Music Staff
On each course,Wilma is delighted to be joined by either of the following experienced music staff who will coach and accompany the participants as well as teach some of the workshops.
Maltese pianist Geoffrey Tanti studied with Cynthia Turner before moving to Glasgow to study at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He studied with Jonathan Plowright and Julia Lynch and graduated with a Masters in Piano Performance with Distinction and a Masters in Repetiteur Studies. He also worked for a year as a Junior Fellow accompanist at the RCS.
Geoffrey has had many performing opportunities including performances of the Poulenc piano concerto with the RSNO and the Glasgow Orchestral society, and the Jolivet concertino for trumpet, piano and strings with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
Geoffrey leads a busy freelance career in the UK performing as soloist, accompanist, repetiteur and chamber musician and works regularly for Opera Bohemia, the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He performs regularly as part of the ‘Live Music Now’ series and has recently featured on the CD ‘Luminate –Live Music Now Scotland celebrates 30 years’ on Delphian records.
www.geoffreytanti.co.uk/
Claire Haslin (piano) comes from Glasgow, where she studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama with Jean Hutchison. There she won prizes for Solo and Chamber music, including the Peter Morrison Prize for All Round Excellence and represented the Academy in recital tours of Iceland and Russia. Claire then completed the Advanced Solo Studies course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, studying with Paul Roberts, and whilst there was chosen to represent the college in the Paxos Chamber Music Festival. In 1997 she won the prestigious Sir Henry Richardson Award for piano accompaniment, and she has subsequently performed throughout Britain and Europe, including at the Purcell Room (London), the Edinburgh Festival, the Montalcino Festival in Italy and the Queen’s Hall (Edinburgh).
Claire is very active both as an instrumental and song accompanist encompassing a wide variety of music, from accompanying Ann Murray at the Vivartes Festival in Surrey and Christine Cairns at an Opera Gala in Ayr, to touring Switzerland with a group of cabaret singers and playing chamber music recitals for music societies throughout Scotland, performing regularly as a member of Trio Ecossaise and the Kilnaish Duo, as well as accompanying Phil. Claire has been a staff repetiteur at Scottish Opera, a Crear Scholar, and holds accompaniment and teaching posts at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow University music department, and the music school of Douglas Academy, as well as accompanying the NYCoS Training Choir.