Pelly Concert Orchestra

 

 

We are very fortunate to have the brilliant young violinist, Amanda Lake, as our dedicated Leader.  

After pleading with her parents for eighteen months, Amanda began learning the violin with Patricia Calnan, at the age of four. Having studied with Marius Bedeschi for eight years, Amanda recently graduated from the Royal College of Music with a First, where she was a scholar in the class of Dona Lee Croft. She is now undertaking further studies with Levon Chilingirian and Bela Katona.

 

Amanda has appeared as a soloist with orchestras including the New Mozart Orchestra (Vivaldi Spring), Camden Chamber Orchestra (Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 2, Sibelius Violin Concerto), and the Dal Segno Orchestra (Bach Concerto for Two Violins with Gonzalo Accosta).  She led the Amadeus Orchestra on tour to China in 2009-2010, where she performed Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending. As a member of the Alea Quartet, Amanda performed at the Purcell Room as part of the Park Lane Group’s Maxwell Davies Quartet Cycle in 2009. She has undertaken freelance work with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Gulbenkian Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and City of London Sinfonia. She has recently been accepted on to the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Foyle Future Firsts scheme.