Moira Hartley

Cello

Personal Statement
Professional freelance musician, Musical Director, with a passion for musical theatre and travel. Qualified teacher and music examiner for Trinity College, London - Rock & Pop Syllabus.

Instruments
Cello, Piano, Keyboards, Accordion, Vocal Coach, Musical Director.

Professional Experience – Musical Theatre
The Government Inspector 2025 Chichester Festival Theatre (On stage accordionist)
Bill Kenwright Memorial Concert 2024 London Palladium (Keys/Accordion)
The King & I UK & World tour 2019-20 (Cello /keys/ Cover Conductor)
Evita UK & European tour 2017-19 (Keys 3/Accordion)
Showboat New London Theatre 2016 (Dep Keys 2)
Tell Me On A Sunday Watermill Theatre & UK Tour 2016 (Cello / Assistant MD)
Balmoral - Fred Olsen Cruise Line 2015 Piano MD Balmoral Orchestra
West Side Story Sadler’s Wells & UK tour 2013-14 (Assistant MD /Principal Cello)
Mickey's Magical Gallery for Disney special events UK 2013 (Musical supervisor)
Cabaret Savoy Theatre 2012-2013 (Assistant MD, Keys 2/Accordion/Cello)
South Pacific Barbican Centre & UK Tour 2011-12 (Cello, dep Keys & 2nd MD)
Evita UK & European Tour 2009-10 (Keys 3/Accordion)
West Side Story Sadler’s Wells & UK tour 2008-9 (Principal Cello/Cover MD)
Treasure Island Derby Playhouse 2007-8 (Assistant MD, Cello/Double bass/Accordion)
Moon Landing Derby Playhouse 2007 (Cello/Double Bass)
Merrily We Roll Along Derby Playhouse 2007 (Assistant MD/Electric bass/Keyboards)
Johnno Derby Playhouse 2007 (Cello/Double bass)
Chicago UK Tour 2006-8 (weekly dep, Piano 2/Accordion)
Into the Woods Derby Playhouse 2006 (Assistant MD & Cello)
Company Derby Playhouse 2005 (Musical Director - Keyboards)
Sweeney Todd Derby Playhouse 2004 (Assistant MD/Cello)
Chicago Adelphi Theatre (dep) & Leicester 2003 (Piano 2/Accordion)
Fatale Bridewell Theatre, 2003 (Musical Director - Piano)
Cabaret Chichester Festival Theatre 2002 & 2002 (Piano/Keyboards/Accordion)
Blood Brothers UK Tour 2000 (Keyboards)
Sesame Street Live German Production 1999 (Production Musical Supervisor)
South Pacific UK Tour 1998 (Assistant MD/Cello)
Sweeney Todd Holland Park Theatre 1996 (Cello)
Great Expectations 2nd UK Tour 1996 (Musical Director - keys)
Me & My Girl UK Tour 1995 (Keyboards/Rehearsal piano)
Oklahoma UK Tour 1994 (Assistant MD/Cello)
Fiddler on the Roof London Palladium 1994 (Rehearsal Pianist)
The Sound of Music UK Tour 1993 (Assistant MD/Cello)
Annie Get Your Gun Prince of Wales Theatre & UK Tour 1992 (Assistant MD/Cello) Some Like it Hot Prince Edward Theatre & UK Tour 1991(On stage Pianist/Band leader)
The King & I Sadler’s Wells Theatre & UK Tour 1990 (Cello/rehearsal pianist)
Showboat London Palladium 1990 (dep. Cello)
South Pacific UK Tour 1989-90 (Cello & Rehearsal Pianist)
Fiddler on the Roof Plymouth Theatre Royal 1989 (Cello)
South Pacific Prince of Wales Theatre 1988 (Cello)

Orchestral Work
BBC Concert Orchestra - Extra Work
Trinity Laban Opera - Accordion for Premiere of ‘Banished’ Stephen McNeff
Southern Sinfonia
National Symphony Orchestra
Strand Musicians
Harrow Choral Society
Epsom Choral Society
British Philharmonic Concert Orchestra,
City Concert Orchestra,
Opera Project. – Celeste/2_ndpercussion for ‘Cunning Little Vixen’ Janacek Orchestra Sinfonica dell’Emilia-Romagna, Parma, Italy - Contract

