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Introducing Shuwei, another of our new amazing violin teachers 🎻

Shuwei has worked with some of the world’s top orchestras and ensembles, including the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Royal Opera House, Britten Sinfonia, Manchester Camerata, Manchester Collective, and is currently working at Sinfonia Smith Square. Shuwei enjoys collaboration and chamber music and has offered numerous solo, trio, and quartet concerts and recordings in York, Leeds, Hazelmere, London and Manchester.

She embarked on her musical journey at the age of 5 and attended a specialist music school. She took part in a tour in Taiwan with the China Youth Symphony Orchestra in 2012. In 2014, she successfully gained a place at the Central Conservatory of Music, studying with Jia Zhang, Liwei Tan, and Wei Xue. In the same year, she participated in the New York Summit Festival, where she was highly commended by legendary violinist Aaron Rosand, with whom she had lessons.

She moved to the UK to undertake her Master’s degree at the Royal Academy of Music in 2018. She also won first prize in the Hummingbird Music Competition with her trio and was invited to hold chamber concerts in Peking University, Yantai, Wuxi, and many other cities.

She is currently studying at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire on the Advanced Postgraduate Diploma with a scholarship soon after she received distinction graduation from Royal Northern College of Music.

Introducing one of our two new violin teachers 🎻

Kieran completed his Master’s degree in Violin Performance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire, where he studied violin with John Crawford. He has a first-class undergraduate music degree from Royal Holloway University of London, where he studied violin with Anna Cashell.

Since then, Kieran has been involved in many musical projects, from orchestral playing with Siegfried Camerata and others, to session recording both from his own home studio and in commercial studios. He was a wandering violinist entertainer at Sandown Park Racecourse; played with progressive rock band The Connoisseur; performed in the chamber group Duo Realia; arranged and performed music for weddings and events, and was a beat maker for an international comedy rap group with over 2 million views on YouTube, while also masterminding the collaborative YouTube band CatHatFiddle.

Kieran has taught both violin and music theory privately to all levels for over a decade, both in person, and online over Zoom. Before moving to Stratford-upon-Avon, he worked for the Surrey Arts Music Service for 9 years, doing everything from individual teaching to group teaching, whole class teaching, orchestral tutoring for junior strings orchestras and county-level youth orchestra, conducting and running a senior strings orchestra, and even producing audio and video recordings of at-home performances during the pandemic. Kieran is a skilled in audio and video production as well as coding and app creation.

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