|
 Co-founder
of Anglia Concertante, principal cellist Glenis has had
musical links with King's Lynn for almost 30 years, starting
off as a teenager playing in the pit orchestra for West
Norfolk Gilbert and Sullivan Society at the old Lynn Arts
Centre. Born in Derbyshire Glenis is married to the deputy
editor of the Lynn News, Andrew, and the couple have one son
David - more about him later! Glenis studied at London's
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, winning the Guildhall
Cello Prize and the Jenny Hyman Memorial Prize for
outstanding solo and chamber music performance.
After
gaining an honours degree in music she went on to complete a
post-graduate performers' diploma and won a Shell/London
Symphony Orchestra scholarship to perform in a master class
with the LSO at the Barbican centre. She played
professionally full-time for a number of years while living
in London, working with, amongst others, the Orchestra of St
John's Smith Square and the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra.
She has also broadcast on Radios 2, 3 and 4 with The Salieri
Quartet and contemporary music group The Acrobats of Desire.
In the
1980s Glenis was a founder member and principal cellist of
the highly acclaimed King's Lynn-based Iceni orchestra. She
continues to perform solo and chamber music recitals
throughout the country and last summer played the complete
Vivaldi sonatas at the Lanchester Early Music Festival in
County Durham where she is a member of the chamber music
ensemble Hexham Collegium Musicum.
Glenis
currently teaches cello for Lincolnshire County Council and
runs an annual Cello Day in Spalding each summer which
attracts over 70 young performers aged between six and 18. |
