Eloise Riddell

Double Bass

Professional Orchestral

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
BBC Concert Orchestra
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
London Concert Orchestra
Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra
London Contemporary Orchestra
Welsh National Opera
Opera North
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
The Street Orchestra of London: Principal
Belmont Ensemble
Cardiff Sinfonietta: Extra list
Eroica Ensemble
Outcry Ensemble: Principal and Tutti
Orpheus Sinfonia: Principal
The Little Orchestra
Janus Ensemble
London Haydn Project
Chimera Ensemble: Principal
The Light of Music Orchestra: Principal
Hampstead Garden Opera
Saffron Opera Group – Die Walkure
Giardino Strings
Amadeus Orchestra
Beckenham Chorale: Principal
Hammersmith Posk Opera
London Graduate Orchestra
LMA Orchestra
Coveryard Collective
London Symphony Orchestra String Scheme
Non-classical: Penderecki Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
Oxford Opera Company

Chamber Music

Temple Music Foundation: Quintet with Solo harp.
Scordatura: Women’s Music Collective: An ensemble championing music written by women (2017 onwards).
Trio Giocoso for Double Bass, Viola and Piano (2017).
Music for Double Bass ensemble alongside David Daly (2013-2017).

Recording Highlights

Conclave
One Life
Sigur Ros Album (2022)
All Quiet on the Western Front
Matrix Resurrection
Christopher Wood Album
Bastille Christmas Single
Overlord film
Alien Covenant
Roger Ballen’s ‘Theatre of Apparitions’ shown at Edinburgh International Film Festival (2016).

Orchestral Training

Britten Sinfonia Side by Side with Royal Academy of Music - Birtwistle Melancholia 1 (broadcast on Radio 3).
London Sinfonietta Side by Side with Royal Academy of Music - Stockhausen Gruppen (broadcast on Radio 3).
Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra - Principal.
Royal Academy of Music Concert Orchestra, Royal Academy of Music Manson Ensemble at British Film Institute and Wilton’s Music Hall, premiered a new score to Alfred Hitchcock’s The Pleasure Garden.

Solo

Solo and ensemble premieres by Michal Bylina, John Alexander and Armand Russell.
OperaUpClose Magic Flute R&D session.
Commissioned and premiered many solo works by Simon Garcia, Tony Osborne and Eric Funk

Outreach Experience

Guildhall School of Music and Drama Junior Department - Double Bass teacher
London Basses workshops, 2016 - current: run, organise and lead Double Bass workshops for children & adults
Creative Futures (2016-2018) Early Years music practitioner and worked with hearing impaired students at Oak Lodge School.
Croydon Alzheimer’s Society & Sunrise Purley Care Home: I co-led music workshops for adults living with Dementia
Spitalfield’s Music: worked on a project in a school as part of their Winter Festival with Julian West and Polly Beeson
English Touring Opera - projects including one in a special needs school working with Tim Yealland and Rachel Leech.
English Chamber Orchestra: mentoring Awards of Young Musicians students on Beethoven’s Septet.
Academy of St Martin in the Fields: worked with homeless adults in the West London Day Centre.
Open Academy Fellow 2014-2015

Education and Qualifications

Royal Academy of Music - MA Double Bass 2014, BMus (Hons) 2013 and Entrance Scholarship 2009
LRAM Teaching Diploma with Distinction 2012

Professors: Duncan McTier, Graham Mitchell and Rodney Stewart:
Masterclasses: Joel Quarrington, Bozo Paradzik, Matthew McDonald, Dominic Seldis, Dan Styffe, Corrado Canonici.

Double Bass: Chamber bass (dated 1814) by Thomas Kennedy.

Referees

Graham Mitchell
Tom Goodman

Additional Information:
Holds a Portugese citizen card and passport, so can work in the EU without a visa.

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Instruments
Double Bass