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Robert Scamardella returns to St Bede's
26 September 2008
BBC Young Musician of the Year finalist and former St Bede's student, Robert Scamardella, has returned to the School to join the staff in the newly refurbished music department.Robert will be teaching the emerging young talent at the School and coaching GCSE and A-Level musicians in a wide range of performances.
Robert has returned to St Bede's with a fine musical pedigree. Over the past seven years he has worked with many eminent musicians including Stephen Kovacevich, Imogen Cooper and Paul Lewis, as well as receiving top scholarships from both the Countess of Munster Trust and the MBF Myra Hess Trust. He came to national attention when he was a finalist in the 2002 Young Musician of the Year competition and subsequently was featured in Classical Music magazine and Muso magazine as well as making broadcasts nationally on BBC Radio Three and Classic FM. In 2005, he was invited to join the coveted recital scheme of the Countess of Munster Trust, enabling engagements for prestigious musical and orchestral societies across the UK.
Future engagements include recitals for the Darlington Piano Society and the Bath Recital Artists' Trust and in 2009 he will make tours of both the UK and France.
Robert said: ‘I am thrilled to have joined the newly refurbished music department under Andrew Barclay and to be contributing to, and developing, the talents of some wonderful young musicians. I feel that there is no better senior school in the county for music than St Bede's and I have no doubt that the music programme at the School will continue to enthral and inspire countless young people as it once did me. It is an honour to work in such a vibrant and prestigious establishment’.
'to be contributing to, and developing, the talents of some wonderful young musicians. I feel that there is no better senior school in the county for music than St Bede's'.
Robert Scamardella
