Staff A-Z

Luke began his dance training at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance and then went on to complete his BA Hons degree at Laban in 2008. In 2009 he joined post graduate dance company Edge at London Contemporary Dance School.

Professionally he has performed for a variety of companies internationally alongside working with visual artists performing in galleries (Tate, Hayward Gallery)

His choreographic work has been shown at Canterbury Festival, Saddlers Wells (Damn Fine Dance at Elixir Festival), The Place, Siobhan Davies Studios, Move it 2016 and Arts Depot.

Luke also has a passion for teaching and has delivered classes and workshops with Greenwich Dance, The Place, Circus Space, Independent Dance, Laban, Surrey University, London Studio Centre, Salzburg Academy of Experimental Dance, Shobana Jeyasingh and Candoco.

Charlotte joined Springs Dance Company in 2008, performing and teaching extensively both nationally and internationally for over 8 years. Working with Springs gave Charlotte the opportunity to work with choreographers such as Darren Ellis, Will Tuckett, Vicky Fox and Suzannah McCreight. A highlight of her performing career was performing a solo piece choreographed by Suzannah McCreight at the Royal Albert Hall. Working with Springs Dance Company gave Charlotte a great deal of teaching experience, teaching on the company’s apprenticeship course and annual summer school.

Charlotte has led many educational projects and workshops in primary and secondary schools in a range of settings across the UK. Alongside dancing for Springs, Charlotte has performed in projects at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Resolutions, amongst other platforms. Charlotte now teaches across the South East, teaching ballet and contemporary techniques to students from a range of ages and including a professional course.

Michael has passionate beliefs about the way in which music is thought of in the present day and this has led him to develop various educational projects. These include setting up several series of masterclasses and since 1994, he has coached young professional quartets and string players on intensive residential courses held at his home.

Spring season 2022 featured Sascha as soloist in the Musikverein Vienna, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Printzregententheater in Munich and Konzerthaus Berlin along with partner Antoine Tamestit and the AKAMUS Berlin. As a chamber musician, the recording release of complete string chamber music of Edward Gregson on Naxos Label and international concerts with his Navarra Quartet as well as guesting principal with the London Philarmonic Orchestra and Orcherstra of the Age of Enlightenment will soon be followed by the release of the complete Schubert Trios on gut strings and a rich schedule touring with quartet, a Wigmore Hall recital and with many appearances with Britten Sinfonia.  

Sascha has appeared as principal player of Aurora Orchestra, London Mozart Players, Academy of Ancient Music, English Chamber Orchestra and Philharmonia Orchestra and the Romanian Chamber Orchestra, a newly founded project very close to his heart in Romania. He enjoys the company of chamber music partners such as Anthony Marwood, Jonathan Stone, Katya Apekisheva, Adam Walker, RIchard Lester, Guy Johnston, Tim Posner at various festivals such as Adelburgh, Peasmarch or West Wicklow and their own quartet’s festival in Holland WCMF. Along with his quartet, Sascha has been the artistic director or the Weesp Chamber Music Festival going for last nine years near Amsterdam, curating eclectic programmes featuring guests such as Adam Walker, Aneleen Laenerts and Matt Hunt.  

Both violinist Rainer Schmidt from Hagen Quartet and composer György Kurtag marked strong influences on his musical understanding and approach to music scores. He had since had the opportunity to play in chamber groups with musicians including Thomas Zehetmair, Benjamin Schmid, Leonidas Kavakos and the members of Hagen Quartet. As a member of Mozart Quartet Salzburg, he toured around Europe performing complete Mozart quartets. 

As soloist, Sascha has often performed with the Philarmonic Banatul from Romania, recently the concert piece by Enescu in a unique arrangement with a symphony orchestra and coming up next season, a commissioned piece for viola and symphony orchestra by the Romanian composer Sabin Pautza. In the past years, notable soloist performances are the ones with Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra amongst others, in the Auditorio Nacional (Madrid), the Tonhalle (Zürich), the Kunst- und Kongresshaus (Luzern), the Sydney Opera House, and Melbourne Recital Centre. 

