MishMash Ensemble Tour 2023

Programme Notes

We hope you enjoyed our musical adventure exploring the magical world of the wind quintet. We loved sharing this wonderful music with you and have compiled some further information on the music, the composers and the performers. 

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About the performers:

Rosanna Ter-Berg: Flute and Piccolo
Rosanna studied at Leeds University, Strasbourg Conservatoire and Trinity Laban where she graduated with Distinction in her MMus and was a finalist in Trinity’s Isabelle Bond Gold Medal Competition. She is a multi-flautist, improviser, actor-musician and creative collaborator in Europe and beyond – working with some of the UK’s most renowned improvisers, chamber groups, contemporary music ensembles, orchestras and theatre companies. She is a founding member of the improviser’s collective Union Division and newly formed Brazilian band Olayá. As a soloist she has performed on radio, at festivals and at the UK’s most prestigious music venues including the Royal Albert Hall.  As musical director, Rosanna worked on Olivier Award winning production Emilia in London’s West-End. She has also devised a number of shows for young audiences including with London Rhymes and MishMash Productions, and presented classical shows for Aurora Orchestra as part of the Southbank Imagine Festival. 

Timothy Keasley: Oboe and Cor Anglais
Tim is an oboist and workshop leader based in Oxford. As an orchestral player, he has performed as Principal Oboe with English Touring Opera, Oxford Philharmonic and Southbank Sinfonia. He has also been broadcast as a concerto soloist on BBC Radio 3. He regularly leads creative projects for Wigmore Hall, the Royal Academy of Music and Southbank Sinfonia working with schools, care homes and early years settings. He has presented family concerts at the Queen Elizabeth Hall at the Southbank Centre, Wigmore Hall, and across the country with Street Orchestra Live in train stations, prisons, parks and libraries. 

Benjamin Garalnick: French Horn
At the age of 12 Benjamin started his journey in music through a charity scheme in North-East London. Now 15 years later, he has a fulfilling career in classical music both performing and educating in the communities that helped him on his own life path. Benjamin graduated from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in 2018 and a year later moved to Beijing to work with Orchestra Academia China where he featured on soundtracks for Chinese television and film. 

 Upon his return to the UK during the pandemic he has found freelance work with Orchestra of the Swan, guested with Southbank Sinfonia, and worked consistently with Chineke! performing with them for Netflix, TFL, Disney, and twice at The BBC Proms so far. Having led educational workshops with their ensemble, he quickly found a passion for educating. Benjamin is now a lead brass mentor with The Chineke! Juniors, Nucleo, and teaches with Hillingdon Music and Wandsworth Music Academy; organisations that are all aligned with his values.  

Daria Phillips: Bassoon
Daria began lessons on the mini-bassoon at the age of 7 as part of a council run project. She progressed through the various music ensembles within her borough before joining the music course at Junior Guildhall where she held the Bassoon Scholarship and, in her final year, received the Woodwind Prize. Daria has been invited to play with Chineke! Orchestra, an initiative that aims to promote diversity in classical music-making; on numerous concert tours and recordings. She was a Junior Artist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (2016-17) mentored by the principal bassoonist, Jonathan Davies. Daria studied in The Hague with Gretha Tuls. She is currently completing her Masters at Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Daria enjoys encouraging young musicians to explore the art form and regularly works as a music mentor with various organisations. She is delighted to be sharing the joy of music alongside her ever joyful MishMash family. 

Poppy Beddoe: Clarinets
Poppy studied Music at King's College London, followed by a Masters at the Royal Academy of Music. As a soloist and a chamber musician, Poppy performs extensively throughout the UK and internationally. In 2021 Poppy released her debut album, Soliloquy with Ulysses Arts which features her own transcriptions of Bach and Hildegard of Bingen. She is the Artistic Director of the Berkshire Chamber Music Festival and an annual concert series in the South of France, and is also the current Artist in Residence of the Clifton International Music Festival. 

In 2022 Poppy was a visiting artist at the University of Houston, Texas, where she gave solo recitals, a masterclass, premièred commissioned music, and gave lectures on her Bach transcriptions and building a freelance career. Recently she recorded a concerto written for her by Matthew Taylor with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales which will be broadcast on BBC Radio Three in 2023 and released on disc by Toccata Classics.  

About the creative team:

Sophie Rivlin: Associate Director
Sophie is a London-based cellist who works primarily as a chamber musician, touring widely across the UK and abroad.  Sophie has a particular interest presenting chamber music imaginatively to audiences via the means of theatrical concerts. Her work with MishMash started back in 2015 as a cellist in Hubbub: A Musical Adventure. Although still appearing on stage she is now also the company Creative Director as well as supporting new work as both Musical Director and Associate Director - including our recent coproduction in Sync with Scottish Ensemble. As part of an Arts Council England funded ‘Developing Your Creative Practice’ Award Sophie has recently completed the prestigious Jeunesse Oorkaan Academy training.

In addition to working with MishMash Sophie is a founding member of TROUPE who perform at venues including Wigmore Hall, Snape Maltings and in festivals such as Spitalfields, Oxford Lieder and the SESC Festival Música de Câmara in Brazil.

Alongside this chamber-music theatre work, Sophie plays regularly with various orchestras, contemporary music groups and chamber ensembles including the Oliveros Ensemble. She has also performed with dancers at venues such as the Place and Rich Mix and is featured on several best-selling recordings and on BBC Radio and television. Sophie has a keen interest in education work, teaching the cello and chamber music to students of all ages, doing workshops for orchestras such as ENO and the Aurora orchestra as well as founding the Singing Tree children's choir in Mumbai, India.

Sophie’s role in the production is to lead the programming (deciding what we play!) and guide the musicians in how best to present each piece for our young audience.

Liz Muge: Creative Producer
Liz Muge has worked in and around Music since graduating from Leeds University in 1999.  On discovering there wasn’t much need for second rate Oboists in the world she has focussed instead on bringing the best possible musical experiences to children and young people.  This journey has included spending time as the Education Director at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, a Regional Officer for charity Youth Music, the Chief Executive Officer of a small music charity Make Some Noise and more recently as Business Development Manager at the Nottingham Music Service. 

Liz is passionate about music and the impact great music can have on all people, particularly small people.  After 15 years working in Music Education, and following a period of research funded by Arts Council England, Liz established MishMash Productions in 2014 to create magical, original music for young audiences.

Liz’s role in the production is to recruit the performers, fix the tour dates and all the other organisational things as well as supporting Sophie with decisions around programme and presentation.