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Monica Huggett is the Artistic Director of the Irish Baroque Orchestra. She was born and grew up in west London. She is the fifth of seven children born into a family of Irish, English and French descent. She started having violin lessons when she was six, on a half sized violin which had been given to her brother but never used. She was particularly keen to start with, but that initial enthusiasm waned when she realised she had to practise every day, and during the dinner hour. It was then she realised she was in for the long haul. At age twelve it was decided she was only fit for a career in music, so, although she passed 8 O-levels, at age 16 she was packed off to 5 years of grind at the Royal Academy of Music. Read more about Monica  |
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Claire Duff graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a BAHons Degree in Music and French, received distinction for the Postgraduate Diploma in Baroque Violin from the Royal Academy of Music, London, and while a student of Lucy van Dael graduated from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with a Masters in Performance. Whilst at the Academy Claire studied with Monica Huggett and Pavlo Beznosiuk and was the recipient of numerous prizes and awards. She is the first person from the Republic of Ireland to become a member of the European Union Baroque Orchestra for whom she returned as principal second violinist for a tour with Andrew Manze.
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Huw Daniel was a pupil at Ysgol Gymraeg Castell-nedd and Ysgol Gyfun Ystalyfera, South Wales, and continued his education as an organ scholar at Robinson College, Cambridge, where he graduated with first-class honours in music in 2001. He then studied at the Royal Academy of Music for two years, learning the modern violin with Hu Kun and baroque violin with Simon Standage. Read more about Huw |
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Belfast-born Jonathan Byers is 24 and studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London with David Strange, graduating in 2002. He then completed a two year post graduate course at the RAM, studying with Jennifer Ward-Clarke and Philip Sheppard.
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Sarah McMahon began her cello studies with Nora Gilleece at the Royal Irish
Academy of Music in Dublin in 1987. In 1995 she was awarded a place at the
Royal Academy of Music in London where she studied with David Strange, Jenny Ward-Clarke and Colin Carr graduating with a first class B Mus performance degree and a Dip RAM. Sarah now performs regularly both as soloist and chamber musician throughout Britain and Ireland Read more about Sarah |
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