In 2007 he won the audition for the Principal Viola of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra. Previously a member of Camerata Salzburg (2006-2012) with Roger Norrington and Leonidas Kavakos was followed by Sascha successfully auditioning for the Australian Chamber Orchestra where he was appointed as a core member shortly after. He played as co-principal viola from 2012-2015 and acting principal viola 2015-2017 and had a significant role in curating chamber music programs and education. During his collaboration with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Sascha found an exceptional exemplary of a 1610 Gio Paolo Maggini viola which he used in concerts for two years, having to return it to the orchestra after relocating to the UK. 

Sascha enjoys playing regularly in gut stringed ensembles, appearing as co-principal viola with Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Le Poeme Harmonique and the Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. He worked with conductors such as John Eliot Gardiner, Louis Langrée, Sir Roger Norrington, Philippe Herreweghe and Rene Jacobs and is a founding member of Schubert String Trio London.   

In addition to his activities as a classical musician, Sascha is dedicated to jazz and other forms of improvised music and regularly appears at jazz concerts and festivals. He loves to play with his father bassist Johnny Bota, guitarist James Kitchman and pianist Bruno Heinen and has appeared at jazz festivals in Europe as well as the EFG Jazz Festival in London with the J.Kitchman Quartet. Part of ACO Underground he appeared next to shout poet Marcie O’Neal, and shared stage with Giovanni Sollima and Jonny Greenwood. 

Sascha plays on a labelled M.Albani viola 1639 made in Bolzano, a baroque Pawlikovski instrument and on an NS design 5 stringed electric viola with various pedals.

Image credit: Andrej Grilc

Recent projects include her verbatim bike powered music theatre work Houses Slide, commissioned by London Sinfonietta, text by Cordelia Lynn and concept directed by Katie Mitchell; a multimedia transatlantic streaming work Distance, for soprano, Juliet Fraser and Talea Ensemble (New York). Upcoming projects include the world premiere of her opera The Blue Woman, dir. Katie Mitchell with a libretto by Laura Lomas at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in July 2022; a new multimedia music theatre work for Zubin Kanga; an opera commissioned by Ensemble Lydenskab dir. Katie Mitchell with a libretto by Sam Redway for June 2023; a multimedia music theatre work ADVERT, for herself to perform with Decoder Ensemble touring internationally.

Her work Wicked Problems, won the Royal Philharmonic Society Chamber Music Composition prize in 2021. She is also a Visiting Professor of Composition at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and a Lecturer in Composition at the Royal Northern College of Music and Trinity Laban.

He was Joint Principal and Designated Officer previously. As Director of Laban between 2003 and 2005, Anthony played a key role in the merger (2005) with Trinity College of Music which formed Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, the largest of the conservatoires in UK higher education.

His focus has been, and remains, the development of Trinity Laban as an international hub for the development of performing artists who will lead their art forms throughout the first half of the 21st century.

Anthony Bowne’s education in dance at (then) Laban in the early 1980s is complemented by an honours degree in Economics from the University of Southampton and an MSc from the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London. Anthony’s early career was as an economist in the motor industry. Later, he held an academic position at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.

His experience as an educator was balanced with creative expertise as a lighting designer for both theatre and architecture. Projects include theatre design for Matthew Bourne’s Adventures in Motion Pictures, Hong Kong Ballet, Rosemary Butcher, the Cholmondeleys and the National Theatre of Taiwan and architectural design for the World Finance Centre in Shanghai, Chijms in Singapore and Joyce retail stores in Hong Kong.

Utilising his training and experience in the performing arts, economics and architecture, Anthony led the project to realise the Stirling Prize-winning Laban Building which opened in 2003. He acted as Arts Council England capital project mentor on the Lottery funded New Vic theatre and served on the Rambert Dance Company Property Committee for the company’s relocation to London’s South Bank.

