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Aiyana is an undergraduate at the Royal College of Music in London and an RCM Scholar. She studies double bass with Rodrigo Moro Martín, Principal of the London Symphony Orchestra, and Enno Senft, Principal and Founding member of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
EDUCATION
BMus (Hons) programme Royal College of Music London and RCM Scholar 2023 - 2027
Chetham’s School of Music 2020-2023
Yehudi Menuhin School 2017-2020
Royal College of Music London Junior Department 2014-2020
PROFESSIONAL
Sinfonia Cymru 2024
Chineke! Orchestra 2020 - to date
Ruthless Jabiru 2022
Royal Ballet and Opera Overture Programme London Rehearsals 2024
SUMMER FESTIVALS | ORCHESTRAL / ACADEMY TRAINING
Miami Beach Classical Music Festival Principal Double Bass | Florida, USA 2024
National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute | Washington DC, USA | 2023
Royal Opera House London | ROH Overture Orchestral Mentoring Programme 2023/2024 season
London Philharmonic Orchestra Junior Artist 2020-2021
Recruiting Classical Consortium of Orchestras together with Black Lives in Music - Intensive Orchestral Development | 2023 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra | Royal Northern Sinfonia | Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra |
DOUBLE BASS | ORCHESTRAL EXPERIENCE
Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra | Philharmonic Orchestra | RCM Opera Orchestra 2024
London School of Economics Choir - Mozart Requiem Keble College Oxford University 2024
Amati Orchestra 2022-2023
Ernest Read Symphony Orchestra 2019 - to date
Epsom Light Opera Company My Fair Lady 2024
1885 Singers Orchestra 2023
The Sirius Orchestra 2023
Blackheath Halls Orchestra 2019 - to date
Whittington Festival Players 2023
London Euphonia Orchestra 2023/2024
Finchley Symphony Orchestra 2023
MASTER CLASSES | DOUBLE BASS TUTOR/MENTOR | 2018-2024
Ali Kian Yazdanfar Principal Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, member of the OSM Chamber Soloists, and renowned pedagogue.
Marco Behtash Principal Royal Opera House
Luis Cabrera Principal Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
Paul Ellison Professor Rice University Shephard’s School of Music
Ira Gold Associate Professor Peabody Conservatoire & New Symphony Orchestra
Aaron Olguin Principal Bass at Trondheim Symphony Orchestra
Jan Alm Bass Player, Composer, Teacher
Leon Bosch Conductor, soloist director, virtuoso bass player
Graham Mitchell Head of Strings Royal Academy of Music
Sebastian Pennar Co-Principal London Philharmonic Orchestra
SOLO CONCERTS / PERFORMANCES
Croydon Performing Arts Festival 2023
Chetham’s School of Music
Yehudi Menuhin School Summer Festival 2018 & 2019
COMPETITIONS
Radda Rise International String Competition Won Second Prize Double Bass & Cello Category 2022
BBC Young Musician String Category Round Audition Finals 2022
ORCHESTRAL | CHAMBER | JAZZ ENSEMBLE | MUSICAL THEATRE
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain 2020-2023
Royal College of Music Junior Department Symphony Orchestra 2017 -2020
Chineke! Junior Orchestra 2018-2023
Bass Club United Kingdom 2015, 2017, 2019
National Children’s Orchestra of Great Britain 2016-2019
Brand Nu Dollar | Sextet performing greatest works of Abdullah Ibrahim | March 2024 – Date 2024
National Youth Jazz Collective London & Southampton 2015-2017
National Youth Jazz Orchestra London 2014 & 2017-2018
British Youth Music Theatre 2019
MUSIC MENTOR
MishMash Productions Supporting Primary Education, Insight training project creating warm welcoming live music that supports primary education 2024
Chineke! Mentor supporting double bass youth musicians | Croydon Youth Orchestra and Chineke! Junior Orchestra.
Young Sounds Mentor Professional Development Completed Training 2024
OTHER EXPERIENCE
YouTube panel member with the Los Angeles Philharmonic YOLA National at Home Young Artist Series: Bass Forward with Chi-chi Nwanoku, Joseph Conyers and Dalanie Harris. Selected for the Bergen National Opera Summer Academy Opera by the Fjord 2023 and Saluzzo Opera Academy 2024.