Amanda has appeared extensively as a soloist with orchestras across London and the South-East, performing works by Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Sibelius, Vaughan Williams, Prokofiev, Ravel and Sarasate. She has given recitals for Hitchin Music Matters, the Treasury Music Society and Catford Arts Festival.

Amanda also enjoys sailing and swimming in the North Sea, and is currently learning to kitesurf.

 

 

We are delighted to welcome Amanda Lake to the  Pelly Concert Orchestra as our new 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 is in demand as a chamber and orchestral musician.  She leads the Alea Quartet as well as being a member of the Prince Consort Ensemble. She has given performances with these groups in Downing Street, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster Cathedral and Winchester Cathedral, as well as touring the United States of America and appearing in Aberystwyth MusicFest and the Harmos Festival in Portugal. Amanda was invited to lead the RCM Chamber Orchestra under Sir Roger Norrington at the opening night of the festival “The Power of Mozart”.   

 

She has also led the Amadeus Orchestra and the Dmitri Ensemble.