Anthony currently chairs both the Finance and Remunerations Committees of London Higher, the ‘umbrella’ organisation for London’s universities and higher education colleges. He is also Deputy Chair of Conservatoires UK and Chair of the UCAS Advisory Group for Universities and Colleges Admissions. Other board memberships include One Dance UK, the Bonnie Bird Choreography Fund, HEFCE’s Teaching Quality and Student Experience Strategic Committee, and Blackheath Halls (Chair). He has served on both the DCMS Dance Forum and the All Party Parliamentary Dance Group and is Visiting Chair of Dance for Lasalle College of the Arts in Singapore and Visiting Professor of City University, London.

Qualifications

University College London, Bartlett School of Architecture, EMSC Architecture 1992
Laban Centre for Movement and Dance, Post-Graduate Diploma, 1982
University of Southampton, BSc (Hons) Economics, 1977

Previous experience

Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
Joint Principal and Designated Officer, 2005-2010

Laban
Chief Executive, 2003-2005

Laban
Deputy Chief Executive, 1994-2003

Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
Senior Lecturer, Theatre Lighting Design, 1996-1998 (sabbatical position)
Leading the teaching of theatre and architectural lighting design and developing the Academy’s first Master’s programme

Laban Centre for Movement and Dance
Senior Lecturer, 1987-1994
Lecturing in lighting design and theatre production skills
Course Co-ordinator of Advanced Performance Course
Technical Direction and Management of Transitions Dance Company

Laban Centre for Movement and Dance
Lecturer, 1983-1986
Lecturing in lighting design and theatre production skills

Rover Cars
Senior Financial Analyst, 1979-1981
Leading a team of Financial Analysts

Rover Cars
Financial Analyst, 1978-1979

Professional Lighting Design (selection 1993 – 2003)

2003
Rite of Spring, Natalie Weir, Hong Kong Ballet, tour

2002
Now Blind Yourself, Jan De Schynkel,  The Place Theatre, London
Slow-Still-Divided, Rosemary Butcher, Tanzquartier, Vienna

2001
Chijmes, Singapore (architectural)
Rite of Spring, Natalie Weir, Lyric Theatre, Hong Kong

2000
Vast Desert, National Theatre, Taiwan

1999
World Finance Centre, Shanghai, China (architectural)

1998
Joyce Department Store, Central, Hong Kong (architectural)
Dusk ’til Dawn, Hong Kong (architectural)
Joyce Department Store, Nathan Road, Hong Kong (architectural)

1997
Usa Cosa Rara (opera), Drama Theatre, HKAPA, Hong Kong
G’S Club, Shanghai, China (architectural)
Dance! Dance!! Dance!!!, Lyric Theatre, Hong Kong

1996
Spring Dance, Lyric Theatre, Hong Kong

1995
Swinger, Yolande Snaith
Car, The Cholmondeleys
Fierce/Pink/House, Della Davidson

1994
Metalcholica, The Cholmondeleys
Forgotten Voices, Fin Walker
Silence of the Pestle Sound, National Theatre, Taiwan

1993
Carmina Burana, National Theatre, Taiwan
Silent Tongues, Fin Walker
Set the Night on Fire, Three’s Company, Royal Festival Hall

Awards

Anthony was one of 10 lighting designers chosen as ‘ones to watch’ in ‘Lighting Dimensions’ (USA) and won a London Dance and Performance Award in 1992 for the lighting design of Yolande Snaith’s No Respite.

Professional activities / memberships

Current

• Board member and Chair of Remunerations and Finance Committees, London Higher
• Board member One Dance UK
• Member of Universities UK
• Member of HEFCE’s Teaching Quality and Student Experience (TQSE) Strategic Committee
• Deputy Chair, Conservatoires UK
• Chair, UCAS Conservatoires Advisory Group for Universities and Colleges Admissions System (UCAS Conservatoires)
• Board member, Bonnie Bird Choreography Fund
• Guest Professor, Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore
• Chair, Blackheath Halls, Greenwich, London
• Visiting Professor, City University London

Past

• Member of Mayor of London’s Cultural Strategy Group
• Board member, Bird College, Sidcup
• Mentor for Arts Council England Lottery Capital Programme (Young Vic Theatre)
• Member, Scholarship Review Panel, Western Australia Academy for Performing Arts
• Chair, Cholmondeleys and Featherstoneshaughs dance companies
• Member of DCMS Dance Forum
• Member, Property Committee, Rambert Dance Company
• Board member, Creative Lewisham
• Board member, Deptford Creative Village
• Degree Accreditation Panel member, Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation
• Validation Panel member, Open University validation of Lasalle College, Singapore
• Governor, Finnish Institute, London

