About Us
Alice Gledhill - clarinet
Alice completed her Undergraduate and Postgraduate degrees at the Royal College of Music , studying under Richard Hosford. She held a full Founder Scholarship for four years, becoming the Sir Arthur Bliss Scholar, supported by a South Square Trust Award in her Postgraduate year.
Her professional orchestral experience includes playing Principal Clarinet with the English National Ballet, touring the country with Prokfiev’s The Snow Queen, and taking part in live Radio 2 broadcasts of Friday Night is Music Night, with the BBC Concert Orchestra. She has also performed with the European Chamber Opera, Opera UK, Worthing Symphony Orchestra, Britten-Pears Young Artists programme for the Aldeburgh Festival, and took part in the London Symphony Orchestra Woodwind Academy.
Alice regularly plays clarinet and saxophone in the West End production of Les Miserables and also played for the Trevor Nunn production of Porgy and Bess at the Savoy Theatre, London. She appeared as the solo clarinettist on the BBC4 documentary, ‘Scouting for Boys’ presented by Ian Hislop.
Aside from playing, Alice is a keen music educator – taking part in projects with the Royal Opera House, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra and the National Youth Orchestra. She is the Orchestral Manager for the National Children’s Wind and Chamber Orchestras of Great Britain, runs Music Activity courses for Musicale Holidays, and teaches at Putney High School for Girls.
Martha Hardman - oboe
Martha graduated from the Royal College of Music in 2007 having received an Undergraduate Degree and Postgraduate Diploma. Prior to this she studied at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester.
While at Chetham’s she won the Larson Wind Prize and she toured Germany with the Lancashire Students Symphony Orchestra, performing Corelli’s Oboe Concerto.
She has played principal oboe and cor anglais in many concerts within the Royal College of Music’s Sinfonietta, Opera Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra, including a performance of Bruckner’s 9th Symphony under Bernard Haitink.
True to her roots, Martha’s earliest performing experiences were as both a Euphonium and Baritone player in a number of brass bands in Lancashire. She continues to play brass band music in London and is a member of the championship section brass band, “Zone One Brass”
Lully Bathurst - bassoon
Lully graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in June 2007 with a First Class Honours Degree. She took up the bassoon at the age of 11. In 1996 she began lessons with Bob Porter at the Junior Department of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Two years later she accepted a place at the prestigious Chethams School of Music in Manchester studying under Graham Salvage. Whilst at Chethams, Lully won the concerto competition, performing Weber's Bassoon Concerto with Chethams Chamber Orchestra.
Lully has been Principal Bassoon of the the National Children's Wind Ensemble and Chamber Orchestra of Great Britain, and Principal of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. As Principal of the Musicale Young Artists Symphony Orchestra, a position held for five years, she was invited to perform the Weber Bassoon Concerto.
In 2002 she attended the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) with a full scholarship. She studied the bassoon with John Orford and Gareth Newman, and the contrabassoon with David Chatterton. In just her first year, she won the prestigious Florence Woodbridge Bassoon Prize. She has played principal in both the RAM Concert and Symphony Orchestras, and was chosen to play in the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, with members of the Julliard School under Sir Colin Davis.
In the summer of 2007, Lully took part in the LSO St Luke's Woodwind Academy. It was an intensive week of masterclasses, chamber music and repertoire sessions coached by the Principal woodwind players of the LSO. Since leaving the Academy, Lully has played with the All Saints Church Chorus, the Brandenburg Sinfonia, and enjoys teaching,conducting the Wind orchestras of Musicale, Harpenden, and tutoring on the National Children's Wind Sinfonia of Great Britain.