Pianists
Sally Goodworth
Sally has performed as an accompanist throughout the UK and Europe, in venues including the South Bank, Wigmore Hall, Barbican and Windsor Castle. She has toured in Spain, Italy, Germany and China as accompanist to the Berkshire Youth Choir. She currently holds a full time position as Music Coordinator at Brunel University split between the Music and Theatre Departments and Brunel Arts Centre and continues to be a staff pianist for the London College of Music, Berkshire Maestros and Oxford Flute Summer School.
Sally was a piano tutor, accompanist and lecturer in keyboard skills and piano pedagogy at Reading University for many years and staff accompanist for the RAF Central Band CPD schedule. She is Head of Piano for online board MTB Exams.
Sally has played for masterclasses given by many renowned musicians including Tasmin Little, Raphael Wallfisch, David Owen Norris, Jennifer Pike, John Wallace, Martin Owen, Michael Collins, George Caird, David Campbell, Laurence Perkins and many orchestral principals. She has accompanied many eminent flautists including Robert Winn, Wissam Boustany, Kate Hill, Ian Clarke, Katherine Kemler, Paul Edmund Davies and Jonathan Snowden.
Sally has performed numerous reduced orchestra operas in stately homes including Tosca, Eugene Onegin, La Boheme and La Traviata and has been Musical Director for more than 30 musical theatre productions including LCM’s Urinetown in 2018. She played in the film She’s Been Away directed by Sir Peter Hall and was a hand double playing Chopin in the last ever Poirot episode Curtains. Recordings include Elgar’s Trombone with Sue Addison and members of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Velvet Afternoon featuring original pieces for flute and piano composed and performed by John Hackett.
Richard Shaw
There is insufficient space here to mention all the distinguished musicians and singers with whom pianist Richard Shaw has collaborated. He is a specialist in Chamber Music and accompanying and is staff accompanist at the Royal Academy of Music. He has a vast knowledge of the flute repertoire having worked as official accompanist for numerous flute conventions, competitions, recitals and recordings.
Over a number of years, he has given generously of his time to young flautists, offering the same level of musical integrity and respect to the most inexperienced player as he does to professional musicians, literally accompanying each one on whatever musical journey they are making.
Radim Pancocha
Radim Pančocha studied at the Kromeriz Conservatory, Janacek Academy in Brno and Stavanger College in Norway, including masterclasses in London, Weimar and Paris. In 1996 he was the outright winner of the Anglo-Czechoslovak music competition in London and in 1998 with his piano trio was the winner of the Stavanger chamber music festival. He performs as a soloist with Moravian Philharmonic orchestra, Brno Philharmony and with recitalists for the Moravian Autumn Festival.
Radim has worked as official accompanist for many international competitions – Beethoven competition in Hradec nad Moravici, Janacek competition in Brno, International flute competition in Bratislava, Prague spring competition and others. He has performed across Europe with soloists such as Robert Winn, Denis Bouriakov, Lorna McGhee, Adam Walker, Lukasz Dlugosz, Janos Balint, Clara Novak, Peter Verhoyen and Davide Formisano. He has also participated at various flute masterclasses, recently with Phillipe Bernold , Matej Zupan and Yoshimi Oshima.
Radim currently lectures at the Faculty of music JAMU, teaches at the Brno conservatory and since April 2010 has worked together with his wife Libuse as pianists with the Brno Philharmonic orchestra.
In 2022 Radim was given the position of ‘Docent’ at Janacek Academy of Music.
Karen Suter
Whilst at Oxford High School, Karen won the national competition ‘Young Pianist of the Year’ and went on to read Music at London University. She then won a post-graduate scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music with Hamish Milne and Geoffrey Pratley. Specialising in chamber music, she won the major accompaniment and chamber music prizes before making appearances at the Purcell Room, including the Park Lane Contemporary Series, on BBC Radio and Classic FM, as well as on television.
Tours in Great Britain have been under the auspices of the Countess of Munster, John Tunnell, National Federation of Music Societies and the Making Music Recital Schemes. Concerts abroad include recitals with principal players from some of the world’s leading orchestras, across the United States and throughout Europe. Recent projects include concerts with members of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in the orchestra’s ‘Chamber Music Series’. Karen has also toured extensively with clarinettist Sue Gill, both as a duo and as a member of the ensemble Erard. As well as performing, Karen also has a busy teaching career and is passionate about teaching young pianists from a young age the skills needed for playing chamber music. She is now Head of Keyboard at The Dragon School, Oxford, having previously taught at New College School, Oxford and St Paul’s Juniors.