is a QAA performing arts subject specialist assessor. He has written several articles and a book chapter on blended learning and critical pedagogy and is an external specialist at BIMM.  

As a performer, Aleks specialises in performing music of the 20th and 21st Centuries and has released several albums of contemporary repertoire on the Prima Facie record label, including the Piano Concerto by Daryl Runswick, Inner Landscapes (Douglas Finch), A Land so Luminous (Kenneth Hesketh), and the album Aztec Dances with the recorder player Jill Kemp. He has recorded for Nimbus with the flautist Wissam Boustany, and given premieres of works by Frederic Rzewski, Dai Fujikura, Haris Kittos, Edward Gregson, Nicola LeFanu, Sam Hayden and David Bedford, among others.   

As pianist in the ensemble Gemini, he has recorded three albums with Métier, including works by Jonathan Harvey, Sadie Harrison, Huw Watkins, Philip Grange, and the first recording of Mandala 3 by David Lumsdaine. As well as Gemini, Aleks works with Lontano, rarescale and the Continuum Ensemble.  He has performed in more than forty countries over six continents, on BBC Radio 3, Classic FM, Channel 4, and Colombian and Lebanese television.    

Eunice is a musician-researcher dedicated to advancing inclusion within Higher Music Education (HME). Her doctoral research at UCL has shed light on the underrepresentation of autistic musicians and advocating for their voices within HME. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, serves as a Lecturer in Music Education at Trinity Laban and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Nottingham’s Music Department. Additionally, she works as a Specialist one-to-one Study Skills and Strategy Support for autistic university students and those with ADHD.

As a pianist and keyboardist, Eunice has performed on television, radio, and at festivals across various cities including Hong Kong, Kaohsiung, London, Taipei, and Vladivostok. She also teaches piano through a Local Education Authority Music Service and has worked in the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP), ABRSM and Trinity Rock & Pop for over a decade. Beyond performing and teaching, Eunice is actively involved in UCL’s International Music Education Research Centre (iMerc), where she fosters research community building and knowledge exchange.

As a freelance teacher Christine has taught Rambert Dance Company, NDT 2, Scapino Dance Company, Charleroi Dance Company, Jonathan Burrows Group, AMP, and Scottish Dance Theatre. Christine also teaches on the International Dance Course for professional dancers and choreographers. She teaches Evening classes at the Place in London.

After leaving college, Neil freelanced with a variety of London orchestras, as well as Welsh Opera, English Opera Group, Royal Ballet, BBC Northern, and Scottish Theatre Ballet. After a while he settled with the New Philharmonia Orchestra (later known as the Philharmonia Orchestra) for symphonic work and Philomusica of London for chamber orchestra playing, while always playing as much chamber music as possible (including the Sunday afternoon broadcasts in the early days of Capital Radio).

Between 1976 and 1979, Neil held the Principal Bass chair of the BBC Welsh Symphony, after which he returned to London and the Philharmonia.  In the early 80s he was a founder-member of London Musici (with whom he occasionally performed Bottesini’s Gran Duo Concertante), and the short-lived London Double Bass Ensemble, the brainchild of the Philharmonia’s Principal Bass at the time, Gerry Drucker. Gerry’s sheer enthusiasm netted prestigious performances for this ensemble at Wigmore Hall, on live television and radio, and even accompanying a TV play by Mike Leigh (music by Carl Davis), as well as lots of fun but terrifying concerts around the UK.

During the late 80s, Neil was a frequent traveller with Chris Warren-Green’s London Chamber Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra and London Sinfonietta, and also began teaching at the Royal College of Music. He succeeded Gerry as Principal Bass of the Philharmonia in 1992, and later published his transcription for bass of Ševčík’s Op. 2 School of Bowing Technique.

Whilst subsequently teaching on the Pimlico Special Music Course, Neil published Beginning Scales on the Double Bass and Essentials of Ševčík, and currently holds teaching posts at both the Purcell School and Trinity Laban, as well as being Visiting Professor to the Razumovsky Academy. He regularly plays chamber music with the Soloists of the Philharmonia and the Razumovsky Ensemble.

