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Past Students
Past students of the Young European Strings School of Music
1988 - 2009:
- 60 students have achieved Associated Board Grade 8s, - of which 50 distinctions
- 17 students received Advanced Certificates; these are now called Diplomas of the ABRSM (Associated Board of The Royal Schools of Music)
- 10 students received Licentiates of the ABRSM (the most prestigious licentiate in the English-speaking world)
- 62 students received First Prizes at the Dublin Feis Ceoil
- 2 students received LTCLs
- 4 students graduated B. Mus. The latest in June, 2006 – Lynda O’Connor, First Class B. Mus.
International Prizes:
- Catherine Leonard is First Prize Winner of the Bank of Ulster and Lambert Award of 1994; Third Prize winner of the Kulenkampff, Hannover International Violin Competition of 1994 and a finalist of the Scheveningen International Violin Competition. She holds the “Bob Christensen Chair” as Principal Violinist with the California-based chamber ensemble “Camerata Pacifica”. Catherine lives in London and enjoys an international career.
- Gwendolyn Masin was a finalist in the Baroness Jordens Competition in The Hague, won numerous 1st prizes in Switzerland and South Africa and all the major Feiseanna Competitions in Ireland. She gained her degrees in London, Berne and Lübeck. She divides her time between Dublin and Switzerland, travelling frequently to concert locations around Europe where she enjoys an extensive career both as a soloist and chamber musician. She is currently writing a thesis on established schools and contemporary violin teaching at Trinity College, Dublin. She is founder and artistic director of the In Search of Lost Time series (est. 2004), the Gaia Chamber Music Festival (est. 2006) and is the artistic director of the Carrick Water Music Festival since 2007. “Michaela’s Music House” her treatise on violin pedagogy for young children is published in 2009.
- Dara Daly partook in the International Violin Competition in Novosibirsk in 1995. She is also a finalist of the 1993 E.B.U. Competition in Vienna and holds a B. Mus. from Manchester. Dara is now a full-time member of the Irish Chamber Orchestra.
- Gina Maria McGuinness won 1st Prize in Tallinn, Estonia in 1998, and was a finalist in Schöntal, Germany in 2001. She was invited by the Estonian Philharmonic Orchestra to perform as a soloist in Tallinn for three concerts, one of which at the opening of Tallinn’s brand-new concert hall October, 2006. From September 2007 she will be furthering her music studies in Lübeck, Germany and Chicago, USA with violinist Shmuel Ashkenasi.
- Ruth Gibson, violist, is a finalist of the 2004 International ESTA String Competition.
- Lynda O’Connor won the Clandeboye Music Prize, organised by Camerata Ireland in 2005. She was accepted as a violin student of the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, USA in 2008.
- David Tobin, at the age of ten, won Third Prize in the 2005 Bucharest International Violin Competition.
- Phoebe White, at the age of ten, won Third Prize in the International Noor Young Musician violin competition in Tallinn, Estonia, in 2007.
Professional musicians
- David O’Doherty (B. Mus. Perf.) - lives in Lausanne, where he is a member of the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, and in Dublin where he is lecturer at the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama
- Cliodhna Ryan (B. Mus. London) - lives in Ireland and is a full-time member of the Irish Chamber Orchestra
- Lucy Perkins (Trinity degree) - is a member of the RTE Concert Orchestra
- Niall O’Brien (LRSM and B. Mus.) – is a full-time member of Leeson Park Music School
- Christian Tecklenborg - teaches full-time in Dublin at Newpark School of Music
- Niamh Nelson - is a full-time member of the RTE National Symphony Orchestra
- Emma Montonen (LRSM) - is a full-time teacher and lives in Sutton, Dublin
- Yvonne Bolger - teaches full-time at Alexander Girls High School
- Debby France - is a teacher in Rennes, France
- Micheline Kinsella (B. Mus.) - has travelled abroad to further her studies
- Lynda O’Connor - finished her B. Mus. in Dublin and is a student of Southern Methodist University, Dallas, since 2008
- Ruth Gibson - continues her music studies at the Royal Northern College of Music as of September 2005
- Emer Kinsella - has successfully auditioned at the Royal College of Music in London and will continue her music studies there as of September 2005
- Hanora Farrell (B. Mus.) - is a professional violist living in London
- Martia Malherbe - is a professional violist in the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra since September 2007
The YES Chamber Orchestra have given countless concerts over the years as well as having made three CD recordings all of which are available in good music stores.
Master Classes:- 12 International Master Classes organised by YES in Budapest and Waterford.
The 2000 International FORUM where seven nation representatives talked about the music scene in their own country.
The following are all past students:
- John Wille, Professor at the University of Bloemfontein, South Africa
- Kees Bakels, world renowned conductor, Bierbeek, Belgium
- Leo Luyendijk, Cape Town, South Africa
- Camilla Driver, violist, Cape Town, South Africa
- Ursula Wittenberg, Cape Town, South Africa
- François Voges, teaching Somerset-Wes, Die Kaap, South Africa
- Annette Liebenberg, Riebeek-Kasteel, South Africa
- Lisa Garson, Cape Town, South Africa
- Anisa Bhettay, Cape Town, South Africa
- Paul Theron, Cape Town, South Africa
- Gary Doel, Cape Town, South Africa
- Sean Doel, Cape Town, South Africa
- Nicole Doherty, Cape Town, South Africa
- Charles Richards, Cape Town, South Africa
- Kristy Collette, Cape Town, South Africa
- Aidan Sylvester, Cape Town, South Africa
- Gisela Hans, B. Mus., Royal Scottish Academy of Music, Glasgow, Scotland
- Anouk Espri, B. Mus., Cape Town, South Africa
- Orit Feldman, Cape Town, South Africa
- Sonja Rohde, Cape Town, South Africa
- Jenny Brown, Cape Town, South Africa
- Elenor Speir, Cape Town, South Africa
- Danuta Prati Beton, violin Professor at the Conservatoire de Metz, France
- Esther Mefano, member of l´Orchestre de Paris, France
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