Aldeburgh Music

Freya Aquarone, 18, Norfolk - Alto Saxophone 
Freya is 18 and has been playing saxophone for 6 years. She lives in Norfolk and goes to the Norwich School sixth form where she plays 1st tenor sax in the senior jazz band. She is also part of a jazz quintet. In 2010 Freya applied for grant money for a new sax from a variety of organizations, receiving a Robert-Lewin scholarship of £1,500 from Awards for Young Musicians and also generous amounts from The Nichol-Young foundation and the E.B. Wrightson Trust with which she bought a Yanigasawa alto sax. Through Aldeburgh Young Musicians (AYM), Freya has had the opportunity to work with some fantastic musicians, including having master-classes with the saxophonist John Miles. Earlier in 2011, Freya played was part of Virtual 
Airport project at the Southbank centre created by cellist Oliver Coates. Though originally a jazz player, experiencing a huge range of genres through AYM has meant Freya is now hugely interested in experimental, contemporary classical and also folk music. In her free time Freya enjoys politics, drama, and
environmentalism, currently co-running her sixth form green committee.

Henry Barraclough, 18, Cambridgeshire - Electric Guitar
Henry lives in Cambridge and has been playing ‘cello since the age of 6, piano since he was 8 and guitar since the age of 11. He has picked up other instruments along the way such as drums and bass and wants to learn flugelhorn to develop his jazz side. Henry plays guitar and sings in a rock band called ‘Injera’ that has been playing in and around Cambridge for 3 years. He has a passion for composition and music technology and hopes to exercise it in all genres of music at AYM.
 

Áine Begley, 16, Suffolk - Violin
Áine Begley (violin) Aine is 15 years old and lives in Suffolk. She started the violin six years ago studying the Suzuki method. Roger Owen is her teacher but she has also had tuition from Caroline Hutchinson. She is now studying for her grade 8 ABRSM. Aine attends Farlingaye High School in Woodbridge and is entering her second year of GCSE’s. She recently started the piano with Val Shelly. Aine was part of Suffolk Young Strings for two years and is now a member of the Suffolk Youth Orchestra. Aine has recently been on a music tour to Belgium and Holland with the Orchestra. She also took part in her school Sinfonia music tour to Tuscany. Every summer Aine takes part in a Suzuki course, the past two years have been at Riddlesworth, Diss. Last February Aine took part in a Junior Music Works course in Lewes where she enjoyed working in quartets. On the first Sunday of every month Aine plays at church. Aine‘s other hobbies include swimming and she has been involved in the Riding for the Disabled as part of the D of E award.

Hannah Brock, 12, Cambridgeshire - Guzheng
Hannah was born in Cambridge in July 1999 – the daughter of a Chinese mother and British father. Between the ages of 2 and 9 she lived in Beijing where musical talent was encouraged by her nursery school. She started playing the drums at age 3 ½ progressing to the Guzheng (an ancient Chinese instrument) and piano at 4 years old.
Hannah currently plays Guzheng at grade 10 level and piano and drums at grade 5 level. After returning to the UK in 2009, she continued to study the Guzheng – using modern technology to the fullest by taking lessons over the internet with her old teacher in Beijing. Hannah is also a singer and was a member of the International Festival Choir in Beijing. Since she was 4 Hannah has given many public performances. She played the drums at Chaoyang Theatre in Beijing for International Women’s Day, for Chinese Liberation Army’s Day, and for the Beijing International Car Exhibition in 2006. A 10 minute TV interview about her drumming was made and broadcast by Beijing CCTV on International Children’s Day in 2007. Hannah won the first British School of Beijing 2007 Instrumental Competition with her Guzheng and received a Highly Commended prize in the strings section (10-12 years old) of the Cambridge Young Musician of the Year Competition 2010. In September 2011 she joined Perse Girls where she has been awarded a music 
scholarship.