Byron Wallen (b. 1969) was raised in a musical family and as a child studied classical piano, euphonium, trumpet, flute, and drums. In the mid 1980’s the trumpet became Wallen’s primary instrument of choice. Wallen’s first major work, Tarot Suite (1994), was inspired by a love of mythology and symbolism, which reflected the archetypal journey of human life through an interdisciplinary pan-continental approach.
Biography
Wallen’s study of cognitive psychology has aided his transition towards conceptualising music as a medium for healing. Wallen raises awareness and invokes change by unlocking boundaries through the nature and science of sound. Widely recognised as a seminal figure in Jazz, Wallen is an acclaimed writer and producer whose original scores have been commissioned by the Science Museum; PRS, The BBC, Jerwood Foundation, Southbank Centre, National Theatre, Arts Council, FIFA and Sage Gateshead. He has also composed soundscapes for Universal Pictures, Warner Bros and Game of Thrones.
Wallen’s PRS commission (2017) Anthem for Woolwich forges new links between schools, venues, musicians and residents to strengthen the resilience and promote the cohesion of the community. His latest commission is a collaboration with Sheila Hill and Howard Skempton for Brighton Festival 2019 called Eye to Eye.
Wallen has received the BBC Jazz Innovation award (2003) and has been nominated several times for the MOBO award. In 2017 he was awarded the Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists.
Errollyn Wallen CBE is a multi award-winning Belize-born British composer named as one of the world’s top twenty most performed living classical composers.
Biography
Her prolific output includes over twenty operas and a large catalogue of orchestral, chamber and vocal works, which are performed and broadcast throughout the world. She has composed for the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games 2012, for the Queen’s Golden and Diamond Jubilees, a specially commissioned song for COP 26, a re-imagining of Jerusalem for the Last Night of the Proms 2020. BBC Radio 3 featured her music for Composer of the Week, and she has made several radio documentaries. Errollyn collaborated with artist Sonia Boyce on her installation, Feeling Her Way,for the British Pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennale, which won the Golden Lion prize. Her acclaimed opera, Dido’s Ghost waspremiered at the Barbican in 2021 and received its US première in San Francisco in November 2023. Recent premieres include a Wigmore Hall debut performance of songs from The Errollyn Wallen Songbook, a violin concerto for Philippe Quint, Dances for Orchestra for Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Swedish Chamber Orchestra and Irish Chamber Orchestra, Night Thoughts, a song cycle for Dame Sarah Connolly and pianist Joseph Middleton and PARADE commissioned by Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
With Myleene Klass, Errollyn recently co-presented a three-part series, Musical Masterpieces, for SkyArts television.
Errollyn Wallen’s book, Becoming a Composer was published by Faber in November and will be translated into Spanish.
Errollyn Wallen’s recordings have travelled 7.84 million kilometers in space, completing 186 orbits around the Earth on NASA’s STS-115 mission.
Born in Belize, Errollyn gave up her training at the Dance Theater of Harlem, New York to study composition at the universities of London and Cambridge.
Errollyn’s song Daedalus appears alongside songs by Björk, Sting, Elvis Costello and Meredith Monk on the Brodsky Quartet’s recent CD, Moodswings. Her solo albums Meet Me at Harold Moores and more recently, Errollyn, feature her songs in her own voice/piano performance and in collaboration with outstanding jazz artists.
The Errollyn Wallen Songbook published by Peters Edition comprises twelve of her celebrated songs for voice with piano accompaniment.
Errollyn has composed numerous works for The Orchestra of the Swan, and in 2006 she was appointed Composer in Association.
Raphael Wallfisch
International Chair of Violoncello and Chamber Music
Raphael Wallfisch is one of the most celebrated cellists performing on the international stage. He was born in London into a family of distinguished musicians, his mother the cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch and his father the pianist Peter Wallfisch.
At an early age, Raphael was greatly inspired by hearing Zara Nelsova play, and, guided by a succession of fine teachers including Amaryllis Fleming, Amadeo Baldovino and Derek Simpson, it became apparent that the cello was to be his life’s work. While studying with the great Russian cellist Gregor Piatigorsky in California, he was chosen to perform chamber music with Jascha Heifetz in the informal recitals that Piatigorsky held at his home.
