Jo Scullin
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My very good friend and colleague Kirsten Offer will be running the Flora London Marathon with her sister Neiline (a third time survivor of cancer) to raise money for Cancer Research UK. Please sponsor them HERE if you can. Thanks.
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Jo graduated, with first class honours, from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama where she studied piano with Julian Jacobson, piano accompaniment with Antony Saunders and singing with Eiddwen Harrhy.
While at RWCMD she received several awards for musical and academic achievements and was privileged to be invited to accompany the college's principal 'cellist in a private performance for HRH the Prince of Wales at the opening of the Anthony Hopkins Centre.
Jo now works across South Wales as a freelance musical director, accompanist, singer, teacher and arranger. She is accompanist to the Morriston Orpheus Choir, the Cardiff Arms Park Male Choir, Stagecoach South Wales Regional Choir and vocal ensembles Vivace Singers and Diva Delight. She enjoys writing and arranging music for all these groups. As a singer Jo performs with the Welsh Chamber Singers and the Vivace Singers and has appeared on several BBC radio and television broadcasts with both ensembles.
Jo is an experienced music educator and is currently on the music staff of the Cathedral School in Llandaff, where she teaches piano. She also teaches singing for several theatre arts schools across South Wales including Stagecoach Theatre Arts and Fahrenheit Theatre Artz.
Her passion and versatility as a musician have led her to perform in several countries including Dubai, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Italy, Switzerland, and France and with a diverse range of artists including Bryn Terfel, Rebecca Evans, Hayley Westenra and Goldie Lookin' Chain.
February 2008