Trumpet player Rebecca Crawshaw to perform `Premonitions’
Rebecca Crawshaw is to perform Nigel’s solo trumpet work `Premonitions’ on 2nd June at 1.15pm in St. Marylebone Parish Church (opposite The Royal Academy of Music) in London. More information to follow soon.
Rebecca Crawshaw is one of the most promising young professional Trumpet players in the UK. Emerging from a brass band background she was principal in the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain for 6 years, a soloist with the European Youth Brass Band and a finalist in BBC Young Brass Player of the Year. During her time at Cambridge Rebecca held a Music Exhibition Award from Jesus College and was principal trumpet in the CUMS I orchestra, The Cambridge Beethoven Ensemble and the award winning Shadwell Opera Company. She has recently worked with professional ensembles such as the London Sinfonietta and Opera North and is soon to perform as a soloist in The Spitalfields Festival. She is also an accomplished Baroque Trumpet player and is involved in The Royal Academy Bach Cantata series.
Rebecca was a former student of Murray Greig, and Jim Watson, and currently studies Trumpet with Rod Franks and Mark David and Natural Trumpet with John Hutchins as a postgraduate student at the Royal Academy of Music.