Director of Music and Leader
ROBIN BROWNING, Music Director of the Wimbledon Symphony Orchestra, also directs the Petersfield Orchestra, the Essex Youth Orchestra, Southampton University Symphony Orchestra, and the Philharmonic at the University of Hertfordshire, where he is a member of the university. Robin also runs the conducting course at Southampton University, and is a guest conductor with the Hertfordshire Chamber Orchestra, and at Junior Guildhall and Trinity College of Music. He has received many awards, including the inaugural Boosey and Hawkes Award at the Edinburgh Festival, and was a prizewinner in the 1994 Conducting Competition of the National Association of Youth Orchestras. He has conducted the Hallé, the Northern Sinfonia, the Orchestra of Opera North, the Royal Philharmonic (in a broadcast on Classic FM) and the Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris.
Robin is passionate about orchestras, and outside music, he enjoys climbing mountains, Tai Chi, and getting to grips with his garden.
CHARLOTTE EDWARDS (leader) has the double distinction of a Master’s degree in violin
performance from the New England Conservatory of Music and a doctorate in human genetics
from University College, London. Her career is now wholly given to music: as a
freelance violinist she leads and performs as soloist with a variety of ensembles.
Education has always been an important part of her musical work, and besides her
teaching activities, privately and at Surrey University, she is involved in a project
at Middlesex University, Trent Park, to perform and assess students’ own compositions
and dance. She has been leader of the Wimbledon Symphony Orchestra for the last twenty-
