About us
Albamusica only uses the finest conservatoire trained professional musicians to play at your event. We have a pool of excellent players in Edinburgh and Glasgow; we thought you might like to meet a few of the players:
Lindsay Martindale (cello)
Lindsay studied with Joan Dickson at the Royal College of Music and subsequently with William Pleeth.
She was sub-principal cello of the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and spent seven years in the Orquesta Sinfonica de Sevilla in Spain before returning to Scotland where she has performed with most of the professional orchestras in Scotland and currently performs recitals, concertos and teaches cello.
Her playing is featured in guide book trailers and in 2020 she played Bach outdoors every day of lockdown for the neighbours, recorded in these beautiful videos here.
Roderick Long (violin)
Roderick was born in Edinburgh and first studied with Edna Arthur, he later studied the violin in Royal College of Music London and Julliard School New York and has worked professionally as an orchestral violinist, chamber musician and teacher.
He is a conductor and coach for the National Youth Orchestras of Scotland and has also worked on musical education projects with children in Bosnia.
Gergely Horvath (violin)
Gergely Horvath, Hungarian born violinist, studied for 14 years in Budapest – both in Zoltán Kodály Choir School and in Béla Bartók Conservatoire.
In 2006, he received the Louis Stevenson Scholarship to study in The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where he won competitions such as the Mabel Glover String Quartet Prize as well as the Governer’s Prize for Chamber Music.
With the Arion String Quartet Gergely has played concerts all over Scotland and the UK and has freelanced with all major Scottish orchestras, including BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Royal National Symphony Orchestra and Scottish Opera.
Michael Beeston (viola)
Michael’s name is synonymous with chamber music in Scotland. Whilst appearing as guest leader of all the major national orchestral viola sections, he has toured the world over four decades as member of a well-known international string quartet, making many award-winning recordings.
He has always shared his passion for music through teaching roles at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, St Mary’s Music School, City of Edinburgh Music School and others, while fulfilling directorial roles at the Aberdeen International Youth Festival, Mendelssohn on Mull Festival, Glasgow Chamber Music and innumerable quartet events.
Joanna Petrie (viola)
Joanna was born in Edinburgh and brought up in Scotland and Australia.
After studying at the University of Durham and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama with Michael Beeston, Mike Gerrard and Peter Kemp, she played with Scottish Ballet, spending many years with them, Scottish Opera and the BBCSSO.
Favourite experiences have been a Scottish Opera production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle and offstage solo roles in two of their Rosenkavalier productions, memorable Prom concerts with the BBCSSO and their 2006 tour to South America, an Edinburgh season of Phantom of the Opera and freelance work with pop and rock bands such as Capercaillie.
Joanna loves chamber music and performing such pieces as Schubert’s C major Quintet and Beethoven’s C minor trio with friends for Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities.
Rosie Townhill (cello)
Rosie graduated from the RSAMD(RCS) in 1998 where she studied with William Conway and Robert Irvine. She has worked with the Scottish Ballet Orchestra since 1999 as well as regular freelance work with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra including CD recordings and tours to the Netherlands, Belgium, China and Japan.
Rosie performed with Belle and Sebastian at Glastonbury Festival 2002 and toured with them to Spain, Portugal, Germany, Greece, Italy and Norway in 2002-2003.
She has also recorded for singer-songwriters Michael Marra, Isobel Campbell, Stevie Jackson and Rowan Ross.
Rosie has performed in the band for Anton Du Beke and Erin Boag’s Swing Time tour and she recorded solo cello tracks for David Attenborough’s “Empire of the Ants”, CBeebies series “Gudrun the Viking Princess” and BBC1 documentary “Wild Shetland”.
Sophie Askew (harp)
Sophie combines her passions in busy performing and teaching careers. Sophie has broadcast live on BBC Scotland, STV and Radio Scotland.
She and Lindsay Martindale form the duo Cuerdas who have performed around Scotland including the Edinburgh Fringe and the The Isle of Arran.
Keen to expand the harp’s repertoire and reach, she is currently very excited to be working on a collaboration with Steve Davismoon and the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh.