Jennifer Langridge - Cello

with MARGARET SEMPLE - Piano
Thursday 5th June 2008 - 13:00
Tickets: £5

PROGRAMME:

JENNIFER LANGRIDGE - Cello
Jennifer was born and brought up in Pinner.  When she wasn't hanging around the choir vestry door at the parish church, she learned the cello with Patricia Jennison and attended the Harrow Musicians at Hatch End High School.  She went to school at the North London Collegiate School, and finally she moved away to Manchester where she has lived ever since!

Jennifer graduated at the Royal Northern College of Music where she was awarded a Junior Fellowship in chamber music with the Nossek String Quartet.

In 1991 she became principal cellist with Psappha, the leading contemporary music ensemble of the north of England.  She has toured to four continents with Psappha, has made many recordings for BBC Radio 3 and for CD and in 2004 she appeared as soloist with Psappha in Maxwell Davies' Linguae Ignis at the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall.

Being a freelance cellist has allowed Jennifer to mix her professional life with having a family.  She regularly works with the BBC Philharmonic, Northern Chamber Orchestra, Halle and Opera North where she is currently working as guest principal cello.

Jennifer is committed to music education and in 2005 founded Minimusic for babies and toddlers.

She is married to percussionist, Tim Williams and has two boys, George and Oscar.

MARGARET SEMPLE - Piano
Margaret studied at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada and graduated with a BA in English, then at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, where she was awarded gold medals for performance in organ and piano, and the ARCMT degree.  Whilst still resident in Canada, she was active as a recitalist on the organ and was soloist in piano and organ concertos with orchestras in Toronto and other Canadian cities.

In London, Margaret studied composition with Eric Thiman and organ with Douglas Hawkridge and subsequently became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists.

Margaret furthered her studies at the Institute of Education, University of London where she gained a Diploma in Music Teaching.  She taught for many years at the North London Collegiate School, where she was active in building up the Instrumental Music Department and in establishing a tradition of teaching and playing chamber music in the school.  She is an examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.