Biography
At the age of twenty-four he won the Gaspar Cassadó International Cello Competition in Florence. Since then he has enjoyed a world-wide career playing with such orchestras as the London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia, BBC Symphony, English Chamber Orchestra, Hallé, City of Birmingham Symphony, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Berlin Symphony, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Indianapolis Symphony, Warsaw Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic and many others.
He is regularly invited to play at major festivals such as the BBC Proms, Edinburgh, Aldeburgh, Spoleto, Prades, Oslo and Schleswig Holstein. He is also frequently invited to be a jury member of international competitions such as the Rostropovich International Competition in Paris, the Schoenfeld in China and the Enescu in Romania.
Teaching is one of Raphael’s passions and is in demand as a teacher all over the world. A former professor of cello in Switzerland at the Zürich Hochschule der Kunst, he is currently professor of cello at the Royal College of Music alongside his role as International Chair of Violoncello and Chamber Music at Trinity Laban.
Raphael has recorded nearly every major work for his instrument. His extensive discography on EMI, Chandos, Black Box, ASV, Naxos and Nimbus explores both the mainstream concerto repertoire and countless lesser-known works by Dohnanyi, Respighi, Barber, Hindemith and Martinu, as well as Richard Strauss, Dvorak, Kabalevsky and Khachaturian. He has recorded a wide range of British cello concertos, including works by MacMillan, Finzi, Delius, Bax, Bliss, Britten, Moeran and Kenneth Leighton. For the Chandos Walton Edition he was privileged to record the composer’s Cello Concerto, originally written for his master, Piatigorsky.
Britain’s leading composers have worked closely with Raphael, many having written works especially for him. These include Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Kenneth Leighton, James MacMillan, John Metcalf, Paul Patterson, Robert Simpson, Robert Saxton, Roger Smalley, Giles Swayne, John Tavener and Adrian Williams.
Alongside his solo career, Raphael has a long-standing and distinguished duo with pianist John York. With a rich history of many international recital tours and numerous recordings, the duo celebrated its 35th anniversary in 2017. Raphael also greatly enjoys touring with his very successful piano trio – Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch – which he and his colleagues Hagai Shaham (violin) and Arnon Erez (piano) founded in 2009. Several recordings have been released so far, including the complete Beethoven Trios, each receiving the highest critical acclaim.
Raphael plays the 1733 Montagnana “Ex-Romberg” celo and an exquisite modern cello built for Raphael by Patrick Robin.
Tom Walsh, b. 1991, graduated from the Royal Academy of Music’s Jazz Course in 2013, and since then has gone on to work with artists such as Quincy Jones, Al Jarreau & Randy Brecker. Tom has played with some of the premier large ensembles and orchestras in Europe, including WDR Big Band, BBC Big Band, Philharmonia Orchestra and the English National Ballet Orchestra. Alongside his role of Professor of Trumpet at London’s Guildhall School of Music and Trinity College of Music, he is an active session musician and arranger, having recorded on over 1000 tracks from his home studio.
Benjamin graduated from London Studio Centre in 2009 with a First Class BA Hons Degree in Theatre Dance. He has spent the most part of his career with Michael Clark Company, with whom he has performed extensively across Europe, Australia, and America (as well as in all seasons at the Barbican, London) in, come, been, and gone, animal/vegetable/mineral, and to a simple, rock n roll.. song since their creation. He still performs with the company on a seasonal basis.
Biography
Freelancing since late 2014, Ben joined Yorke Dance Project and became part of the Figure Ground (2015), Rewind Forward (2016), and TWENTY (2019) tours. He performed at London’s Coronet Theatre (with Print Room Dance Company) in March 2016 as a member of Hubert Essakow’s Terra. In 2017, as a solo performer, Ben collaborated with internationally-renowned artist Wolfgang Tillmans in an immersive residency at Tate Modern, and in April 2019 performed at the Barbican in the Merce Cunningham Trust’s Night Of 100 Solos.
