Aldeburgh Music

Aldeburgh Young Musicians has been delivering its specialist programme of music training and creative deveopment since 2007. With availability for only 45 students each year, the competition for places is very strong. This means that being able to say you were an Aldeburgh Young Musician is rare and highly prized.

On this page you will find information on former AYMs, including what they worked on and achieved during their time as an Aldeburgh Young Musician, where they progressed on to after leaving us and what they are doing now.

Harriet Caddick

Harriet joined Aldeburgh Young Musicians in 2007 and left in the summer of 2010. Her principal study instrument whilst an AYM was the violin, though she also played piano, sang and was involved in all sorts of activities. 

Harriet took part in a total of 11 AYM courses and got the opportunity to work with Jason Lai, Alex Wilson, Matthew Barley, Jan Hendrickse, Anton Lukoszevieze, Noam Greenberg and Paul Griffiths among others. During her time at AYM Harriet also studied at the Junior Department of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, was a member of the National Youth Chamber Orchestra, the Cambridgeshire County Youth Choir and performed as a piano soloist.
Since leaving AYM Harriet has gone on to Magdalen College Oxford to read French and Italian, where she hopes to keep up her playing and singing. Harriet loved her time as an AYM and is going to really miss it!
 
 

James Leveridge

Originally a violinist with the Ipswich Suzuki Group, James took up the drum kit and piano aged 12, which led to his interest in percussion. He joined Aldeburgh Young Musicians in July 2008. In February 2009, he played percussion and drum kit in the first performances of Anna Meredith’s opera Tarantula In Petrol Blue at Snape Maltings Concert Hall.

He also enjoyed premiering Charlie Piper’s new percussion quartet, Stretch, in October 2009 with the AYM percussionists. In March 2010, as part of the AYM Percussion Quartet, Jignesh, James performed in the Clore Ballroom at The Southbank Centre as part of Sound Moves, celebrating excellence in Music and Dance. He also performed with other AYM’s in RE:Sounding Motion in the Royal Festival Hall as part of the same event. In total James took part in 22 courses, weekends and performances with AYM!
During his time as an AYM James was also a member of Suffolk Youth Orchestra, Suffolk Youth Wind Band, The Ipswich Orchestral Society, The Woodbridge Choral society and many other groups and ensembles.
Since leaving AYM James has joined the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he continues his studies as a percussionist. You can find out more about what James is currently doing here

Tom Rose

Former Aldeburgh Young Musician Tom Rose from Suffolk has grown up with Aldeburgh Music. He began working on projects run by the Aldeburgh Education department even before the Young Musician programme had begun. Once he joined AYM his Individual Learning Plan coordinated monthly lessons with composers, Joseph Phibbs, Huw Watkins and Larry Goves. 

At Aldeburgh, he had the opportunity to learn and develop his compositional technique through experimentation and hearing what wrote, revise it, re-write and work directly with individual players on our intensive courses. In 2008 he won the Guardian/BBC Proms Young Composers’ Competition with Moth Lamp for winds, percussion, piano and strings – a piece written initially for fellow AYMs. In total Tom took part in 22 AYM courses and through these had the chance to work with Alex Wilson, Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Matthew Barley, Anton Lukoszevieze, Oliver Coates and many more. Tom will become an undergraduate at the Royal Northern College of Music in September 2010. To hear Tom's current work, and find out more about what he's doing now click here

To hear Tom's composition "Moth Lamp", which went on to win the BBC Proms Young Composers Competition in 2008, performed by AYM students during the course when it was written please click the link below