PROFESSORS & TUTORS
Professor Leonid Kerbel teaches at the Royal College of Music, and the Royal Conservatoire of Brussels, Belgium. He performs regularly in Western and Eastern Europe and the United States as soloist, concertmaster, and chamber musician. He has recorded for BRTN, RTBF and National Radio. In 1999 he founded Musica Mundi, an international chamber music course and festival for young talented musicians. He is also one of the judges of the Wieniawski International Violin Competition.
Susie Meszaros is a professor at the Royal College of Music and Royal Northern College of Music. She made her Wigmore Hall debut with Yehudi Menuhin. She won a Gold Medal at the Royal Overseas League Competition and was a finalist for the BBC Young String Musician of the Year. Susie is also co-founder and co-founder of the Villiers Piano Quartet and spent many years as leader at Kent Opera House.
Gaby Lester, Professor of Violin and Associate Director of Strings at the RCM, was born in London and studied at the Wycombe Abbey School of Music, the Royal Academy of Music and the Mozarteum Salzburg. At the invitation of Sir Simon Rattle, she became second violinist of the European Chamber Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Catalonia Youth Orchestra and Spanish National Youth Orchestra.
Uruguayan-born violinist Gonzalo Acosta graduated from the Royal College of Music, RCM. He first served as second violinist of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 21, and then became deputy concertmaster of the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra led by Sir Simon Rattle, and later served as deputy concertmaster of the English National Opera.
Gonzalo served as violin, chamber music and orchestra instructor at King's Junior School for 13 years. He currently teaches in the Junior Department of Guildhall Conservatory of Music and has been Head of Strings at Wycombe Abbey Abbey for four years.
TUTORS TEAM
Violinist Sherry Shen is the founder of Sherry Music Academy. She received a master's degree in violin from the RCM in 2020, having formed the Aeolian Quartet and Duo Inspiro, and performed any concerts. As well as in the UK, Sherry has performed in France, Spain, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Sherry Music Academy was established in London in 2021 as an education charity. It has successfully organized 10 concert-based events, including summer camps, training camps and other music activities.
Italian violinist Emma Arizza is the winner of the 2019 Musicians’ Company Award competition. She graduated with honors from the RCM in 2019, now performing regularly as soloist and with various orchestras throughout Italy and the UK. She was elected to the Musicians' Club Division Young Artist Program, received the Gladys Bratton and Alan Nickok Scholarships, and earned a Master's degree at Trinity Laban Conservatory of Music.
Reonel (Ray) Rafols is a Filipino-American violinist with a Bachelor of Music in Music Performance from Florida State University and a Master of Music from Guildhall. He has performed with various orchestras and ensembles in the United States and the UK, and is an experienced music educator. In addition to classical music, Ray explores his musical interests as a jazz violinist and singer on various London music stages, and is actively involved in music education, both privately and as a public school teacher.
Ludovico Colombo is an Italian cellist who graduated from the Italian Conservatoire in Switzerland and received a Master's degree in Music Education from Trinity Laban College. Ludovico is familiar with the Suzuki method and is a teacher with rich experience who is passionate about teaching. He is also a chamber musician who has performed in many prestigious London venues, and his Metamorfosi Piano Quartet was rated as outstanding by the Carne Trust.
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Pianist James Liu, who lives in the UK, holds a doctorate in concerto piano performance from the Royal College of Music and currently works there as an artistic instructor. James was employed by Xinghai Conservatory of Music, and won the title of Leeds Lieder Young Artist. He was also Second prize winner in the Lies Askonas competition. His students have won places in well-known domestic and foreign music schools such as RCM, RNCM, Sichuan Conservatory of Music, and the Central Conservatory of Music Gulangyu Piano School.