Ben’s film credits include Anna Karenina (2012) choreographed by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui; World War Z (2013) choreographed by Alex Reynolds; and How To Talk To Girls At Parties (2017) choreographed by Lea Anderson. He has also worked with fashion photographers Nick Knight, Jake Walters, Cecilie Harris, Sarah Brimley, Philip Riches, Willy Vanderperre and Elliot Kennedy, and has featured in Arena Homme+, AnOther, and Jocks&Nerds magazines – the cover model for Arena Homme+ in 2010. Completing an Extended Level 6 Diploma in Dance Teaching, with bbodance in 2017, Ben hopes to be able to broaden his career by marrying performance opportunities with teaching projects across the country. He is now an academic tutor on the diploma program and a contributor to the new contemporary dance syllabus for bbodance. In recent years, Ben has choreographed curtain-raisers on behalf of Yorke Dance Project at Arts University Bournemouth and Totton College, and has led CAT Scheme sessions in London, Birmingham, and Swindon. He is delighted to have been a part of the teaching faculty at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance since May 2018, and is looking forward to continuing on both the BA Contemporary Technique and the Personal Tutoring teams.
Renowned as one of the top British jazz trumpet players both at home and on the international scene, Steve began his career while studying at Trinity College of Music, playing with the European Community Jazz Orchestra and the National Youth Jazz Orchestra. Since then, he has worked regularly on the British and European jazz scene with John Surman, Andy Sheppard, Tony Coe, Carla Bley, Don Weller and many others.
Cleveland was born in Hackney, East London to a Jamaican family. At age 16, he won twice in a local singing talent competition, hosted by “FatMan” of FatMan Sound System (North East London Based Roots, Reggae & Dub Sound System). Later he studied music at the London School of Singing and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama thereafter. He was taught by the most respected coaches in the industry.
He has worked closely and performed together with the diverse range of artists across the world, including Stevie Wonder, The Who, Richard Spaven Trio, Louis Moholo, Bobby McFerrin, Goldie, Björk, Talvin Singh, Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, Abdullah Ibrahim, Shabaka And The Ancestors, Nigel Kennedy, George Martin, Black Top, William Parker & Hamid Drake, Branford & Wynton Marsalis +JALC, London Community Gospel Choir, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Chamber Orchestra and many others.
Biography
He’s an original founder member of the Jazz Warriors, and now Co-Director of Warriors International. Most recently, for his services to music Cleveland has been appointed an MBE.
He has also received multiple prestigious awards and nominations, including Jazz Vocalist of the Year at the Parliamentary Jazz Awards 2017 (Winner), Best Jazz Act at the MOBO Awards 2017 (Nominee), Best Vocalist at the London Jazz Awards 2010 (Winner), and Best Vocalist at the Guardian Jazz Awards (Winner) for three consecutive years.
Steve Watts
Professorial Staff - Jazz Bass, Jazz Combos, Rhythm Section Coach
Steve Watts has been playing jazz on the British scene for over 25 years, during which time he has worked with many musicians of international stature, incuding: Django Bates, Iain Ballamy, Julian Arguelles, Kenny Wheeler, Stan Sulzman, Jim Mullen, Joe Lovano, Kirk Lightsey, Richard Rodney Bennett and many more. He is a member of the influential Loose Tubes jazz orchestra and “The Printmakers “- a band featuring Norma Winstone, Nikki Iles and Mike Walker. He has made numerous broadcasts for radio and television and has recorded widely. Live work has taken him all over the world and his playing can be heard on the soundtracks of many films.
He is a committed educator and currently teaches at Trinity Laban and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He has previously taught at the Royal Academy of Music and for the National Youth Jazz Collective as well as teaching and leading workshops in schools across the country.
Helen is a specialist in massage for dancers, having trained at the London School of Sports Massage in 1996. She has previously been a company massage therapist with the English National Ballet and the Royal Ballet.
Biography
Helen is a specialist in massage for dancers, having trained at the London School of Sports Massage in 1996. She has previously been a company massage therapist with the English National Ballet and the Royal Ballet. At Trinity Laban Health, where she has worked since 2003, Helen utilises the AIM (Anatomy in Motion) technique to identify restricted or missing movements and apply corrective methods to re-educate the body, relieving pain by redistributing pressure. Within her sessions, Helen focuses on achieving muscular balance to enhance movement and function. Passionate about understanding the body’s design, Helen is also developing new techniques to teach dancers about their bodies, with an emphasis on injury prevention and self-care.