TV & Recording Sessions
Album recording - Cello for ‘Valley of Song’ Ivor Novello 2014
Recording -cello for “Shaun’s Big Show” UK tour 2011
Cast album recording – Cello & Double bass for ‘Moon landing’ Stephen Edwards
ITV This Morning - Pianist for Christmas Name That Tune Quiz 2003,
BBC Born and Bred - Vocal overdub,
Rehearsal Pianist for Rod Stewart's Great American Songbook Vol 3
Titanic Town - piano overdub for overseas market
Cast album recording – ‘Some Like it Hot’ Piano/voice
MD of Musical theatre items for Children in Need,
Musical theatre items for: Jim’ll Fix it , London Tonight, Pebble Mill.

Cruise Ships
Borealis - Fred Olsen Cruise Line 2025 Reading pianist for band / cabaret guest entertainers Balmoral - Fred Olsen Cruise Line 2015 Piano MD Balmoral Orchestra

Corporate events & Residencies
Brasserie Zedel Piccadilly Circus, French accordion for special events 2013-17
Masterpiece Chelsea Hospital 2013 pianist at The Ivy bar, 2015 Pianist La Caprice
Chelsea Town Hall; Film Launch for Calendar Girls - piano
Natural History Museum: Pirelli Calendar Launch - piano
Heathrow Airport: String Quartet for Ralph Lauren Romance perfume launch
LWT Lily Savage - after-show hospitality for 'Lily Live' -piano
The Galtymore: Irish entertainment awards - piano
Aspinalls 10 year anniversary and New Years Eve –piano and vocals
QE2 Centre, Westminster –piano, The Talk of London- piano
Rags of Mayfair -piano
The Belvedere, Holland Park -piano
The Landmark Hotel -piano
Private rooms at The Savoy and Claridges –piano & string quartet
Rubens Hotel, Victoria (resident) -piano
Inter-Continental Hotels in Park Lane (resident) and Mayfair Keyboards& vocals for dinner dances The Millennium Gloucester Hotel –piano The Marriott Hotel County Hotel – piano

Concerts
Ballet Nights 2023–Lanterns Theatre Isle of Dogs- cellist for “The Dying Swan: ballerina Melissa Hamilton Daniel Koek Concerts UK venues & Pizza on the Park 2009-2010 Musical Director A Night at The Opera tours 2004-2008 with:
Jane Gilchrist & Denise Leigh, The Opera Babes, Wynne & Mark Evans. Cellist and fixer for string quartet
Masters of the Musicals & ‘Beyond Broadway’ for Calibre productions. Keys 2 UK theatres 2000-2008
Kim Criswell, Brighton Dome - Cello
Howard Keel, Dominion Theatre- Cello
Johnny Mathis UK Tour 1988- Cello

Music Examiner
For Trinity College London rock & pop syllabus - UK & Worldwide 2013 – present
Tours of: India, South Africa, Italy Singapore, UAE, Oman, Egypt

Teaching
Supply teacher Westminster Cathedral Choir School 2024
Visiting Musical Director Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts 2017
Supply Teacher for Reeson Education March 2013 - 2017
Head of Music St Louis International School, Milan Italy –2010-11
Lanterns School for the Performing Arts E14 - Head of Music (PT) 1996-2010
The Bridge Theatre Training Company, Camden – Musical Theatre singing tutor 1998-2002
Rose Bruford College – 2_ndYear Musical Theatre project 1999
1988 Music Teacher – secondary Plumstead Manor School London
Head of Music Marist Convent School Parsons Green –1984-86

Education
2003-04 MA – Master of Arts Institute of Education, University of London
1987-88 PGCE Goldsmith’s College, University of London
1980-84 GTCL Trinity College of Music London
1978-80 Accrington & Rossendale College _ GCSE’s ‘A’ level
1973-78 Paddock House Convent Grammar School – GCSE’s ‘O’ level

Qualifications
MA (music education) PGCE, GTCL, ARCM, LTCL

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Instruments
Cello, Accordion, Electric Cello, Keyboards, Musical Director, Piano