Curriculum Vitae - Sarah Elizabeth Jeffery

Sarah Elizabeth Jeffery

Reinier Claeszenstraat 5/2

1056 WC Amsterdam

The Netherlands

Telephone: (+31) 6107 53384 (NL), (+44) 77 38583 019 (UK)

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Website: www.sarahjeffery.com

Date of Birth: 30th July 1985 in Liverpool, England.

2009 : / Awarded the Countess of Munster Musical Scholarship. Finalist in the Julius Isserlis Scholarship Competition. Concerts in the Netherlands and Poland with contemporary recorder duo ake.taki. Collaboration and improvisation concert with percussionist Piotr Sutt. Composition and premiere of a new work Prece, for recorders, voices and electronics. Development of the electronic musical collective Badger Underground.
2008 : / Founding of contemporary recorder duo ake.taki. Performances of a new arrangement and staging of Mozart’s opera Die Zauberflöte. Performances as concertmaster of Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas. World premiere of contemporary opera Medea by Tania Sikelanou. Three concert tours of the UK with the Birmingham Folk Ensemble. Recording of an album Based on a True Story with The Old Dance School. Tutor of recorder, whistle and dance on the FolkWorld course at the Dartington Summer School.
2007 : / Graduated from Birmingham Conservatoire with a first class honours degree. Concert tours of the UK with The Constance Consort and Birmingham Folk Ensemble. BBC radio interviews and television appearances with ensemble The Old Dance School. Performances of Handel’s opera King Arthur in Devonshire. Solo concerts of recorder and live electronics in England and Holland.
Began recorder studies at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, under the tuition of Jorge Isaac and Paul Leenhouts. Began second study of the Indonesian Gamelan, under the tuition of Elsje Plantema.
2006 : / Winner of the Birmingham Conservatoire Recorder Prize. Finalist in the Doris Newton Music Prize. Finalist in the ERTA Consort Competition. Ensemble in residence at the Woodhouse Recorder Summer School with The Constance Consort. World premiere of Gamelbati - a concerto for gamelan and chamber orchestra by Tazul Tajuddin. Performances of Matthew Locke’s opera Psyche in the Crescent theatre, Birmingham.
Private lessons with Julien Feltrin, Royal College of Music.
2005 : / Performances of Purcell’s opera The Fairy Queen in the Crescent theatre, Birmingham. Attained DipABRSM in recorder performance, with distinction. Began studies of live electronics and electro-acoustic music.
2004 : / Concert tour of the Netherlands. Renaissance consort music for a series of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night at The Merlin Theatre, Sheffield.
Began second study of the Indonesian Gamelan, under tuition of Jonathan Roberts.
2003 : / Concert tour in Germany and Luxemburg.
A levels in music, biology and chemistry. Began recorder studies at Birmingham Conservatoire, under the tuition of Ross Winters and Annabel Knight.
2002 : / Winner of the Recorder Open Solo and Recorder Consort prizes, Derbyshire Arts Festival. Concert tour of Belgium.

1995 – 2003: Leader of the Derbyshire Youth Recorder Consort, including performances at The Assembly Rooms and the Guildhall. Regular participation in competitions.

Masterclasses with Dan Laurin, Anneke Boeke, Jean-Pierre Boullet, Katriina Boosey, Rebecca Austen-Brown, and Louise Bradbury.