About

Adriene

Adriene is a Graduate of Trinity College of Music, London and an Associate of the Royal College of Music in Singing Performance. She holds Licentiate Teaching Diplomas in Flute, Piano and Singing.

Also, having learnt Celtic Harp with Anne, Piano Accordion with Sallie Walrond, Guitar, Ukulele and Violin, she enjoys teaching all of these to elementary level, especially violin, which provides the greatest challenge.

Adriene has taught in State, Public & Private Schools, and has been invited to teach abroad.

She has performed singing, flute & piano at home and abroad for Music Societies, Cathedrals, Churches, Stately Homes and for many Charities.

Adriene’s 70 plus Art Greetings Cards, many of local scenes, and supporting local and other charities, are for sale in about 30 outlets, including her first Card Spinner in Long Melford Antiques Interiors & Lifestyle Centre, Cavendish’s Tea On The Green and Baalam’s Music Shop, Bury St Edmunds.

More details about Adriene’s music teaching including testimonials, and Art Cards, canvases, mounted and framed pictures can be found on :

http://www.adrieneellismusicteacher.co.uk http://www.adreamsgreetingscards.co.uk

(Adriene’s websites are in the process of being updated, hopefully by 2026)

Anne

Anne studied the piano from a young age, and later the clarinet, but was inspired to take up the lever harp as an adult, when living in London, coming across the harp being played in South Kensington tube station, and seeing an advert to ‘Come and learn to play the most beautiful instrument in the world!’.

She subsequently learnt traditional repertoire and technique from Scottish, Irish and Welsh harp players, as well as studying with classical harpists, and then obtained a diploma in instrumental teaching from Trinity College of Music, London.

She now teaches the harp to students of all ages, alongside performing both solo and as part of instrumental duos. She also rings handbells in the East Anglian Regional Handbell Team, as well as running her own handbell team.

She is also on the committee of the London & South-East Branch of the Clarsach Society, a Scottish charity which exists to promote the clarsach (Scottish lever harp) and its music, in Scotland and the wider world harp community, and which organises the Edinburgh Harp Festival every year.

Anne plays a Teifi Eos harp, a professional lever harp made by the former Teifi Harps company in West Wales, and a Pilgrim Ashdown lever harp, made by Pilgrim Harps in Surrey.