Robert is an internationally experienced arts educationalist. He has worked across a broad range of formal and non-formal settings: primary schools to higher education, dementia centres to prisons, even leading arts education across an entire country. Some of the UK’s most respected ensembles, orchestras and venues (Royal Festival Hall, Barbican Centre, London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra and Brodsky Quartet) have used him as a leader or advisor for their education projects.
Biography
Robert has been Programme Leader for Professional Studies at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Module Leader and professor at Trinity Laban Conservatoire and Subject Leader for Creative Art for the Ministry of Education in the United Arab Emirates. He helped develop the first joint international Masters programme in music, working with other conservatoires across Europe. He has created, managed and been consultant for numerous innovative projects across the UK, most notably the development of the non-formal strand of Musical Futures, and helped to develop the arts curriculum and specialist arts schools across the UAE. His work has been the focus of research for institutions and organisations including the Institute of Education, NESTA, and Youth Music. He is currently working for the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts in their iHub team as a Senior Education Designer.
Chris West is one of the few double bass players in the country to have reached the highest levels both as a soloist/chamber musician as well as in chamber orchestras, symphony orchestras, opera and film & TV sessions. This breadth of experience enables him to help students achieve their goals in whichever area of the profession they lie. His book Reaching The Heights – A Guide To Thumb Position on the Double Bass has been described as ‘an important contribution to the Double Bass technique repertoire’.
For over thirty years, Chris has appeared regularly as guest principal with many major UK orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, Academy of St.Martin-in-the-fields and Britten Sinfonia and he can be heard on iconic soundtracks such as Downton Abbey, and Harry Potter films. His chamber music recordings have appeared on the RCA/BMG, Hyperion, Naxos and Somm labels.
Esmee West-Agboola
Practice as Research Specialist, Academic Supervisor
Esmee (she/her) is a London based dancer, visual artist, theatre practitioner and creative researcher. Her PhD research predominately engages with expressions of femininity, Black-Mixed Race identity, sexuality and mental health.
Biography
Since graduating from Bird College in 2016 and Royal Central School of Speech & Drama in 2018, she has held various producing and creative roles across productions at tiata fahodzi, Southbank Centre, Young Vic, Camden People’s Theatre and China Plate Theatre Company, and completed her first public-facing art commission in 2022.
Esmee currently trains and performs with the first London season of Waacking dance collective House of Suraj, led by choreographer Kumari Suraj. Alongside this, she also teaches across various performance degrees at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama and at Performers College. Finally, she is currently in the process of creating her first portrait collection which brings to life the grounding ideas of her PhD.
Paul Michael Westwood
Professorial Staff - Jazz Electric Bass, Bass Guitar (BA Music Performance and Industry)
Paul joined the National Youth Jazz Orchestra at 16, and studied at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with James Merritt (principal bass, London Philharmonic Orchestra), and at the Royal Academy of Music with John Dankworth and Graham Collier.
Biography
Lecturing and teaching
Paul’s teaching career includes:
London College of Music at the University of West London (2008 to date)
Jazz and Popular Music: bass guitar BMus (Hons), MMus Performance
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance (2002 to date)
Jazz: bass guitar BMus (Hons), MMus Performance
Morley College (1997 to date)
Bass guitar and Jazz workshops: beginners to advanced level.
Royal Academy of Music (1994-2007)
Jazz: bass guitar BMus (Hons) Performance.
Media & Applied Music: recording, composition & performance BMus.
Research projects
Elizabethan music: Experiments with early 17th century English melodies, melding with Turkish rhythm and harmony of the times.
Henry Purcell: Late 17th century songs and their influence on 20th century jazz and Motown.
Turkish music: The Maqam harmonic system and ethnic percussion influences on European music.
Moroccan and Andalusian music: A journey through regional variations of the music.
