Peter Richardson

Jurgen Hess recommended Peter to the Royal Scottish Academy, where he studied, from the age of 19, with Alexander Baillie, Philip Norris and Myra Chahin.

Peter works for In Harmony in the West End of Newcastle, coaching the main orchestras: Hawthorn Primary Symphony Orchestra (HPSO) and West Newcastle Symphony Orchestra (WNSO). He also currently works at Newcastle Royal Grammar School as cello teacher and organising unplugged gigs getting rock and classical musicians together to perform. He was recently asked to return to Sage Gateshead on Saturday mornings where he teaches cello to students on the programme there.

Peter regularly performs chamber and symphonic music and is a member of Three Shades of Grey with fellow cellist Julia Watson, and harpsichordist Andrew Soulsby.

He loves dogs, and training dogs!

Hannah Tattersfield

Hannah completed her undergraduate studies in Music at Newcastle University in 2013 before embarking on a career as a freelance teacher and violinist in the North East. In 2015, Hannah joined the Swedish National Orchestral Academy in Gothenburg where she trained for two years as an orchestral violinist with Øyvor Volle and Marja Inkenen-Engström. Whilst in Sweden, she taught alongside Venezuelan conductor Ron Davis Alvarez on several El Sistema projects and, upon returning to Newcastle in 2017, she joined Sage Gateshead’s In Harmony project. Hannah is very active as a performer and plays regularly with a variety of ensembles, as well as teaching violin and viola in schools and music centres in the area.