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Stephanie Reeve - Director

Stephanie Reeve graduated from Trinity College of Music winning prizes for chamber music and woodwind performance. As a soloist and chamber musician she has given recitals, led workshops and provided background music at many venues all over the UK including Kensington Palace and No. 10 Downing Street. Stephanie has also worked as a session musician, played for many theatre productions including performances at the London Palladium and Theatre Royal Drury Lane and is principal clarinet of the Tempus Chamber Orchestra.

Stephanie teaches clarinet and saxophone at The Bishop's Stortford High School and for Cambridgeshire Music Service and has been assistant conductor of the Palace Band since 2002 taking over as principal conductor in 2008. She has worked as a coach for courses at Benslow Music Trust, Hitchin, and also in Wimbledon, Deal, Norwich and Ipswich and occasionally coaches Walden Winds.

Stephanie completed an MA in Psychology for Musicians in 2007 and as part of a final year dissertation compared the ways in which adults and children learn musical instruments. She continues to take an interest in the ways in which all ages learn musical instruments.

Rebecca Owen - Assistant Conductor and Chamber Music Coach

Clarinettist Rebecca Owen graduated from the Royal Academy of Music with Distinction in 2007 having prior completed her undergraduate degree at the Birmingham Conservatoire with First Class Honours and the BMus Course Prize. In 2006 Rebecca won First Prize in the Tunbridge Wells International Young Concert Artists Wind Section (TWIYCA) and in 2005 the First Prize in the Symphony Hall Recital Competition and the Silver Medal of The Worshipful Company of Musicians.

Rebecca has given solo and chamber music performances at a number of major venues in the UK including The Symphony Hall Birmingham; St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Royal National Theatre and Wigmore Hall in London; The Assembly Theatre, Royal Tunbridge Wells; and Colston Hall, Bristol. Rebecca was a member of the Festival Ensemble Stuttgart (FES) for two years, the Britten-Pears Orchestra, Southbank Sinfonia 2008 and is currently a member of the UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra, having played under the baton of Valery Gergiev, Sir Colin Davis, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Paavo Järvi, Mikhail Pletnev, Sir Andrew Davis, Charles Dutoit, Manfred Honeck, Gianandrea Noseda, Zubin Mehta, Essa-Pekka Salonen, Christoph Poppen and Hellmuth Rilling.

Rebecca enjoys a busy chamber music schedule as member of the Orsino Ensemble and Zonda Wind Quintet both of whom regularly give recitals in and around the London area. As well as teaching the clarinet to a number of private pupils, Rebecca also teaches at Kings College London and joined the Palace Band in 2006 as their chamber Music Coach and Assistant Conductor.

Caroline Franklyn - Founder, Assistant Conductor and Administrator

Caroline studied flute and piano at Trinity College of Music. For many years she worked as a freelance orchestral player, and solo performer, as well as teaching the flute. Caroline also specialised in chamber music, playing in several trios and wind quintets. She toured extensively in partnership with the renowned harpist, Sioned Williams. In 1993 she founded the Palace Band (details on Home page).

Caroline now concentrates on teaching in London and in Deal, and also on conducting and arranging/composing wind music. She is a regular tutor at Benslow Music Trust.

Caroline's compositions and arrangements are published by Spartan Press (www.spartanpress.com)

Four-part 'flexible' arrangements: The Agincourt Carol, More Madrigal Magic, King Arthur (Purcell) and The Hunt (Telemann).

Duets for beginner flute and clarinet with optional accompaniment: Two Boldly Blow.