Sir Thomas Brown: The relevance of 17th century numerology, cosmology and alchemy in contemporary music.
John Coltrane: Spirituality, symbolism and structure used in 20th century ‘free-form’ jazz.
World Music: Contemporary developments in digital and analogue bass guitars and their use in performance.
Composition and Performance
Jazz
Paul Westwood’s Jazz FX.
Compositions for his own group include: Jaguarisms, The Earth Born, El Rif, Storm Watcher, The Art of Snake Charming, Arabethan Tales, The Garden of Cyrus, Musical Souls.
Performance
Commercial recording, composition and studio work (1978 to date)
Paul has composed, arranged and recorded 16 albums of media music, which have been used extensively by KPM Ltd, De Wolfe Ltd, ITV, BBC and Sky for signature tunes, incidental music and advertising jingles.
Albums
Paul has been a top London session musician, working on albums for many artists including Warren Bernhardt, David Bowie, Jose Carreras, Larry Coryell, Steve Gadd, Peter Green, Elton John, Nik Kershaw, Leiber & Stoller, Andrew Lloyd Webber, London Symphony Orchestra, Madonna, George Martin, George Michael, Gilbert O’Sullivan, Phil Ramone, Tim Rice, Cliff Richard, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The Shadows, Wayne Shorter, Rod Stewart, Barbara Thompson and John Williams (gtr).
Film Soundtracks
He has performed on numerous film soundtracks for composers who include John Altman, John Barry, David Bowie, Carl Davis, George Fenton, Ron Goodwin, Trevor Jones, Peter Knight, Michel Le Grand, Henry Mancini, Paul McCartney, The Sex Pistols, Debbie Wiseman and Hans Zimmer. In 2018, Paul was bass guitar coach to actor Joe Mazzello, who played the part of John Deacon in the Academy Award-winning movie Bohemian Rhapsody.
Television Shows
Paul has performed on many TV shows with artists such as George Benson, Chuck Berry, Joe Cocker, Randy Crawford, Gloria Estefan, James Galway, Janet Jackson, Al Jarreau, Tom Jones, Luciano Pavarotti, The Temptations, Dionne Warwick and Barry White.
International Tours and Concerts
Paul has also toured in over 25 countries worldwide.
(Forthcoming publication Autumn 2020) ‘Bass and Korean Percussion Bible’, AMA Verlag, Germany.
Bass guitar and percussion tuition book: Asian traditional percussion and its influences on contemporary western bass lines. Suitable for beginners to advanced level. Styles featured compliment rock, pop, funk, jazz and Latin music. Includes 3 CDs of examples of playing styles.
(Forthcoming publication Spring 2020) ‘Bass Bible 2’, AMA Verlag, Germany.
Bass guitar tuition book: a world history of traditional and contemporary bass lines. Suitable for beginners to advanced level. A sequel to the original Bass Bible, BB2 explores further examples of rock, pop, funk, jazz and world music. Includes 3 CDs of examples of playing styles.
‘A-Z of Bass Guitar’, Music Sales Ltd. 2011, ISBN 978-1-84938-865-8
Tuition and demonstration DVD of contemporary bass guitar styles and techniques.
‘Bass Bible’, AMA Verlag, Germany, revised 3rd edition, 2011.
English, ISBN 3-927190-67-5; French, ISBN 3-932587-30-8; German, ISBN 3-927190-84-5; Japanese, ISBN 4-7549-3481-4; Chinese, ISRC CN-Q06-04-0031-0/A.G4.
‘Bass Bible’, AMA Verlag, Germany, revised 2nd edition, 2004.
‘The Bassist’, Bass Player Magazine, 2002.
A series of magazine articles about the music business.
‘Bass Bible’, AMA Verlag, Germany, 1st edition, 1997.
Bass guitar tuition book: a world history of traditional and contemporary bass lines, featuring styles that include rock, pop, funk, jazz Latin and world music. Suitable for beginners to advanced level. Translations in English, French and German. Includes 2 CDs of examples of playing styles.
‘The Complete Bass Guitar Player’, Music Sales Ltd. 1991. Omnibus OV10267.
Tuition and demonstration video of contemporary bass guitar styles and techniques.
