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Pudding Chare Music Festival, Lit & Phil, Newcastle upon Tyne (2026)

01/05/2026

Some snaps from our fundraising concert this afternoon!

Lovely to meet many new audience members and connect with old ones, thanks to everybody who came and the for hosting us!

30/04/2026

Looking forward to our sold out fundraising concert tomorrow at the Lit & Phil featuring Seth Collin, Matthew Hayes and Sophia Lim 🎉🎉
We have a couple of tickets held back so drop us a DM if you’d like to come!
Stay tuned for the announcement of this Summer’s programme…☀️🎶

24/08/2025

This Friday’s lunchtime concert is now sold out!

Tickets are still available for concerts on Thursday and Saturday but going quickly, we’d love to see you there!

20/08/2025

🎶 MEET THE PERFORMERS🎶

Our festival director Seth Collin is currently studying the cello with Louise Hopkins at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, supported by awards from the Countess of Munster Trust and Help Musicians. Seth particularly enjoys exploring the extensive chamber music repertoire for the cello, having attended festivals and programmes including IMS Prussia Cove, La Roque d’Anthéron International Piano Festival, ChamberStudio, Maiastra, Brundibar Arts Festival, Wye Valley Festival Summer Residency. He recorded a disc of works for cello ensemble and voice with Roderick Williams and the Endellion Cellos for SOMM Recordings. He has given recitals in venues such as Kings Place, Holywell Music Room, and West Road Concert Hall, and was recently a prize-winner of the 2025 Schoenfeld International String Competition with Trio Havisham.

Seth has enjoyed concerto performances of Brahms’ Double Concerto with the City of Cardiff Symphony Orchestra and Northumberland Orchestral Society, and of Haydn D major Concerto with the Orchestra of Clare College, Cambridge. He has participated on orchestral schemes including the Chipping Campden Festival Orchestra Academy, and the St. Endellion Festival Orchestra, and he was Co-Principal of the National Youth Orchestra in 2020. Prior to commencing his studies at GSMD, Seth is grateful to have studied with Karen Stephenson, Jennifer Langridge at the JRNCM, where he won the concerto competition, and Sue Lowe.

Seth is a keen educator, and coaches chamber music on Procorda’s Saturday school alongside private teaching. He is frequently invited back by NYOGB to lead musical workshops for young people, and each year runs chamber music coaching days and school visits with the Pudding Chare Music Festival.

19/08/2025

🎶MEET THE PERFORMERS🎶

Matthew Hayes is a violist from Whitley Bay in the North East, currently based in Manchester. He is about to begin studying for a Masters degree at the Royal Northern College of Music with Louise Lansdown, having just completed his undergraduate with Lucy Nolan.

Recent highlights include performing in projects alongside Manchester Collective, Manchester Camerata and the BBC Philharmonic and as co-principal viola of the St Endellion Easter Festival.

As an educator, Matthew teaches at RNCM Young Strings, Junior RNCM and works with students in India through the ARCO project.

19/08/2025

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Isobel Neary-Adams studies with David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama supported by the Munster trust and Albert Cooper trust, having completed undergraduate study at the University of Oxford. They cultivated a passion for chamber music at MusicWorks, Festival Resonances Academy, Maiastra and IMS Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music. Recent performances include concerts with the Telyn quartet, Castalian Quartet, Sinfonia Cymru, Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, Ensemble 360, and at Penarth Chamber Music and Wye Valley Festivals, in venues such as Wigmore Hall, Holywell Music room, and Menuhin Hall. Isobel has benefitted from masterclasses with eminent musicians Thomas Riebl, Jennifer Stumm, Asbjørn Nørgaard, Antje Weithaas, Arisa Fujita, Peter Herresthal, Malin Broman and David Waterman. As a soloist, they performed the Walton Concerto with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra and City of Cardiff Symphony Orchestra, Bruch double concerto with Oxford Chamber Orchestra, and Mozart Sinfonia Concertante, which they will revisit in January with Remy Ballot and Oxford University Orchestra. Upcoming engagements include Tunnell trust, Southwell and Pudding Chare festivals, and ChamberStudio residencies with the Telyn Quartet, concerts with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonia Cymru, Lawson trio, and Neary-Adams string trio.

