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Hannah Condliffe is a first class graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, having been awarded a Regency Award, the University of London Scholarship, Paton Award and Nicholas Blake Memorial Prize Scholarship. In 2019, Hannah won the Munster Trust Neil Black Prize, given annually to an outstanding woodwind player.
Hannah has played guest principal oboe with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Aurora Orchestram Royal Northern Sinfonia, English Chamber Orchestra and Ulster Orchestra. She also freelances with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Royal Opera House. As a Munster Trust Recital Artist, solo playing also forms a large part of of Hannah’s career; she has performed as a concerto soloist namely with the European Union Chamber Orchestra, also regularly hosting recitals around the UK.
Scottish-Dutch pianist Anna Michels has performed internationally as a soloist and chamber musician. She was one of the first students to be awarded a double bachelor degree from Maastricht Conservatoire in the Netherlands, studying both piano and music theory. Anna graduated from her Masters and Artist Diploma at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland with Head of Keyboard Aaron Shorr.
Anna has performed major piano concertos with numerous Scottish and Dutch orchestras, including the Maastricht Academic Chamber Orchestra, Conservatorium Maastricht Symphony Orchestra and Falkirk Tryst Orchestra. Alongside her various chamber groups, she has won prizes at the International Anton Garcia April Chamber Music Competition, the International Swedish Duo Competition, the Scando Vocallis Lied Duo Competition, and the Elgar Spedding Memorial Lied Competition.
Anna has an interest in unearthing hidden treasures of the classical repertoire, with a focus on Scottish composer Ronald Center. This has culminated in giving lecture-recitals internationally, including at the London International Piano Symposium and Musica Scotica Conference.
Anna founded the “Ad Libitum Collective”, an ensemble at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland that explores the possibilities of free improvisation. The group collaborates closely with dancers, and this led to a multidisciplinary performance as part of the annual Piano Festival at RCS. As a solo improviser, she represented the RCS at the METRIC Improvisation Conference in Leipzig this year.
She currently teaches at St Mary’s Music School in Edinburgh, where she holds the position of Keyboard Faculty Assistant. Anna is a recipient of the Cross Trust and was awarded the Falkirk Civic Trust “Young Personality of the Year”.
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