BIO
Joe studied cello, piano, composition, improvisation and music theory at the Royal College of Music Junior Department with the support of a Tsukanov Scholarship and the Wolfson Music Award. He then studied music at the University of Oxford, where he won the Fitzgerald Prize and an academic scholarship and graduated with a Double First.
Joe has given concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, St Paul's Cathedral, Blenheim Palace, the Stauffer Academy. In 2018, he played a cello solo for Felicity Jones' wedding. He has featured in masterclasses with Yo-Yo Ma, Dave Holland, Mario Brunello, Natalie Klein, Mäts Lidstrom, Bojan Cicic, and Laurence Cummings.
Joe has been teaching for over a decade and is passionate about passing on his knowledge to the next generation in an effective, accessible way. His teachers include Hannah Roberts, Jonathan Manson, Guy Johnston, Alexander Boyarsky, (cello); Yoko Ono, Charlotte Tomlinson, Marie-Noelle Kendall (piano); Robert Saxton, David Sutton-Anderson (composition.)
Recommendations
Upcoming performances
20 Jan, King's College Chapel, Cambridge
Tippett: A Child of Our Time
https://www.cmp.cam.ac.uk/events/event/item/a-child-of-our-time-with-martyn-brabbins-cambridge-university-orchestra-chamber-choir-members-of-the-choirs-of-clare-gonville-caius-jesus-selwyn-and-sidney-sussex-colleges/
4 Feb, l'Eglise Saint Louis de Fontainebleau, Paris
Beethoven String Quartet No. 7 in F major, Op. 59/1
Haydn String Quartet in A major, Op. 20/6
Get in Touch
Interested in lessons? Send me an email or call me to find out more.
(My weekday evening and weekend slots are almost full)
