Amanda Lake

After pleading with her parents for eighteen months, Amanda began learning the violin with Patricia Calnan, when she was four. Amanda is now a scholar in her second year at the Royal College of Music. She attended the Royal College of Music Junior Department for nine years where she won the Ian Stoutzker violin prize, the Ruby White prize and the Constance Farrington prize. She has represented the Junior Department at a number of outside engagements, such as St Albans International Organ Festival and at the Draper’s Hall. After learning with Marius Bedeschi for eight years, she now studies with Dona Lee Croft. She was a member of the National Youth Orchestra for three years.

Amanda has performed concertos with Dulwich Youth Orchestra (Sarasate Zigeunerweisen), the Blackheath String Orchestra (Mozart, Concertos Nos. 3 and 4 and Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending) and the Dal Segno Orchestra (Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins). In November 2003 she performed the Sibelius Concerto with Camden Chamber Orchestra, the first movement of which she also performed with the orchestra of City of London School for Girls, where she held a music scholarship for seven years. Amanda was the winner of Croydon Festival’s Concerto Competition in 2003, resulting in a performance of Ravel’s Tzigane in March of this year as well as a solo appearance with Croydon Symphony Orchestra at the Fairfield Halls.

Since commencing her studies at the Royal College of Music, Amanda has been involved in a variety of chamber music groups. She is a member of the Alea Quartet as well as being part of the Prince Consort Ensemble, a large string chamber ensemble performing works such as the Mendelssohn Octet. She is planning to tour with both groups in the year ahead, to Oman and the United States of America. Amanda’s other interests include sailing, swimming in the North Sea, and caring for her rabbit.

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