An evening of beautifully performed music from Rachael, Nick Taylor and her septet.

Rachel Cabey

Rachael born in Newcastle completed a Bachelor of Music degree in 2012 and then a Masters in Performance degree at the Royal College of Music in 2014. She studied clarinet with: Richard Hosford, Timothy Lines, Barnaby Robson and Janet Hilton.

Alongside clarinet lessons Rachael performed with a number of chamber ensembles. She performed Principal Clarinet with The RCM Philharmonic and RCM Symphony Orchestra including performing Mahler 7 conducted by Bernard Haitink. Rachael has participated in Master Classes with: Maximiliano Martin, Joy Farrall, Michael Whight, Mark Van Di Weil, Joan Enric Lluna, Chris Richards, Jozsef Balogh and Richard Stoltzman Rachael has given solo performances and chamber recitals around London and the North East. She performed principal clarinet with the Young Sinfonia at The Sage, Gateshead. Rachael was one of the first musicians to perform with her wind quintet in Hall One of The Sage Gateshead, which was televised on the BBC Culture Show. Rachael recorded the Brahms Trio for a BBC Radio 2 programme presented by Howard Goodall.

Rachael was awarded scholarships from the Kathleen trust, Countess of Munster Trust, the Sammy Johnson foundation, the Douglas and Hilda Simmonds Award and was awarded an e flat clarinet from the Cheribum Trust.After her studies, Rachael went on to teach woodwind for a number of music services and was the clarinet lecturer at Morley College teaching small classes of adults and directing the Morley Wind Ensemble.

Rachael then re-located to the Northeast where she became a woodwind teacher for Music Partnership North. She performed in a number of the New Generation Artists concert series, performing chamber music in Northshields, Seaton Delaval and Whitley Bay.

Rachael has also performed 2nd clarinet with Orchestra Northeast located in Durham.

During the summer of 2020 Rachael recorded the clarinet part in The Soldiers Return by Marcos Fernandez-Barrero. This was a unique Opera project to commemorate World War 1, the Opera was streamed online on remembrance Sunday by Opera Sunderland.

March 2023 performed 2nd clarinet in Sunderland Minster performing with Bradly Creswick the Beethoven Violin Concerto in D major Opus 61.

Nick Taylor Biography

Nick joined the army at 17, training at Kneller Hall, studying band arranging and harmony before arriving at the Coldstream Guards band. His role there was playing clarinet, violin and piano. Nick's main instrument was the piano which he studied with John Barstow from the Royal College of music. During this period Nick also performed Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ on numerous occasions.

After leaving the army in 1985, Nick attended the Colchester Institute studying piano with Robert Bell, a former Gold Medal winner at the Guildhall School of Music. Nick was a member of several chamber groups, performing works such as the Schumann Piano Quintet, Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart and Khachaturian piano trios. On graduating college with a BA (Hons) in music he became a music teacher at Stamford School in Lincolnshire until his retirement.

Nick has performed many different piano concertos with orchestras around the country: Tchaikowsky B flat minor, Rachmaninoff Concertos 2 and 3, Beethoven Op 37 No. 3, Op 58, No. 4, and the triple concerto Op. 56, Mozart D minor (K466), Bb major (K456) and A major K488, Grieg and Schumann A minor Piano Concertos, Mendelssohn 2nd Concerto, Gershwin F minor Concerto and smaller scale works such as the Litolf Scherzo, J. S. Bach Brandenburg concertosand his own Piano Rhapsody.

As a soloist, Nick has performed numerous piano recitals around the country, including works from all genres and musical periods, with a strong passion for the romantic period. His role as an accompanist has covered many years of varied and challenging repertoire.Nick has a particular love for composing his own music focusing mainly on orchestral music, much of which has been performed by various orchestras around the country, sometimes with Nick himself as the conductor.

Nick teaches piano and violin at Yamaha Music School.

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