Gaynor Barradell

Gaynor was born in Coventry and was taught music from the age of 3 by her father before beginning formal violin lessons aged 8. Enrolling in music school as a teenager, she studied the flute with Bernard Hermann and vocal training with Patricia Garnham.

Before moving to Scotland in June 2009, Gaynor spent seven years playing with the Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra, studying the violin with Robert Meteyard (Orchestra of the Swan) and many more years performing with other Midlands orchestras, theatre pits, rock-ceilidh bands and blues bands (playing the saxophone).

She now lives in Glasgow and studies the flute at Edinburgh Napier University with Andrea Kuypers (Scottish Chamber Orchestra) and violin with Philip Burrin (Edinburgh Quartet) and has also recently completed a Graduate Diploma in Jazz at St Andrews University. She hopes to build a career in performing and teaching Jazz, Folk and Classical music to adult learners whilst completing the Bachelor of Music programme.

Gaynor plays her Dad's Justin Derazey Mirecourt Violin (1863) and a Sankyo CF401 Flute.