Chris Hamblin by MattOtti, St Danielle Del Friuli Dec 1979
(note the artist's impression of the bowing technique ..!)
photo Harare, 2001
Born: 1952, Wembley N W London
STATUS : British Citizen :: Musician
MARRIED: Vivienne
Hamblin 1980
CHILDREN: Miriam 20yrs,
Stephen & Thomas
(Twins) 16yrs
Contact E-mail: chrishamblin@tiscali.co.uk
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT, EMPLOYMENT HISTORY, EDUCATION, MEMBERSHIPS
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
Jan 03 - St Ronan's Prep, Hawkhurst
Peripatetic Violin/Viola/Cello & Classical Guitar
Jan 03 - 06 Supply Teaching Classical Guitar for ESMS Hastings & Rother
Area
June 03 - Celtic String Band formed with Guitarist Adrian Underhill. http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/twinarts/celticstringband/
Dec 2002 - Panel of Music Teachers for East Sussex Music Service (Violin/Guitar)
Nov 02 - Individual Violin/Viola/Guitar Lessons with private students
at home studio in St Leonards-on-Sea.
Continues to be the Webmaster of the weekly email Arts Event List for
Zimbabwe.
THE TWIN ARTS TRUST
Trustee: The Twin Arts Trust
Director: Twin Arts Pvt Ltd (Twin Arts Ltd UK formed Jan 2004)
Twin Arts was founded to further the twin arts of Music and Dance in Zimbabwe.
It was started as an umbrella organization for a range of artistic activities
in the context of Zimbabwe and now is operating in the same areas in UK.
Employment in three areas:
Since August 2002 -
relocated to UK main involvement
is now Administrative: Graphic Design of promotional material, liasing
with Artists, performers, sponsors, organizations and the public. Until
May 2004 Editor of the weekly Email Arts
Event List an initiative started by Twin Arts in May 2000
1998 - 2002
While in Zimbabwe activites
included those above and ::
1. Musical Direction: for productions
by DANCE PEOPLE and Elastic
Band, conducting String Orchestras of a variety of levels.
Entering students for ABRSM exams Violins Gde 1 -8, Viola 1 - 5, Double
Bass 1 - 5.
2. Teaching: the greatest portion of term-time work spent teaching the craft of String playing (Violin, Viola, Cello, Guitar, Double Bass) and of T'ai Chi. Counselling of students for further education.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
1991-98 Lecturer in Strings (Full-time)
at Zimbabwe College of Music, Harare
1993-96 Co-ordinator of Music (Part-time) at Prince Edward School, Harare
1990 Founder & Leader of the Elastic Band, Zimbabwe's only Celtic music group
1989 - 94 Teaching Classical Indian Tabla at the Hindu Society Harare (Part-time)
1989- Teacher of T'ai Chi Ch'uan (Part-time), Harare
1989-91 Co-Director of Dance Foundation Course at the National Ballet of Zimbabwe
1988-99 Co-ordinator: Time and Talents (String Outreach Project : SE London)
1980-89 Dance Accompanist (Part-time) Music for Dance in the foremost Contemporary Dance Studios including: Laban, Goldsmiths, LCD School, Central, Morley
1978-80 Solo performing artist including Celtic fiddle performances through Europe: at the Pier Paolo Calzolari (Italian Event Artist born 1943-) Event in Galleria Salvatore Ala '78 Milan & INK '79 Zurich,
Galleria Salvatore Ala '78 Milan ...on a playing on a brick wall, rollerskater & old man
First International Celtic Music Festival'79 Milan, Rome, St Danielle Del Friuli, Cante Del l'Uovo (Singing for Eggs) Festival Bra Piemonte '79. Touring with Whisky Trail around Switzerland recorded Dargai/Cameron Highlanders/ D'eil Amangst The Tailors on Whiskey Trail "MIRIANA" now on CD '78
Chris Hamblin & Velamir Dugina from Whisky Trail, Italy 1979
L'unita Festivals '79 and to Barcelona '80. Based in Zurich Switzerland '79 - 80, many performances with Champerlin.
1976-78 Assistant to Event Artist John Latham (1921 -2006 :: see archive of his Flat Time web site ) involved with Artists Placement Group (APG :: see photo by Chris Hamblin) attended Documenta 6 in '77 Kassel with APG and spent a month at the exhibition in the Free International University for Creativity organized by Joseph Beuys (1921 - 1986).
(photo G Brightwell '81)
EDUCATIONAL AND QUALIFICATIONS
1974-76 Slade School of Fine Art, UCL London HDFA (Lond.) Postgraduate Studies
1971-74 Chelsea School of Art Fine Art- Painting Dip AD (1st Class Hons.)
1970-71 Harrow School of Art Foundation Studies Distinction
1963-70 Latymer Upper School, Hammersmith 'A' level Art (O&C) and 'A' level Craft (Print Making) (AEB), 6 'O' Levels (Oxford & Cambridge)
PROFESSION AND TECHNICAL TRAINING
2005- Flamenco Guitar :: regular
study with Fergus Paton (Brighton) & Oct '07/Mar '08 London Pena Course with Antonio Francisco
1989 Ranche House College, Harare: 6 week Intensive Shona Language Course
1980-84 T'ai Chi Ch'uan, The School of T'ai Chi Ch'uan, London: Full Form and Teaching Studies.
1980- Mbira: Various Teachers in Zimbabwe
1980-83 Clasical Indian Tabla: Gurmeet Singh Virdee (1937 - 2005), Southall
1963-72 Violin with Kenneth Popperwell and Audrey Clifford, numerous other advisors of Celtic music in sessions in and around London & Ireland.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Zimbabwe Society of Music Teachers (Hon Treasurer 1996-98)
Association of Complementary Health Practitioners Zimbabwe (Full Member since
1991)
National Ballet of Zimbabwe (Teaching Member 1989 - )
UK Musicians Union
Chris Hamblin & Paul Roditi '99 Celtic Fiddle & Flamenco Guitar.