Born in London but brought up in Kent, Philip started playing the trombone aged 8. At 13 he became a founder member of the National Children’s Orchestra and at 14 entered the junior department of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Here he studied with Leon Taylor and two years later won the coveted brass prize. Upon leaving school, Philip went to the Royal College of Music, where he spent four years studying with John Iveson and Arthur Wilson. He graduated with a GRM Hons degree and a ARCM performing diploma.
Biography
Throughout Philip’s career, he has worked with many diverse groups and ensembles. Earlier in his career, he worked on cruise ships and in touring and West End shows such as Chess, Fiddler on the Roof, The Sound of Music, Guys and Dolls, The Lion King, Cats, Starlight Express and The Wizard of Oz. He is a regular performer with cutting edge contemporary music ensembles such as the London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Modern and the Britten Sinfonia. His orchestral work has been where Philip has spent the most part of his career so far. He has freelanced with most of the leading UK orchestras such as the London Symphony, BBC Symphony, BBC Concert, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Bournemouth Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony, Welsh Opera, English National Opera and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. In 2001 he was appointed 2nd Trombone in the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, a position he held until 2010 when he moved to the same position in the Philharmonia Orchestra.
Mary Wiegold is known for her committed performances of new music and has given over two hundred premieres. She has had many works written for her and in 1989 she started collecting a songbook of works by composers ranging from Sir Harrison Birtwistle and Milton Babbitt to Elvis Costello and Keith Tippett. She has sung in the festivals at Aldeburgh, the Almeida, Bratislava, Brighton, Cheltenham, Glasgow Musica Nova, Huddersfield, Montepulciano and many others.
Biography
Opera appearances include the Royal Opera House’s Garden Venture and the first performances of Birtwistle’s opera Yan Tan Tethera with Opera Factory/London Sinfonietta. In 1989 she founded the Composers Ensemble with the composer John Woolrich. With them she has given concerts throughout Britain and overseas (including an Arts Council Contemporary Music Network Tour of her Songbook), set up and led numerous creative education project and made many recordings.
Throughout her career she has been deeply involved in educational work in Britain and abroad. Her work with Gemini in the 1980’s included major projects in Merseyside, East Anglia, for the Arts Council Contemporary Music Network and the Regional Contemporary Network. She has also worked for many other major organisations including Kent Opera, English National Opera’s Baylis Programme, the English Sinfonia and La Caixa Summer School in Barcelona as well as many visits to Dartington International Summer School.
Since 1990 Sioned Williams has combined her position as Principal Harpist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra with recitals, concertos, broadcasting, recording, researching and teaching both in the UK and abroad. As a soloist, Sioned has performed all the major concertos, as well as more unusual repertoire in major concert halls, on radio live and television, with orchestras such as the City of London Sinfonia, BBC Concert Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra and BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Biography
As an orchestral musician, Sioned has appeared with every major UK orchestra, as well as West End theatre and film orchestras.
Sioned is also well-known for her work with choirs. These include the Liszt Choir in Hungary, the choir of Christchurch, Oxford, the BBC Singers, Bernstein with Westminster Abbey and The Bach Choir. She has also given recitals with many singers and instrumentalists including Michael Chance, Martyn Hill, Steven Isserlis, Neil Mackie, Aurèle Nicolet, Mark Padmore, Andrew Watts, Jeremy Huw Williams, and Roderick Williams. Many of Sioned’s commercial recordings on Hyperion, EMI Classics, Collins Classics, Meridian and Proudsound have won awards and accolades. Apart from her solo CDs, she has partnered with James Galway, The Holst Singers, Lisa Milne, Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, Frederica von Stade, The Choir of Kings College Cambridge, The Sixteen, Westminster Cathedral Choir, and Winchester Quiristers on disc.
Sioned devised the renowned Professional Studies Course for Harpists at Trinity Laban, where she now holds the position of Senior Fellow in Harp Studies. In 2003, Sioned received her fourth fellowship, from the Royal Academy of Music, for her contribution to music. In 2005, Sioned was a consultant for the Geneva Conservatoire of Music in setting up a comprehensive harp department there.
