Juliet Hughes-Rees - Leader

Juliet Hughes-Rees started playing the violin at the age of seven. After only four years she was awarded a government scholarship to study at the Purcell School. From 1991 she became a pupil of the internationally renowned teacher Itzhak Rashkovsky, and won a place to continue her studies with him at the Royal College of Music. Whilst there she was awarded several prizes, most notably the Woltmann Prize (for her outstanding contribution to the orchestral programme at the College), the Fred Brough Orchestral Leadership Prize and the Doris Gould Memorial Award. A Senior Exhibition enabled her to continue her studies as a post graduate during which time she performed many recitals and led all the college orchestras.

Juliet now follows a career combining performing and teaching. As a performer she has been offered solo engagements with orchestras all over the UK. Orchestrally her career is also building, having played in orchestras such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia and the London Soloists Chamber Orchestra. She is the leader of ‘Parnassus’, a fifteen-piece instrumental ensemble who have been together since 1999, and have performed both in London and abroad.

Her complete commitment to teaching is founded in the training she received herself. In 1999 she was appointed to the staff at Westminster School, and she combines this with private teaching. This work is combined with the coaching of chamber groups and orchestral string ensembles, including orchestras such as Hertfordshire and Derbyshire County Youth Orchestras, and the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. She also teaches at the Junior departments of the Royal College and Royal Academy of Music.

Marc Dooley
Musical Director

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