Management

Left to right: Andrew Saunders, Michael Sullivan, Adam Barker.

Michael Sullivan

Michael Sullivan studied at Trinity College of Music, London as a violinist and has extensive experience as a chamber music performer. Since leaving college he has worked as a freelance musician as well as a professional conductor, performing in many major concert halls including conducting the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. As a violinist he has led the Stagg String Quartet for twenty years. As Head of Music Awards and Performance he is well known for his work locally with the West Sussex Music Service and as conductor of the West Sussex County Youth Orchestra.

Adam Barker

Adam Barker studied the violin and conducting at the Royal College of Music with Rodney Friend and Patrick Bailey.

As a violinist he has performed across Europe under the baton of many great conductors including Bernard Haitink, Andrew Litton, and Lord Yehudi Menuin. He is the co-founder and Musical Director of L’Orchestre Bleu. As a conductor he has performed in the Royal Festival Hall, London and Symphony Hall, Birmingham.

Adam specialises in the education of gifted young string players and works extensively tutoring both orchestras and individuals. He also teaches the violin and tutors string orchestras and chamber music at the Junior Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London.

Adam lives in West Sussex and is employed to teach the county's most able violinists and string orchestras by the West Sussex Music Support Service.

Andrew Saunders

Andrew Saunders won a full scholarship from the Associated Board to study piano with professor Niel Immelman at the Royal College of Music, London, where he graduated in 2004 with a BMus (Hons) degree. As a soloist he has performed in the UK and across Europe, including concerto performances of Gershwin, Grieg, Mozart K.488, Shostakovich No.2, Tchaikovsky No.1 and Constant Lambert's Rio Grande at London's Barbican, conducted by Charles Hazlewood for the 450th anniversary celebration of Christ’s Hospital school (where he studied as an A-level student). Concerts at other London venues have included the Purcell Room, St. Martin in the Fields, St John's Smith Square and the Venezuelan Embassy. As a chamber musician Andrew has worked with an ex-leader of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, 'BBC Young Musician of the Year' finalists and members of the major London orchestras.