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David Smith
Conductor
David Smith is Music Director of Abbots Langley Orchestra, South East London Orchestra and Oxford Reunion Wind Orchestra, and Conductor of Hemel Symphony Orchestra.
David is passionate about performing great masterpieces of the orchestral repertoire, and has a particular specialism in British orchestral music. He has worked with many orchestras in London and the south of England as a guest conductor, including Aylesbury Symphony Orchestra, Fulham Symphony Orchestra and London Repertoire Orchestra.
He read Music and a Masters in Musicology at the University of Southampton, where his tutors included David Owen Norris and Michael Finnissy. He has studied conducting with Robin Browning and Denise Ham.
Away from conducting, David is Director of Assessment Services at ABRSM (the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music), a junior cricket coach and a lapsed trombonist and timpanist!
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Marion Garrett,
Leader
Before studying at the Royal Academy of Music with Rosemary Rappaport, Marion was taught by Head of Strings, Hilda Parry, at Watford School of Music where she gained distinctions in all examinations. She was a frequent prize winner at the Watford Music Festivals.
Marion leads the Chandos Ensemble, one of Hertfordshire's leading chamber ensembles, with whom she has appeared as soloist, and is a member of Watford Symphony Orchestra. She is much in demand by other local orchestras and choral society orchestras. As a chamber musician, Marion leads the Ridgeway String Quartet and is a regular recitalist with pianist, Peter Stephenson and a newly formed piano trio.
Recent solo performances include the Bach E major violin concerto with ALO and the solo violin in the Romance for violin & orchestra by Svendsen this Spring.
Until retiring Marion taught violin with Hertfordshire Music Service and now continues her private teaching practice.
