Biography Corrina was born in Brisbane, but was educated in Wellington where she began playing the violin at the age of nine, and the cello at the age of 14. Her violin teachers were Mary Taylor and Gillian Ansell, and she initially studied cello with Heidi Baillie, and Ann Werry before beginning lessons with David Chickering. At Victoria University of Wellington Corrina studied violin with Ursula Evans and Kim Jin, and completed a BMus with 1st class honours in Performance, and History and Literature of Music in 2004. During this time Corrina was a member of the Wellington Youth Orchestra (occupying principal positions in the violin and cello sections between 2002 and 2005), and the NZSO National Youth Orchestra. She continued studying with David Chickering, and in 2003 began studying Baroque cello with Katrin Eickhorst Squire.
Between 2005 and 2007 Corrina read for an MPhil in Performance and Musicology at St Hilda's College Oxford, where she studied Baroque cello with Jonathan Manson, and did research into the performance of Mozart's Epistle Sonatas, contexts for the symphony anthem in the Chapel Royal 1689-1702, and the anthems of Pelham Humfrey.
From 2008-2010 Corrina worked at the Purcell School where she worked as a practice supervisor, theory and harmony teacher, cello teacher, and assistant housemistress.
Corrina has been the recipient of various awards and scholarships, including a Music Scholarship and Performance Award from St Hilda's College, the Joan Conway Scholarship for Performance Studies from Oxford University, a bursary from the Cambridge Early Music Summer School, and a Leverhulme bursary from the Dartington International Summer School to attend the Baroque Orchestra course in 2010. She currently studies Baroque Cello with Angela East, and plays regularly with Belsize Baroque Ochestra and Trinity College of Music Baroque Orchestra. |
Tuesday 24 May, 2.40pm Trinity College of Music Performing with Emily Gadd (Soprano), Olga Montoya Fuetes and Paulina Pluta (Violins), Philip Thorby (Harpsichord) Music by Albinoni and Cavalli Wednesday 1 June, 1pm Antechapel, New College, Oxford Lunchtime Recital Recent highlights include a solo performance with the Choir of St Martin-in-the-Fields on Good Friday, two lunchtime concerts also at St Martin's (with Nations Anciens et Modernes, and the Choral Scholars), and a less serious appearance at the Bloomsbury Theatre for two shows in the annual 'Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People' season.  |
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