15/08/2025

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Tabitha is just about to start her third year at St John’s College, Cambridge, reading music, whilst studying violin with David Takeno in London. She performs regularly as a soloist and chamber musician and in recent years has participated in masterclasses members of the London Haydn, Brodsky, Doric and Castalian String Quartets. In 2023 she won the Oxford Philharmonic Junior Concerto Competition. She has performed numerous concerti with local orchestras in Oxford and joint-led the NYO in its 2021 season. This year in Cambridge she was the assistant musical director of a newly translated Yiddish play called Stempenyu.

Her musical development has been hugely influenced through participation in Festival Resonances Academy, MusicWorks, and Wye Valley Chamber Music Festival summer residency and Kuhmo Festival. She is a member of the Telyn Quartet, formed in 2023. Together, they have been awarded a place on ChamberStudio’s residency and Mentorship scheme, and were invited to attend Tunnell Trust’s Music Coll Course.

Her interest in historically informed Baroque performance has been enhanced through the mentorship of Margaret Faultless, Nicholas Mulroy, Rachel Podger and John Butt in Cambridge and at Dartington summer school.

13/08/2025

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Dutch-British violinist Alma Vink is currently studying with Arisa Fujita at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. During her English undergraduate degree at the University of Cambridge (2021-2024), she studied with David Takeno in London, with whom she continues to have lessons now. She has participated in masterclasses with members of the London Haydn and Doric string quartets, Philippe Graffin, Rachel Podger, Aki Saulière among others, at courses such as the London Masterclasses, La Loingtaine, Festival Resonances Academy and Masterclass Apeldoorn. As a member of the Telyn string quartet, Alma has been mentored by musicians such as David Waterman, Donald Grant, Sini Simonen and Catherine Manson, and are also on the prestigious ChamberStudio UK professional mentorship scheme. This summer they will be in residence at the Southwell Festival as their 2025 String Apprentices, and have been invited to attend the Tunnell Trust’s Music Coll course. While at Cambridge, Alma was on the Instrumental Award Scheme, and was principal of the second violins in the University Orchestra, with whom she was awarded the opportunity to perform as a soloist in Haydn’s Sinfonia Concertante in May 2024, leading the orchestra from the violin. She took part in a vast number of concert opportunities at Cambridge, including a performance of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto as a soloist, and countless chamber music recitals. On baroque violin, she has been mentored by Margaret Faultless and Nicholas Mulroy. Recent professional engagements include being invited by the Esbjerg Ensemble in Denmark to play in the Den Ny Opera summer production of “The Magic Flute”, and leading second violins in the Storioni Festival String Soloists. Alma is looking forward to performing Saint-Saëns’ 3rd violin concerto with the London Phoenix Orchestra at Sinfonia Smith Square this October.

05/08/2025

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Daniel has just graduated from Clare College, where he read music. Before this, he studied piano and composition at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester. While there, he took lessons with Murray McLachlan, and won the school concerto prize following a performance of Britten’s Piano concerto. As a composer, after winning 2019’s BBC Young Composer, his piece Fanfares was premiered by the BBC Concert Orchestra in the summer of this year. At the moment, he studies piano with Tessa Nicholson.

05/08/2025

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Cameron Walls is a twenty year old cellist entering his third year at the Royal Academy of Music with John Myerscough. A passionate chamber musician, Cameron is the cellist of Scintilla Quartet and receives coaching with esteemed musicians such as Anthony Marwood, Adrian Brendel, Marije Johnston, and members of the Barbican, Castalian and Doric String Quartets.
Scintilla Quartet regularly perform across London, playing music by the likes of Ravel, Bacewicz, and Haydn, and have found recent success placing second in the prestigious Nina Drucker Haydn Prize at the Academy.
Before moving to London, Cameron attended the Centre for Advanced Training at the Glasshouse, studying with James Craig. He was principal cello of the Young Sinfonia, and won the Avison Ensemble Young Musician’s Award at the Lit & Phil. He went on to become a member of the National Youth Orchestra in 2022, performing at the Royal Albert Hall in the BBC Proms.
A versatile musician, Cameron is excited to continue his studies in September with the addition of learning Baroque cello and viola de gamba under the guidance of Nathan Giorgetti and Margaret Faultless. His experience in historical performance started in Gateshead, playing in a viol consort led by John Finnon and Erardo Evans, and he has continued to develop this passion for viol playing at the Academy.

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