Rosie Townhill

Name:	Rosie Townhill
Location:	Glasgow United Kingdom G77
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Rosie graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama with a BMus(Hons) in 1998 and Certificate of Postgraduate Studies in 1999 where she studied with William Conway and Robert Irvine. Since 1999 she has become a member of the Scottish Ballet orchestra and a regular freelancer for the BBC Scottish Symphony orchestra including numerous live and recorded Radio 3 broadcasts, BBC Radio Scotland, BBC4 and BBC2 Live television performances at the BBC Proms Royal Albert Hall and several BBC Proms in the Park at Glasgow Green as well as concert tours to the Netherlands (including a live broadcast from the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam) and Belgium in 2013, the New Year tour of China 2014-2015, the Japan Tour October 2019 and the Edinburgh Festival 2023.
In June 2015 Rosie appeared in the live BBC Music Day television/radio Gala concert broadcast which included tenor soloist Noah Stewart, violinist Jack Liebeck, singers Lulu, Jamie Cullum, Claire Hastings and Deacon Blue.

In 2002 Rosie toured Europe with Brit-award-winning band Belle and Sebastian including appearing with them at Glastonbury festival and a performance at Glasgow's Royal Concert hall broadcast on STV.
In 2017 she performed in the band for Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen performances of Anton Du Beke and Erin Boag’s Swing Time tour.

Rosie's recording session work experience includes BBC SSO CD recordings and sessions for scottish singer/songwriters Michael Marra, Isobel Campbell, Stevie Jackson and Rowan Ross as well as solo Cello for Mick Cooke's soundtrack to the award-winning short animation film The Tannery.
She has also recorded solo Cello parts for Fraser Purdie’s film and televisions scores for CBBC’s Gudrun the Viking Princess, David Attenborough’s Empire of the Ants and Maramedia’s Wild Way of the Vikings and Wild Shetland.

Other performing experience includes work for Scottish Opera as Solo Cellist for the world premiere tour of the contemporary opera "The Minotaur" by Julian Evans in 2004. She has performed in string Chamber ensemble recitals at Dartington International Music Festival, Mendelssohn on Mull Music Festival, Edinburgh University and St Andrew's Byre Theatre. Her solo appearances have also included recitals for the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, the Mid-Argyll Arts Association, Bruch's Kol Nidrei at Edinburgh Queen's Hall with Scottish Schools Orchestra Trust (1995) and a Baroque Concerto by John Garth with the Scottish Bach Consort in 1998.

Rosie is a member of the Trossachs Quartet in high demand for Wedding/function bookings - www.trossachs-quartet.co.uk.

As a Cello teacher she has worked privately and in schools since 1999 having previously worked as a peripatetic Cello instructor for North Lanarkshire Council and currently holds a part-time teaching post as Cello instructor for East Renfrewshire Council. Rosie has also worked as a string tutor for the Mendelssohn on Mull Festival children's string course and is currently employed as the Cello tutor for the Strathclyde University Symphony orchestra.

Additional Specialisms:

Orchestral Playing, Session Work, Solo Performance, Contemporary Music