Concerts and festival performances have included the Barbican, Royal Festival, Queen Elizabeth and Wigmore Halls, Kennedy Centre, Washington and Merkin Hall, New York; Festivals include Cheltenham, Brighton, Montreux, Spoleto and Adelaide.

He has appeared with most of the BBC orchestras, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Hallé, Warsaw Philharmonic, Wiener Symphoniker, RAI Milano, RAI Napoli, Adelaide Symphony, New Zealand Symphony, Shanghai Symphony and more.

Dennis Lee has performed the entire Beethoven sonata cycle in France to wide acclaim. He is a Steinway artist and his recordings include works by Szymanowski on Hyperion/Helios CDH 55081, and Debussy on ICSM 007 and ICSM 015.

Dennis was an examiner for the Associated Board for over 30 years, and is also an adjudicator for The British and International Federation of Festivals.

Frith is career teacher with over 30 years’ experience of teaching singers of all abilities and over a wide age range. Her father was her first singing teacher, and her grandfather, a well-known violinist in his day, gave her her first piano lessons at the age of 6. Along with her two sisters, she competed successfully in competitions and festivals in Auckland, NZ, her home town, until she was 16.

In 1981 Frith went to Adelaide, South Australia and studied on the Diploma of Performing Arts (Opera) course, and in 1982 moved to the UK to study with David Harper. She won an Ian Fleming Award to help with her studies and was awarded three scholarships for courses with the Britten-Pears School, working with Peter Pears, Nancy Evans, Joan Cross, Jan de Gaetani and Graham Johnson. Frith performed in concert, opera, oratorio and street theatre in London for the next 7 years. Her teachers at this time included Janice Chapman, Paul Hamburger and David Pollard.

Her daughter was born in 1989 and her son in 1991. Frith was a stay-at-home mum for the next few years, but ran a Colourstrings Music Kindergarten while the children were small. Quite a few of the songs on the Colourstrings recordings are sung by her daughter, Holly! Frith is indebted to the British Voice Association and the courses that it has run over the last 20 years or so for introducing her to voice science, and she is pleased to have been a Director of the BVA from 2010 to 2015.

She is a Singing Teacher with the Junior Dept of the Royal College of Music and has been Teacher, Teacher in Residence and Auditions Panelist with the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain. She teaches singing at St Paul’s Girls’ School in Hammersmith and runs a thriving private practice. Frith’s teaching is based on a physiologically informed way of thinking about how voices works. This model is constantly changing to include new developments, and while this work is challenging it is also enormously exciting. Accent Method breathing is core to her work, and her major influences are Janice Chapman (overall teaching model), Thomas Hixon and Ron Morris (respiratory function), Jo Estill (initial research into laryngeal function in singing) and Gillyanne Kayes (Singing and the Actor, ongoing training courses).

Frith enjoys writing about singing and has had articles published in Music Teacher, in BBC Music magazine and in Communicating Voice, the magazine of the BVA.

Frith is excited to have begun studies on a two-year M Ed at the Royal College of Music in September 2020.

Fiona is Lead Tutor for Strings at Trinity Laban Junior Conservatoire, a Lecturer for Royal Conservatoire Scotland Dumfries House Project, and a member of the RCS Junior Department Strings Faculty.

She has a passion for music in all forms; combining a busy career as a performer with writing creative and collaborative national and international performance projects.
She is a founder member of National Youth Orchestra Scotland and an alumnus of Junior RSAMD and St Mary’s Music School, Edinburgh. On leaving St Mary’s she trained at the Royal Scottish Academy in Glasgow and the Royal Academy of Music in London.

Whilst a specialist tutor of violin at the Junior Guildhall School of Music she became a proactive member of the school’s external examination and development team. She also lectured and was a professor at Colchester Institute, Goldsmith’s College, visiting tutor for National Children’s Orchestra and Head of Strings for London Borough of Bexley.

In 2005 Fiona co-founded and was course director for a collaborative venture with the Dartington International Summer School, the Dartington Plus Summer Youth Strings Programme. She subsequently founded and is Creative Director of SouthWest Camerata and the registered charity JUTPMUSIC whose work was nominated for a Royal Philharmonic Society for Education and a cover story for ESTA. Her ensembles are frequent performers at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and make regular concert appearances across the UK.

She has been a visiting professor of violin at Dartington College and Cardiff University, lectured for the European String teachers Association, Cardiff University, South West Sound and U3A. Her string quartet are recording artists featuring regularly in shows for BBC TV.

Having practised Mindfulness for most of her professional life, Fiona has gained accreditation from the Youth Mindfulness Kids Training Programme and has developed a series of workshops and seminars for Musical Mindfulness, delivering seminars on Mindfulness for Performers and Educators on behalf of the British and International Federation of Festivals at Music EXPO 2016, and the Federation Conference in Edinburgh also at Cardiff University, Trinity Laban Junior Conservatoire, Musicians Union, IAPS, and the Chipping Norton Festival.