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About Grady

Growing up surrounded by musicians, learning a musical instrument was almost an inevitability for Grady. Upon taking up the tuba, with support from his brass teaching father, Grady was soon playing with the National Youth Brass Band of Wales, the National Youth Orchestra of Wales and the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.
He is a recent graduate of the Royal College of Music, having completed a Masters in Performance with distinction, where he studied under Lee Tsarmaklis and Peter Smith. Whilst at RCM, Grady was a recipient of the Michael Quinn Award, the Parnassus Award and Study Award as well as winner of the 2019 tuba prize. Prior to pursuing a career in music, Grady studied a Bachelors in Biological Sciences at Imperial College London.
From 2019 to 2020, Grady participated in the LPO Foyle Future Firsts professional development scheme. During this time, Grady had the opportunity to regularly play alongside members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, making his professional debut with the orchestra in January 2020.

Grady has since performed with many of the UK's leading professional orchestra, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra.

In addition to his performing career, Grady is a peripatetic brass teacher for both the Triborough Music Hub

Experience

Orchestral Experience

Musical Education

Teachers

Notable Achievements

Notable Performances

  • Guest Principal with London Symphony Orchestra

  • Guest Principal with the CBSO (currently on trial)

  • Guest Principal with the Royal Opera House (currently on trial)

  • Guest Principal with Welsh National Opera

  • Guest Principal with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (currently on trial)

  • Guest Principal with Opera North

  • Guest Principal with Birmingham Royal Ballet

  • Guest Principal with London Philharmonic Orchestra

  • Guest Principal with Philharmonia Orchestra

  • Guest Principal with Irish National Opera

  • RCM Chamber Orchestra/Chamber Orchestra of Europe collaboration

  • COOL Music Sessions

  • Royal College of Music MPerf 2018-2020 (Distinction)

  • Royal College of Music (as a music scholar at Imperial College London) 2014-2017

  • Birmingham Junior Conservatoire 2011-2013

  • Peter Smith (Philharmonia) 

  • Lee Tsarmaklis (London Philharmonic Orchestra) 

  • Graham Sibley (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra) 

  • Winner of the Yorkshire Open Slow Melody Competition Open Category 2021

  • Winner of the ERSO concerto competition 2020

  • Won a place on the LPO Foyle Future First scheme for 2019-2020

  • Won the 2019 tuba prize at RCM

  • Awarded the Parnassus scholarship at RCM 2019

  • Winner of the LGSO concerto competition 2016

  • Flashes of Light in a Hall of Mirrors for solo tuba (Papp) with ERSO 2022

  • Vaughan Williams Tuba Concerto with LGSO 2016 and ERSO 2021

  • Alan Ridout Concertino for Tuba with Imperial College Symphony Orchestra 2016

  • Capuzzi tuba concerto with National Youth Young Strings of Wales 2015

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