Steel City Strings

Angela Swift : Angela began playing the violin at a Sheffield School at the age of eight and started playing in orchestras and ensembles in the Sheffield area soon after. As well as being a very experienced violinist with over thirty years of playing under her belt, Angela has taught violin and viola in many schools throughout Sheffield and North East Derbyshire as well as teaching the violin privately. She can be seen playing the violin regularly in various orchestral concerts around Sheffield as well as with the Steel City Strings Quartet.





		Musicians

				Angela Swift : Angela began playing the violin at a Sheffield School at the age of eight and started playing in orchestras and ensembles in the Sheffield area soon after. As well as being a very experienced violinist with over thirty years of playing under her belt, Angela has taught violin and viola in many schools throughout Sheffield and North East Derbyshire as well as teaching the violin privately. She can be seen playing the violin regularly in various orchestral concerts around Sheffield as well as with the Steel City Strings Quartet.






				Felicity Clement : Felicity began studying the violin age 9 and quickly became involved with the Sheffield music community, working her way up through the schools orchestras, then the City of Sheffield Youth Orchestra and, after graduation, the Sheffield Symphony Orchestra. She studied solo violin with Bridget King and later, Nina Martin. She also attended the Sheffield Music School, giving her opportunities to participate in a wide variety of instrumental ensembles. These opportunities widened further whilst attending Cambridge University, where as well as performing regularly in chamber orchestras for Clare College, Fitzwilliam College and Jesus College, Felicity was a founding member of the Cambridge University Baroque Ensemble, had the chance to work with John Rutter, and even to perform Schostakovich’s piano quintet in G minor for his widow, Irina Schotakovich as part of a festival of his music. She regularly plays in different ensembles around Sheffield.











				David Willington : After studying at Oxford where he held the organ scholarship at St Edmund Hall and directed a number of choirs and orchestras, David's career took him to Sri Lanka where he was principal viola of the Lanka Philharmonic and Opera Lanka. Since returning to the UK he has played with a variety of orchestras around the country but now concentrates on chamber music, and in particular the string quartet repertoire.


				Lucy Wallace : Since graduating in 2009 with First Class Honours in Music from the University of Sheffield, Lucy has performed with a number of orchestras across Yorkshire and Lancashire, a variety of strings ensembles, as part of a pit orchestra for musical theatre productions, and on a number of recording sessions for local artists. She has studied under a number of prestigious musicians, and participated in master classes with the likes of Bernard Gregor-Smith and Matthew Barley. She is a Wider Opportunities music leader and specialist cello teacher for Sheffield Music Service, as well as helping run various youth orchestras in Sheffield. Lucy is also a tutor for The Music Academy, specialising in chamber music performance, including string quartets and trio sonatas, theory and musicianship. As well as music-making, Lucy also enjoys a perfect cup of tea along with a couple of chocolate digestive biscuits.