Alison Gillies

Cello

Current position:

• Welsh National Opera, tutti cello 2018-date

Freelance:
• BBC Concert Orchestra (tutti, including live broadcast)
• BBC National Orchestra of Wales (tutti, including BBC Proms, live broadcasts and recording sessions)
• Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (tutti and no.3, including Classic FM Live, live broadcasts and recording sessions)
• English Symphony Orchestra (no.3)
• London Concert Orchestra (Raymond Gubbay) – principal
• Longborough Festival Opera (no. 2)
• NSO, Ireland (tutti)
• Opera North (tutti)
• RTÉ Concert Orchestra (tutti)
• Ulster Orchestra (tutti)

West End and Touring Shows
• Deputy for Ghost the Musical (on tour)
• Deputy for Top Hat (including cast recording - West End and touring)
• Deputy for South Pacific (on tour)

Commercial / Pop
• Sessions for Netflix Black Mirror and Apple TV Criminal Record
• BBC Natural History Unit: recording sessions
• BBC Radio 4: After the Accident (composition and solo cello performance) Swimming Lessons (solo cello)
• Anthony Head (session)
• Roni Size & Reprazent (live)
• Kanye West (live)
• Neil Davidge / Sandy Shaw (session)
• McFly (session)

Dance
• Hofesh Shechter Dance Company
• Anton du Beke & Erin Boag: Puttin’ on the Ritz tour, Let’s Do It tour

Education
• MPhil – Bristol University (2006-10)
• MMus (perf) – Trinity College of Music (2000-02)
• BMus (IIi) - Cardiff University (1996-99), including John Morgan Lloyd Prize and three-year string scholarship

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Instruments
Cello