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Erica Simpson

Cello

ARAM  ARCM [Hons]

Began the cello with Lilly Phillips in 1967.
Won Exibition to Royal Academy of Music to study cello with Florence Hooton and singing with Marjorie Thomas.
Won String quartet prize, scale prize and best 2nd study singer prize
Studied with Pierre Fournier in Geneva whilst living in Freiburg.

Employment history 1990-present:
Orchestral Freelance
BBC Concert Orchestra
Philharmonia
Birmingham Royal Ballet
English National Ballet [occasionally no 2]
St John's Smith Square [no 2]
Freiburg Opera Orchestra
Theatre
Carousel
Les Miserables
Oliver
Miss Saigon
Chess
Aspects of Love
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Solo player in London City Ballet and London Contemporary Dance Company.

Recital with Hugh Webb at the Blenheim Music Society Chiswick
String Quartet backing Suzi Quattro
Coach Chamber music on Carribean Cruise
Philharmonia Chorus
Treasurer of London Cello Society [2007-8]

On trial with the BBC Concert Orchestra  May 2011

Teaching:
St Paul’s Girls’ School since 1986
Previously taught at Royal Academy of Music [junior dept]
St John’s College Cambridge [junior dept]
Bedales School

Plays on a Gand and Bernadel cello from 1875

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