Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Septet in E-flat major, Op. 20 for clarinet, horn, bassoon, violin, viola, cello, and double bass
Musician Biographies
The OctoNove Ensemble is a new chamber music ensemble, featuring some of the finest amateur musicians in London.
Claire Maugham – violin – studied as a teenager with Frances Mason at the Royal College of Music, and then held a music scholarship while reading English at Cambridge University. In her working life she is a corporate affairs director, and alongside this plays in several non-professional London orchestras including Corinthian Chamber Orchestra and Fidelio Orchestra. Claire performs with chamber music groups regularly and returned to violin studies in 2022 with Callum Smart (RNCM/Carnegie Mellon University). She now studies privately with Charlie Lovell-Jones.
Rachel Solomon Williams – viola – is Executive Director of the Aldersgate Group, an environment policy-focussed alliance of major businesses.
Alison Atkinson – cello – works at the National Gallery where she manages the database of all customers, members and donors of the Gallery.
Jamie Parkinson – double bass – is a trade union official, a sender of emails and attender of meetings. He has now put too much time and effort into playing the double bass to be ready to reconsider whether that was a good idea.
Charlotte Woolley – clarinet – is a civil servant working for the Ministry of Defence, with responsibilities in the Defence nuclear research programme. She studied at Keble (2001-2009) and has a DPhil in Laser Physics.
Matthew Sackman – horn – spends his days telling computers what to do, and looking on in horror when they do exactly that. He spends his evenings doing much the same thing, but with his Horn.
Alex Moss - bassoon - studied at the Royal Northern College of Music and has worked with orchestras in the UK and Portugal, including Opera North, Hallé, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música. Alex is also a forensic accountant, specialising in international fraud investigations. He is proud of his long-standing association with Bromley Youth Music Trust, where he served as Chair of Trustees until 2024. He continues to perform with XBY Concert Band and South East London Orchestra.
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