Learn more about Rachel’s creative work
Experience
Diploma level cellist (trained at RNCM Junior School and with Chris Hoyle and Heather Bills)
Experienced chamber music player: Cellist with trio and quartet performing at venues throughout North West England and Wales, and the only amateur musician to have played at 14 RNCM chamber music festivals. Also performed in Prague.
Training in physical theatre and clowning from Peta Lily, Desmond Jones and Rachel Caine
Public storytelling on arts and mental wellbeing for Heard Storytelling
Contemporary dance with KNT Danceworks, Manchester
Drystone waller - regular volunteer with Friends of the Lake District
Fluent French speaker (Swiss mother). Also competent German and basic Russian.
CREATIVE PORTFOLIO
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Being involved in drama as an isolated young carer saved my life, Guardian August 2019
Parkinson's Disease and Dance: "It keeps me alive", Guardian, November 18, 2018
Dance company helping youngsters with mental health problems, Guardian, October 2016
Art draws students to consider career in medicine, The Guardian, June 2017
Could music cut the cost of dementia care? The Guardian, February 2016
Chetham's School of Music, London launch brochure, September 2011
Gabor Takacs-Nagy on music and football - Gramophone Sept 2011
Flautist loses irreplaceable flutes in riots - Guardian August 14 2011
Dame Janet Baker on inspiration and teaching, Music Teacher, May 2008
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