Victoria Mavromoustaki

Victoria leads a varied career both as a performer and an educator. In addition to her solo engagements and her regular collaborations with pianist Eleni Mavromoustaki, Victoria is also a founder member of Isolde piano trio.

Victoria has made both solo and chamber appearances in Europe, Africa and Middle East and has been on stage at some of the most prestigious venues, including London's Wigmore Hall and The Royal Albert Hall. As a soloist she has performed with several orchestras including the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra, and Oxford Philharmonic.

Born in Limassol, Cyprus, Victoria began studying violin at the age of three with Andreas Konstantinou and made her début recital at the age of seven. She won numerous awards and prizes including, in 1999, a scholarship to study at the Purcell School of Music in the UK with Maciej Rakowsky. She, later, went on to study at the Royal College of Music under the guidance of Itzhak Rashkovsky.

As well as being a Royal College of Music Scholar, she also received many awards including the MBF Myra Hess award, the Kit and John Gander Award and the Joan Weller Award. In 2006 she won the Philip Crawshaw memorial prize at the ROSL competition and in 2008 she received an award at the Carl Flesh International Violin Competition.

Victoria is involved with many educational projects in London such as Music Masters UK and the Albert Hall ensemble "Alberts Band". She has previously also held the position of teacher of violin at Junior Trinity. She is the founder of "Cyprus Music Makers" an organisation that aims to bring high quality performances and mentoring in Cyprus.

Future appearances include recitals in Cyprus and the UK with her sister Eleni Mavromoustaki and with the Isolde Piano Trio.

ELENI MAVROMOUSTAKI

Eleni has been hailed as ‘...an extremely accomplished pianist, an artist of determination, accuracy and supreme expression.’

Eleni has given performances in Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Iceland, South Korea, the UK and USA, appearing in venues such as the Megaron in Athens and Thessaloniki, The Rialto Cyprus, St. Martin-in- the-Fields, The Queens Hall Edinburgh and The Seoul Concert Hall.

She has collaborated on numerous occasions with Cyprus Symphony Orchestra, the Patras Chamber Orchestra, the state orchestra of Thessaloniki, the Scottish Ensemble, the Hyperion Ensemble and performances have been broadcast on CYBC radio and television.

After completing her studies at the Royal College of music andthe Royal Scottish Conservatoire, Eleni went on to win prizes at the Maria Callas Grand Prix in Athens, the Mozart International Competition Salzburg, the EU Piano Competition in Prague and the Royal Overseas League Competition. Her mentors have included Yonty Solomon, Fali Pavri and Martino Tirimo.

Eleni resides in London and enjoys a varied career as a soloist, chamber musician, teacher and as an accredited instructor in yoga for children. Future musical engagements include numerous collaborations with her sister Victoria and the Isolde Piano Trio.

Eleni is an Artistic Advisor for Cyprus Music Makers, a non- profit organization based in Limassol, which aims to bring high- level classical music performance and tuition to pupils from the city and surrounding areas.

HARRY KERR

I am an orchestral violinist and educator with 21 years of professional teaching and performing experience.

I play in the violin section of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and I am concurrently a violin tutor with Music Masters - a music education initiative that provides high quality, long-term musical instrument tuition to children from diverse communities in inner-city primary schools.

Since I graduated from the RCM in 1999, I have toured the world with Britain’s leading orchestras. I am now perfectly suited to take up a tutoring position at the very institution which provided me with this life changing opportunity - and to impart that valuable experience to a new generation of orchestral artists.

Over the years I have encountered myriad teaching and pedagogy methods and have strived to take the most beneficial elements of these systems and to coalesce them into a streamlined and effective teaching method, which is adapted to today’s pace of life and expectation.

I am passionate about high quality music education and have been teaching in state and private schools since I graduated from the Royal College of Music in 1999, alongside my performance career, which has taken me to nearly every major concert hall in the world.

In addition to my school-based work, I have actively participated in education and community outreach projects, belonging to the various orchestras I have been employed by, which has allowed me to bring the life benefits of music education to schools in places as far-flung as India, Gabon, Bermuda and Cyprus, teaching violin to some of the most privileged of pupils and to those from some of the most deprived of backgrounds.

In my spare time, I write adventure novels and have tried my hand at children’s books. I trained as a ballet dancer from the age of 6-18 years and still maintain a keen interest in the art and fundamentally believe in fitness and good posture as a route to the highest standards of music performance - it is also an essential asset in avoiding posture related injury from sustained bouts of orchestral playing, such as can be suffered during major operas.

I have travelled extensively, touring most of India, the Middle and the Far East, the Americas and parts of Africa not to mention extensively throughout Europe both as a professional musician and as an explorer.