Claire Phillips received an MA in Music from Cambridge University and studied violin with Gina McCormack in London. She is a qualified teacher and has experience of teaching Music from Foundation Stage to Advanced Level. Claire teaches both the GCSE class and Junior Music at the College, as well as violin and piano.
She is passionate about sharing her love of music with each of her pupils.
Astrid studied the violin and viola with Professor Ramy Shevelov in Hannover and with Professor Yfrah Neaman in London, where she received a silver medal for her LGSM Performer’s Diploma. She also attained a Teacher’s Diploma on the viola. She has been a member of the Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet Orchestra and later the Ulster Orchestra, where she still plays as deputy/extra. She has been performing chamber music as well as concertos, including a Mozart Concerto with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra. For the last twenty years she has taught pupils at the Ulster College of Music, the Belfast School of Music and privately from beginner to diploma standard.
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