A keen chamber musician, Paul has played with many respected ensembles such as London Winds, the Galliard Ensemble and the Sacconi Quartet, with recent concerts in Greece with ECO Wind Ensemble and in Japan with RPO Winds. In 2012, he formed a new ensemble to showcase the amazing repertoire written for large wind ensemble and in May of that year, it gave a highly successful debut concert in the Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields, where it was joined by pianist John Lill for a performance of Mozart’s Quintet for Piano and Wind alongside Serenade No. 10, Gran Partita, scored for 13 instruments.

In 2015, Paul was delighted to be invited to join the bassoon teaching staff at Trinity Laban. Formerly a teacher at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, he regularly visits other conservatoires around the country including the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Royal Northern College of Music and Birmingham Conservatoire. He has also been invited to give masterclasses at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music in Australia and the Festival d’Aosta in northern Italy.  Paul also enjoys coaching chamber music and directing larger ensembles.

Sarah-Jane has premiered and recorded many new works for solo viola, many of which have been dedicated to her, including the viola concerto Winter Remembered by David Matthews. This was jointly commissioned and premiered at the Presteigne and Deal Festivals in 2002 and she gave the London premiere with the City of London Sinfonia in a concert broadcast live on Radio 3 in 2003. She also performed the work with the English Chamber Orchestra and Paul Watkins conducting at Kings Place in 2012 in a festival to celebrate David’s 70th birthday. This work is included on her debut concerto CD of British Viola Music with Orchestra Nova and conducted by George Vass, which was released on Dutton Epoch in 2007 to high critical acclaim. Subsequently she has recorded five further concerto CDs for Dutton: Arthur Butterworth’s Viola Concerto with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Delius’s Double Concerto with Philippe Graffin and the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by David Lloyd-Jones (Classic FM Magazine’s Editor’s Choice), Paul Patterson’s Viola Concerto with Orchestra Nova (which she premiered at the 2009 Hampstead and Highgate Festival), Arthur Benjamin’s Viola Concerto and Romantic Fantasy for violin and viola with Lorraine McAslan, John Gibbons and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and most recently Walter Braunfels’ Viola Concerto with the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Johannes Wildner. Sarah-Jane also gave the premiere of Matthew Taylor’s Viola Concerto 5 Humoreskes in 2011 and recorded the work with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Garry Walker in a studio concert for Radio 3 in January 2013. The CD was released on Toccata Classics in July 2013. Sarah-Jane has recorded two recital CDs for Naxos of East European Romantic Works and English Works for Viola and Piano, as well as a CD of works by Vaughan-Williams with the London Soloists Ensemble.

Other performances included a concert series at St John’s Smith Square with the London Soloists Ensemble, a performance of David Matthews’ Double Concerto for Violin and Viola at the Presteigne Festival, and a performance of the winning piece of the British Composer’s Awards student entry for solo viola to be broadcast on Radio 3. Sarah-Jane plays on a viola by G.A. Chanot of Manchester, 1896.“Sarah-Jane Bradley is that rare kind of viola player who can make you blush with shame for ever having told a viola joke. In her hands the instrument is passionate, eloquent and wide-ranging in its colours and moods. I would happily put this at the top of any list of recommended recordings.” BBC Music Magazine, June 2007 on “British Viola Music” (5* for both performance and sound).

Following studies as a scholar at the Royal Academy of Music with John White and at the Mozarteum, Salzburg with Thomas Riebl, Sarah-Jane won many prestigious awards, including the Trevor Snoad Award (Martin Trust), Countess of Munster, Maisie Lewis Young Artists, Royal Overseas League, Bernard Shore Award (ROSL), Tillett Trust, Leverhulme Trust, BBC Young Artists Forum and Young Concert Artists Trust amongst others. She was a prizewinner at the 1994 Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition, of which she is now on the executive committee and was also invited to sit on the jury for the 2013 competition. She won first prize at two competitions in Spain at Capellades and Sant Joan de Vilatorrada in 1995 which led to substantial recital tours.

