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Caithness Girl To Play At The BBC Proms On TV 1
August
Carol Ella was born in Caithness in 1981. She attended St
Mary's Music School in Edinburgh where she was awarded the John Doig Award
for the Most Promising String Player. In 1999 she entered the Royal
College of Music as a Foundation Scholar, studying with Simon
Rowland-Jones. She graduated from the BMus course with First Class Honours
in 2003. While an undergraduate she received various prizes and
awards and has participated in many master-classes, most recently with the
Belcea Quartet at the Wigmore Hall and with Bruno Giuranna. In 2003,
during her postgraduate year at the RCM, she spent three months studying
in Utrecht as part of the Eerasmus scheme. She recently completed
her postgraduate year with Distinction. She plays a viola made by Nigel
Harris for which she acknowledges the generous support of the Virtuosi
Society of Scotland.
A keen orchestral musician, Carol has
been principal viola of the RCM Sinfonietta and RCM Symphony Orchestra and
has worked with international conductors including Bernard Haitink, Sir
Colin Davis, Michael Tilson Thomas, Lorin Maazel and the late Lord Yehudi
Menuhin. In her fourth undergraduate year she was selected for the
London Symphony Orchestrea's String Experience Scheme and was subsequently
awarded the annual Promis Award for outstanding participation.
Carol performed as a soloist with the
RCM Orchestra at the
Thaxted Festival on 2 July this year, playing Bartok's Viola Concerto.
For those of you who watch the BBC
Proms on television, Carol will play with the London Symphony Orchestra at
the Albert Hall on 1st August 2004.
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