WHO WE ARE
BETH HIGHAM-EDWARDS
Beth is a percussionist and currently holds the percussion/bodhrán chair on the UK & Ireland tour of the musical Come From Away. Recent theatre credits include: The Tempest, King Lear, Measure for Measure, Macbeth, Henry V (dep), and Othello at Shakespeare’s Globe, Amadeus, Common, and Twelfth Night (dep) at The National Theatre, The Mirror and the Light and Pericles (dep) for the RSC, Mother Courage and Her Children for BBC Radio 4, and Inala (West End and international tour). Beth was music director on The Tempest and deputy MD on King Lear, Macbeth and Othello.
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Other artists and groups Beth has worked with include: Alter Bridge, Bring Me the Horizon, Alt J, Architects, Blanco White, Fionn Regan, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, BBC Singers, and the London Contemporary Orchestra.
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Beth is a creative associate for SWAP’ra (Supporting Women and Parents in Opera), and is on the board of trustees at the National Children’s Orchestra. Beth is passionate about music education and holds a teaching post at Junior Trinity Laban. Beth has led workshops with numerous organisations including the Benedetti Foundation, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Chamber Orchestra, Wigmore Hall, Royal Opera House Bridge, The Roundhouse, Britten Pears Arts, London Music Fund, the London Symphony Orchestra, and UK Music Masters.
Beth holds a practitioner level qualification in coaching accredited by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council, issued by the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Beth has mentored for: The Benedetti Foundation, UK Music Masters, Britten Pears Arts, and Music Mark. Beth has delivered a training sessions in coaching/mentoring for Creative Futures, BBC Orchestras, Future Sounds, and UK Music Masters.
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LETTY STOTT
As a professional French horn player, Letty has worked with many of the UK’s major orchestras including the BBC Concert Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, City of London Sinfonia and English National Ballet. She has worked with opera companies including English National Opera, English Touring Opera, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and Opera Holland Park.
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Letty has played for session recordings for TV and film and has toured with commercial artists globally. She has also worked extensively in theatre, with shows including the highly-acclaimed productions of Amadeus and Macbeth at the National Theatre , Julius Caesar with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Disney’s Lion King and Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
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Letty also has a keen interest in music archeology and held an Artistic Residency at Snape Maltings in 2019-20. Letty’s first commission as a composer (‘Cornicen’) was premièred in 2018 as part of a PLAYLIST concert series in Southampton and she has since written for Carnyx and voice (‘Metamorphosis’) as part of a commission from the Prehistoric Society. Letty plans to develop her work as both composer and performer with ancient forms of horn through embarking upon a PhD in 2022 and frequently performs on instruments including the Carnyx, Cornu and Scandinavian Lurs, most recently for a major Hollywood film.
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In 2023 Letty took up the new position of Head of Performance at Wells Cathedral School. Prior to this she held teaching posts at Trinity Laban Conservatoire, North London Collegiate School and Highgate School, where she was Head of Brass. Letty is also a Trustee of the Board of the National Children’s Orchestra.
REBECCA CELEBUSKI
Rebecca is a percussionist and teaching artist who is passionate about using the arts as a vehicle for social change. After graduating from music college in London, Rebecca moved to Melbourne to do a 'working-holiday' year, and then to Auckland where her next one-year working-holiday turned into seven. During this time Rebecca performed regularly with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, and tutored at the El Sistema-inspired programme Sistema Aotearoa. She also performed with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra whilst living down under.
In 2019-2020 Rebecca undertook a Graduate Certificate in Arts Innovation though the Global Leaders Program - a course specifically designed musicians looking to lead socially-motivated arts organisations. Keen to further the cause of gender equality in music, Rebecca joined GALSI in March 2022 shortly after moving back to the UK.
Alongside GALSI, Rebecca works regularly at the Royal Opera House, teaches in Oxfordshire at Chandlings Prep School and St Helen & St Katharine School, and is currently a trialist for the Section Leader Percussion position in the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland. In her spare time Rebecca enjoys sewing her own clothes and nerdy percussion things, as well as trail running and doing artistic gymnastics.