Qualifications:

• PhD entitled Biomechanical analysis of the impact of fatigue on the Dorsi flexors and Plantarflexors
• MSc in Applied Sport Science
• BSc (Hons) Sport Science
• Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in HE (PG-CertHE)

Teaching Experience:

• Senior lecturer and course director, Sports Analysis and Coaching, Kingston University.
• Senior laboratory technician, Kingston University.

Outputs:

Howatson, G., Goodall, S., Hill, J., Brouner, J., Gaze, D., McHugh, M. P., Shave, R. (2011). The influence of dietary antioxidant supplementation on exercise-induced cardiac troponin release. International Journal of Cardiology, 152 (1), 101 – 102

Howatson, G., McHugh, M.P., Hill, J., Brouner, J., Jewell, A., van Someren, K.A., and Shave, R. Howatson, S.A. (2010). The effects of a tart cherry juice supplement on muscle damage, inflammation, oxidative stress and recovery following Marathon running. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, 20, 843-52.

Howatson, G., McHugh, M. P.,  Hill, J. A., Brouner, J., Jewell, A. P., van Someren, K. A., Shave, R. E. and Howatson, S. A. (2009). Influence of Tart Cherry Juice on Indices of recovery Following Marathon Running, Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, 19(5) 975 – 979

Howatson, G.; Glaister, M.; Brouner, J.; van Someren, K. A. (2009). The reliability of electromechanical delay and torque during isometric and concentric isokinetic contractions, Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology, 19(5) 975-979

Further debuts include in the role of Kostelnička (Jenůfa) for Grange Park Opera, both Gertrude and The Witch (Hänsel und Gretel) for Opera North and Grange Park Opera, Mrs Lovett (Sweeney Todd) for Houston Grand Opera, her debut as Mother in the European premier of Missy Mazzoli’s award winning Breaking the Waves for Scottish Opera also at the Edinburgh International Festival, and a welcome return to the role of Mrs Lovett with Bergen National Opera. New roles in the 2019/20 season include in special virtual projects Feast in the Time of Plague and her debut as an actor in Keith Warner’s unique staging of King Lear in which she plays Goneril at The Grange Festival. Susan’s vast and diverse concert work has included the Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra and with Zubin Mehta and the orchestra of the Bayerische Staatsoper.

Popular appearances have included the Last Night of the Proms in 2011 and a special appearance at the London 2012 Olympics closing ceremony. Last season Susan returned to Wigmore Hall in their Late Night series with pianist Richard Sisson in an eclectic programme —Songs my father taught me—which ranged from Sondheim to Noel Coward and Burt Bacharach. This season she joins theRoyal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall for a gala concert in celebration of Raymond Gubbay. Susan Bullock’s substantial discography includes Der Ring des Nibelungen with Oper Frankfurt under Sebastian Weigle on Oehms Classics (also available on DVD), and the title role in Salome with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Sir Charles Mackerras for Chandos.

Over the course of her career, in the UK and abroad, she has worked in a broad range of roles including dance artist, choreographer, producer, CPD facilitator, inclusive consultant and Artistic Director. She is passionate about making dance accessible to all and works with a wide range of abilities and ages from 2 to 102. Vicki has extensive experience facilitating dance opportunities for people who define as disabled, neurodivergent, learning disabled, D/deaf, blind and visually impaired, people with long term health conditions and people living with dementia.

Outside of Trinity Laban Vicki teaches nationally for a variety of companies including the Royal Ballet and Opera, DanceEast, Shobana Jeyasingh Dance and Stopgap Dance Company. Under her company Dash Dot Dance, she facilitates multi-media projects, delivers professional development training (CPD) with a focus on making dance accessible to all and provides accessible participatory and performance projects for a range of organisations such as The Albany, Museum of London, Lord Mayor’s Show, The Barbican and Liberty Festival – London’s flagship festival celebrating groundbreaking work by D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists.