Michelle Falcon
BA (Hons), CTABRSM, PG Dip (RWCMD), LTCL, FISM
Master Practitioner of Neuro-Lingusitic Programming (NLP)
NLP Coach
Biography
Michelle has over twenty-five years of string teaching experience having started her private practice in 1995. Born in Hampshire Michelle started playing the violin at the age of seven, won a county music award for private tuition and joined the Southampton Youth Orchestra, touring extensively abroad. These teenage musical opportunities cemented a life long love of music-making, particularly in ensembles.
University studies brought Michelle to Bath Spa where she gained a First Class Degree in English. Further studies in music (Certificate of Teaching (ABRSM) 1998 & Advanced Performance Certificate on violin 1999) led her to take up a post with Bath & North East Somerset Music Service. At this relatively late age, Michelle then discovered the joys of playing chamber music, setting up the Bath Spa String Quartet in 1998, fixing musicians and playing professionally for concerts, weddings and events in a thriving string quartet business.
In 2006 Michelle decided to further hone her own playing skills, studying violin with Lucy Gould and completing a Postgraduate Diploma at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 2009. At this time she also took up serious study of the viola with Martin Humbey (Academy of St Martin in the Fields), completing a Licentiate Diploma (LTCL) with Distinction in 2010 and has since converted to viola as her main instrument. As a viola soloist, Michelle has performed several solo recitals and concerti with orchestras across the UK. Professional work has involved tours across Europe and China with Hampshire Sinfonietta and the London Arte Chamber Orchestra. As part of continuing professional development Michelle regularly attends chamber music courses to be coached by world class players including the Gould Piano Trio, Endellion and Maggini String Quartets.
Michelle's collective experiences in life and as a musician, learner and performer inspire her teaching of people, young and old alike. An accumulation of knowledge, including an interest in neuroscience, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), psychology and Alexander Technique has led Michelle to approach her current instrumental teaching practice in a much more holistic way, taking in the broader aspects of music education, with a focus on developing mind, body and musical skills to their optimum. She remains passionate about her teaching practice and in particular the playing of chamber music.
Michelle holds a DBS check, Child Safeguarding Certificate (NSPCC), and O.A Dip in Counselling Adolescents and Children (Online Academies). She is member of several professional bodies including the ISM, as well as a qualified Master Practitioner and Coach in NLP, Hypnosis & Time Line Therapy™. Michelle is also a Regional Officer for the European String Teachers' Association UK.
In her spare time Michelle enjoys reading, photography and training dogs for Obedience and Working Trials.
Michelle has over twenty-five years of string teaching experience having started her private practice in 1995. Born in Hampshire Michelle started playing the violin at the age of seven, won a county music award for private tuition and joined the Southampton Youth Orchestra, touring extensively abroad. These teenage musical opportunities cemented a life long love of music-making, particularly in ensembles.
University studies brought Michelle to Bath Spa where she gained a First Class Degree in English. Further studies in music (Certificate of Teaching (ABRSM) 1998 & Advanced Performance Certificate on violin 1999) led her to take up a post with Bath & North East Somerset Music Service. At this relatively late age, Michelle then discovered the joys of playing chamber music, setting up the Bath Spa String Quartet in 1998, fixing musicians and playing professionally for concerts, weddings and events in a thriving string quartet business.
In 2006 Michelle decided to further hone her own playing skills, studying violin with Lucy Gould and completing a Postgraduate Diploma at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 2009. At this time she also took up serious study of the viola with Martin Humbey (Academy of St Martin in the Fields), completing a Licentiate Diploma (LTCL) with Distinction in 2010 and has since converted to viola as her main instrument. As a viola soloist, Michelle has performed several solo recitals and concerti with orchestras across the UK. Professional work has involved tours across Europe and China with Hampshire Sinfonietta and the London Arte Chamber Orchestra. As part of continuing professional development Michelle regularly attends chamber music courses to be coached by world class players including the Gould Piano Trio, Endellion and Maggini String Quartets.
Michelle's collective experiences in life and as a musician, learner and performer inspire her teaching of people, young and old alike. An accumulation of knowledge, including an interest in neuroscience, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), psychology and Alexander Technique has led Michelle to approach her current instrumental teaching practice in a much more holistic way, taking in the broader aspects of music education, with a focus on developing mind, body and musical skills to their optimum. She remains passionate about her teaching practice and in particular the playing of chamber music.
Michelle holds a DBS check, Child Safeguarding Certificate (NSPCC), and O.A Dip in Counselling Adolescents and Children (Online Academies). She is member of several professional bodies including the ISM, as well as a qualified Master Practitioner and Coach in NLP, Hypnosis & Time Line Therapy™. Michelle is also a Regional Officer for the European String Teachers' Association UK.
In her spare time Michelle enjoys reading, photography and training dogs for Obedience and Working Trials.
