Canterbury Music Club, Sunday April 21, 2024, 3.00pm

Colyer-Fergusson Hall, Gulbenkian Arts Centre, University of Kent

Kent & Medway Young Musicians Trust Concert

ARTISTS

Oliver Moh, cello

Ricky Taing, flute

Jemima Inman, oboe

               WITH

Mark Bromley, piano accompanist

Leah Inman, piano accompanist

BIOGRAPHIES

Jemima Inman, oboe

Jemima began playing oboe at age twelve, encouraged by her musical family.  

She played in various ensembles and orchestras under Kent Music before joining Junior Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in 2019. She is now in her fifth year there and enjoys playing principal in their Symphony Orchestra alongside participating in smaller ensembles.

Recognised for her musicianship by Awards for Young Musicians, she has been given many exciting performing opportunities, including playing with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Besides Junior Trinity, Jemima participates in The Lydian Orchestra and South London Youth Orchestra.

Jemima hopes to further her music education through a bachelor’s in performance, which she will begin in this coming year.

Oliver Moh, cello

Oliver, aged 12, is in Year 8 at Junior Kings School Canterbury. At age 8, he joined the Junior Royal Academy of Music in London, achieving a high distinction in his ABRSM Grade 8 cello exam shortly after. He learns with Bozidar Vukotic and plays a 3/4 size cello on loan from the Academy. He is keen to be a professional cellist. JS Bach is his favourite composer, and he particularly loves the cello suites.

Oliver has won many local and international competitions, including the prestigious Maidstone Young Musician of the Year in 2022. He experiences music uniquely through synesthesia, adding depth and sensory richness to his performances. He has also shown amazing resilience in overcoming recent traumatic brain surgery.

In his free time, Oliver’s interests include animal documentaries, Star Wars, mathematics, football, chess, and competitive speed-cubing with Rubik's cubes.

Ricky Taing, flute

Ricky started piano at the Blackheath Conservatoire, aged 10, then piano and flute at The Mick Jagger Centre. He gained a scholarship to study at Junior Trinity with Peter Arnold (piano) and Thea Cramp (flute), playing in various chamber groups and enjoying concert appearances in national venues. He also played 1st flute/piccolo in the Kent Youth Wind Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra Soundworks ensemble. He has performed with the English Schools’ Orchestra and the National Youth Concert Band of Great Britain.

He now studies flute performance at the Royal Academy of Music with Laura Jellicoe, as part of his BMus (Hons) at King’s College London, where he is a Choral Scholar. He is also preparing for flute and piano diplomas. He attended Chetham’s Summer School for Pianists in 2015.

In 2019, he received a Personal Achievement in Music Award at the KCC Spirit of Try Angle Awards Ceremony. He won the Elizabeth Mooney Cup and the Halling Trophy at the Rochester and North Kent Music and Drama Festival. Following county and district awards he was invited to play at the civic reception of the Chairman of Kent County Council, performing for the Lord Mayor of Canterbury at County Hall, Maidstone.

Leah Inman, piano accompanist

Leah Inman is a pianist and flautist. She learned with Sam Armstrong and Thea Cramp at Junior Trinity Conservatoire, achieving multiple diplomas on both instruments. She then studied the Kodaly Method under the tutelage of David Vinden for three years. In 2016 she moved to Stuttgart, Germany to study flute with Elisabeth Deinhard of the Esslingen School of Music.

From 2017-2019 Leah lived in the USA teaching music with the non-profit organisation SWAN4Kids which provides fully-funded music tuition, performance opportunities and mentoring for children who are impacted by parents in prison or are themselves imprisoned. On returning to the UK, she worked as a piano and flute teacher at the Dunedin School of Music and taught privately before starting an MA in Music Therapy at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama; she graduated with a First in July 2023. She now works part-time as a Music Therapist with children and young people at The Nest in Southwark, London while keeping up her private teaching.

Alongside her other work, Leah performs regularly. She accompanies recitals and is part of the Onda Piano Duo, with Joseph Compton. She plays as a pianist with different ensembles in London and is in the process of establishing a piano trio with flautist, Lila Bhattacherjee and clarinetist, Charlotte Bartley.