Hi, I’m Ruth
I’m a freelance animateur and bassoonist and currently work all over the United Kingdom.
Half English and half Venezuelan, I grew up in the Lake District, before studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and at Hamburg Hochschule für Musik und Theater.
In 2013 I was accepted onto the Spitalfields Music Animateur Trainee Scheme and now divide my time between my orchestral and education careers. My education work consists of presenting concerts and leading workshops. I love working with people and am passionate about classical music and making it accessible and fun for all.
Here are a few orchestras/ensembles for whom I have devised and presented family and/or schools concerts:
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Blackheath Halls Orchestra
Brandenburg Sinfonia
Britten Sinfonia
Cambridge Philharmonic
City of London Sinfonia
Deal festival
Ensemble 360/Music in the Round
Hallé
Hertford Symphony Orchestra
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
Royal Northern College of Music
Royal Northern Sinfonia
Southwell Festival
Todmorden Orchestra
Ulverston Music Festival
Welsh National Opera
And here are a few orchestras/ensembles for whom I have worked as a workshop leader:
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
BBC NOW
Britten Sinfonia
City of London Sinfonia
Music4life
National Children’s Orchestra
National Youth Orchestra
Northern Chords
Orchestra Vitae
Philharmonia
Royal Albert Hall- music and maths workshops
"A number of staff came to me after school to say that Ruth and Ben’s music workshops’s were the best we have had for a number of years."
David Wilson- the Dales School SEN
