Penny Driver
Penny performs with a wide variety of
ensembles and orchestras giving concerts all over the world with
the London Symphony Orchestra, London Mozart Players, Orchestra of
the Age of Enlightenment and John Eliot Gardiner’s Orchestre
Revolutionaire at Romantique. She was co-principal with the
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra from 1990 to 1995 and has performed as
recitalist and chamber musician in festivals and series throughout
Britain.
Penny was a student of Ralph
Kirshbaum whilst at Cambridge University and at the Royal Northern
College of Music. She spent two years in Chicago on a Countess of
Munster scholarship studying with Marc Johnson of the Vermeer
Quartet, and was a finalist in the Chicago Symphony’s Concerto
Competition. She also worked with Natalya Shakhovskaya at Moscow
Conservatoire.
In addition to her teaching at the
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Penny also teaches the
cello at Wells Cathedral Specialist Music School.