WREXHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Ruth Bingham - Cello
Ruth Bingham was born in
St. Asaph in 1969. She started learning the cello at the age of ten with
Bridget McNeile as a pupil at Howell's School, where she was later awarded a
music scholarship. During this time Ruth competed in music festivals in North
Wales and won "Student of the Year" at both the Liverpool and Chester
Festivals.
At
sixteen Ruth gained success as a finalist in the "Shell/L.S.O. Scholarship
Competition". Later in the same year she was awarded a scholarship to
study at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music, but chose to accept a place on
the Performer's Course at the Royal Academy of Music in London where she
studied initially with Douglas Cummings and then for three years with Derek
Simpson. During her time there Ruth took part in masterclasses with Lyn Harrell
and Stephen Isserlis and had regular coaching as a chamber musician with the
Amadeus String Quartet.
In
her final year at the Academy, Ruth won a Welsh Arts Council Award after competing
against fifty other applicants.
Since
leaving music college, Ruth has experienced a wide range of orchestral and
chamber music playing including work with the English National Ballet, Royal
Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Hallé, Welsh Chamber
Orchestra, English String Orchestra, Opera for Europe Orchestra and regularly
with the Manchester Camerata.
As
well as her orchestral commitments, Ruth teaches the cello and regularly
performs solo in chamber music recitals in Wales and the North West. She has
recently returned from a concert tour of the South of France.
June
1999