Hilary Tunnicliffe, LRAM, GRSM

Hilary Tunnicliffe is a musician and writer of wide experience. She gained a scholarship to study music (piano and cello) at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and has taught it throughout her life. For thirteen years she also served as an Examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. As piano soloist Hilary has performed concertos by Mozart and Beethoven with local orchestras and chamber music with smaller groups. As a composer she has written and arranged music for amateur productions of several plays, including Yeats' Countess Cathleen, Shakespeare's As You Like It and, in partnership with her husband, the original play The Bridge (1997). Her various music teaching publications, in particular the successful and widely used beginners course book Shropshire Cello, are witness to her skill and versatility as an all-round musician.

Hilary Tunnicliffe is a talented writer. Her play The Butcher was produced in repertory at the Belgrade Studio Theatre, Coventry, and she has also written other plays, a novel and short stories. She lives in Shropshire, is married to Stephen Tunnicliffe and has two sons, the younger one being the cellist Richard Tunnicliffe.

Stephen Tunnicliffe, MA (Lond.)

Stephen Tunnicliffe read English at Queen Mary College, University of London, where he also gained his teaching diploma. He taught English in secondary schools, serving as head of department for many years. He plays cello and double-bass, and for four years taught both instruments as peripatetic music tutor in North Powys, Wales. During the Cold War years he was active in the European peace movement on both sides of the Iron Curtain.

Stephen Tunnicliffe has written books for English teaching, including the widely used Revise English (Letts) and Poetry Experience (Methuen), novels, short stories and poetry. As a librettist he has collaborated with the composer John Joubert in several choral works most recently for the oratorio "Wings of Faith". Joubert has recently set his poem "Building" as a Scena for tenor and piano, Op.147 with the title "On Offa's Back". Stephen lives with his wife Hilary in Shropshire. They have two sons.

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