Neil has always considered that the greatest music for bass begins and ends with the symphony orchestra, but also loves playing everything else in between!

Keen to pass on her wealth of knowledge and orchestral experience, Clare is regularly invited to tutor in all of the London music colleges and is generally sought after as teacher and audition mentor by many young musicians embarking on their careers. She also has a burgeoning private studio in North London, teaching across the syllabuses. Her students range from age 7-18 with notable examination and conservatoire entrance successes.

Clare was a prize-winning student at the Royal Academy of Music where she studied with Carmel Kaine. Scholarships then enabled her to complete her postgraduate studies in Germany with Wolfgang Marschner. On her return, she was soon appointed to the Principal 2nd chair of the English Chamber Orchestra, performing with such artists as Barenboim and Zukerman. She performed with the English Chamber Orchestra as a soloist both in the concert hall and recording studio. In that time, some ten years, she also appeared as guest leader with the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Ulster Orchestra, London Mozart Players, Thames Chamber Orchestra and principal positions with the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic and BBC Symphony Orchestra amongst others.

She has led the Philharmonia at the Royal Festival Hall, performed with many of the world’s great conductors, Muti, Maazel, Salonen and Ashkenazy to name but a few, and is now regularly invited to lead and co-lead British orchestras including most recently, working extensively as Co-Leader of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with Andris Nelsons.

Clare has also enjoyed an active chamber music career, performing, recording and broadcasting with such ensembles as Prometheus, Cirrus and Serenata. She has played chamber music with Rostropovich and is a featured soloist on a CD of Vivaldi violin concertos with Pinchas Zukerman. She also continues to work in the studio recording film scores, including The Hunger Games, Harry Potter and The Hobbit.

Clare was recently made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) in recognition of her services to music.

She plays on a fine Joseph Gagliano violin, circa 1770.

Clare Thompson studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Carmel Kaine where she won numerous prizes for solo and string quartet playing. Various scholarships, including the Countess of Munster Trust enabled her to continue her studies with Wolfgang Marschner in Freiburg, Germany, where she graduated with the final diploma.

At the age of sixteen, Martino won the Liszt Scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, graduating with the highest honours, after which he completed his studies in Vienna. He later worked closely with Gordon Green, whom he regarded as his greatest mentor.

He has also played and directed many cycles of the five Beethoven Concertos with the Dresdner Philharmonie in Germany and at the Royal Festival Hall in London. He has often appeared with this orchestra, both as soloist and conductor. His repertoire is enormous, including 70 concertos and most of the major works of the great composers, and he has become a champion of the Tippett Concerto, which he performed several times with the composer conducting. Tirimo is particularly renowned for his Schubert interpretations, and in 1975 became the first pianist to perform a truly complete cycle of the 21 sonatas in public, with his own completions to the unfinished movements, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. The eight CDs were released throughout 1997 and in the same season he presented six concerts at Wigmore Hall devoted to all of Schubert’s major piano works.

At the age of sixteen Martino won the Liszt Scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, graduating with the highest honours, after which he completed his studies in Vienna. He later worked closely with Gordon Green, whom he regarded as his greatest mentor.

Throughout his career as a violinist he has collaborated with an eclectic range of different artists: Gavin Bryars, Laurie Anderson, Aidan Love, Roma and Bluegrass musicians and projects for Boy George, Mick Jagger and Martin Green. He has specialised in folk and traditional music from across Europe, which is an inspiration for CD releases. As a composer he has created many works for the theatre and opera, including the National Theatre, Opera North and the Berlin Ensemble. This has a led to a specialism in cross-disciplinary performance and exploring cultural and artistic boundaries resulting in commissions in Romania, Japan and China.

As well as being a cultural commentator, Joe regularly speaks at conferences on collaboration, pedagogy, audience development and social entrepreneurship. He consults on early career survival for emerging artists with Serious Productions, Help Musicians UK and English Folk Expo and running courses for the V&A Innovative Leadership Programme.