NYOW Woodwind Tutors - Tutoriaid Chwithbrennau CCIC (Meyrick Alexander - Bassoon/Basŵn

Meyrick Alexander – Bassoon

Before taking up his position as Head of Woodwind at RWCMD in 2010, Meyrick Alexander had held the position of Principal Bassoon in the Philharmonia Orchestra since 1980, before which he was a member of several leading orchestras including the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra and the Northern Sinfonia.

Meyrick is Principal Bassoon of the London Chamber Orchestra and has played period instruments with John Eliot Gardiner’s Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique. He is a regular guest principal with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.  He has performed extensively as a chamber musician and as a guest with nearly every British symphony and chamber orchestra, and is also a regular soloist at the annual International Double Reed Conference in the USA, Australia and the UK.

Meyrick has been bassoon tutor for the National Youth Orchestra of Wales, National Youth Wind Orchestra of Wales and the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. He will also be coaching the Woodwind section of the Ulster Youth Orchestra in the Summer of 2015.

Meyrick Alexander – Basŵn

Cyn dod yn Bennaeth Chwythbrennau yng Ngholeg Brenhinol Cerdd a Drama Cymru yn 2010, Meyrick Alexander oedd prif Chwaraewr Basŵn y Philharmonia Orchestra ers 1980, a chyn hynny, roedd yn aelod o nifer o gerddorfeydd  blaenllaw gan gynnwys y BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra a'r Northern Sinfonia.

Meyrick yw prif chwaraewr Basŵn y London Chamber Orchestra ac mae wedi chwarae offerynnau cyfnod gydag Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Roantique John Eliot Gardiner. Mae'n aml yn brif westai'r gyda'r Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.  Mae wedi perfformio nifer o weithiau fel cerddor siambr ac fel gwestai gyda bron iawn pob cerddorfa Symffoni Brydeinig a Cherddorfa Siambr, ac mae'n aml yn perfformio fel unawdydd yn yr Annual International Double Reed Conference yn UDA, Awstralia a'r DU.

Mae Meyrick wedi bod yn diwtor basŵn i Gerddorfa Genedlaethol Ieuenctid Cymru, Cerddorfa Chwyth Genedlaethol Ieuenctid Cymru a National Youth Wind Orchestra of Great Britain. Bydd hefyd yn hyfforddi adran Chwyth yr Ulster Youth Orchestra yn yr Haf 2015.