Early Career Artists
Instruments of Time and Truth are excited to announce a new Early Career Artists Programme, thanks to the generous support of the Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation.
Early Career Artists will perform alongside regular IT&T players as part of the ensemble and receive mentoring and coaching throughout the year. We expect that this scheme will be highly valuable for young professional artists as they launch their careers, allowing them to put into practice what they have learned while studying through working regularly with a professional ensemble.
The Early Career Artist will receive:
- the opportunity to perform in 6 IT&T concerts, paid at the usual IT&T orchestral musician rate
- 2 hours of coaching from an IT&T player over the course of the year
Potential IT&T Early Career Artists need not necessarily have specialised in period performance during their studies, however they are likely to have had some experience of historical performance and will be interested in working professionally as period players. Applicants without conservatoire/university degrees will be considered for audition providing they can demonstrate that they have undergone similar levels of training with a highly-regarded teacher.
Applications for the 2023 scheme are now closed. Applications for the 2024 scheme will open in autumn 2023.
ECA 2023:
Melanie Gruwez
Melanie Gruwez is a Belgian violinist, passionate about different music genres. She is an award-winning chamber musician, obtaining the St James Prize 2021 with Picea Quartet, who has performed internationally on the stages of the Barbican, Bozar, de Doelen and the Oriental Art Centre Shanghai in different formations. As a historical performer, she has played side by side the Academy of Ancient Music and Barokksolistene and she currently plays with the Theresia Orchestra across Europe, most recently performing an all Beethoven programme under Giovanni Antonini’s direction.
Melanie obtained her Artist Masters from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2022, having previously graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp, and studied the violin with Ofer Falk, Guido De Neve and Shirly Laub and baroque violin with Oliver Webber and Chiara Banchini