DORSET CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

SOLOISTS

ROSI BREWSTER

Rosi began to play the oboe at 8 and has been taught by Elizabeth Jacoby ever since then. Her musical experience began 4 years earlier with the cello, on which she has enjoyed success at the National Chamber Music Competition, reaching the finals in 2001. Last year she won a Leverhulme scholarship as principal cellist of the National Childrens’ Orchestra and has recently given concerts with them in the Sage Centre, Gateshead and the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London.

In 2004 she won the cup for best overall wind player at Southampton Music Festival as well as cups for best in class for oboe and best Grade 8 recital on cello. In 2005 she performed as a soloist with the Dorset County and Dorset Chamber Orchestras.

Rosi attends Colyton Grammar School and has many other interests beside music, including gym, skiing, animals, watching TV and shopping !

JOHN CANDOR

While at school in Wiltshire John Candor was taught by Richard Walthew before going on to study the clarinet at Trinity College of Music where he was awarded a Fellowship and the Guild Prize for Woodwind.

He secured his first professional contract with the Royal Ballet during his final weeks at the college. As a touring musician and freelance player he went on to work in a variety of theatre, chamber and orchestral situations; these included seasonal and broadcasting work of light music with the Max Jaffa Orchestra, touring with the Bolshoi Ballet and orchestral work with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

John returned to Trinity from 1970 - 1981 as a professor of clarinet and for 10 years was also head of woodwind for the London Borough of Redbridge. During this period he lectured on the teaching of woodwind at the Guildhall School of Music.

Since moving to Dorset in 1989 he has regularly performed with the Dorset Chamber Orchestra. His solo work has included the clarinet concertos and quintets of Mozart, Weber and Brahms; a personal favourite being a performance of the Mozart concerto at The Maltings, Snape.

JULIAN LOCKETT

Julian Lockett grew up in Bristol, where he was Principal Bassoon with both the Bristol Schools’ Symphony Orchestra and County of Avon Schools’ Orchestra. He moved to Dorset in 1987, where he continued his study of Bassoon with Eric Butt.

Julian is a regular member of Dorset Chamber Orchestra, and also performs Chamber, Orchestral and Choral Music as a freelance bassoonist. Solo performances have included the ‘Elgar Romance’ with Salisbury Musical Society in Salisbury Cathedral, and the premier of a new solo work for bassoon in 2004, ‘The Kite’, by the Dorset composer Paul Coles. Julian appeared previously (to the October 2005 concert) as a soloist with the DChO, performing the Concerto for Two Bassoons by Wanhal.