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Aiyana is an undergraduate at the Royal College of Music in London and an RCM Scholar. She studies double bass with Rodrigo Moro Martín, Principal of the London Symphony Orchestra, and Enno Senft, Principal and Founding member of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
EDUCATION
Royal College of Music and RCM Scholar 2023 - 2027
Chetham’s School of Music 2020-2023
Yehudi Menuhin School 2017-2020
Royal College of Music London Junior Department 2014-2020
PROFESSIONAL ORCHESTRAS
London Philharmonic Orchestra | 2026
Chineke! Orchestra | 2020 - ongoing
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra | 2026
Brixton Chamber Orchestra | 2026
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | 2025
Hastings Philharmonic Orchestra | 2025
London Firebird Orchestra | 2024 - 2025
Sinfonia Cymru | Ankaben: Sidiki Dembélé | 2024
Orchard Street: The Opera' by Emma Butterworth - The Mount Without, Bristol | 2024
Ruthless Jabiru | 2022
Royal Ballet and Opera Overture Programme London Rehearsals | 2024
FESTIVALS | ORCHESTRAL ACADEMIES
Regents Park Music Festival | London 2025
Miami Beach Classical Music Festival Principal Double Bass | Florida, USA 2024
National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute | Washington DC, USA | 2023
Royal Ballet & Opera London | ROH Overture Orchestral Mentoring Programme Covent Garden 2023/2024
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra | Royal Northern Sinfonia | Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra | Recruiting Classical together with Black Lives in Music - Orchestral Development | 2023
London Philharmonic Orchestra Junior Artist | 2020-2021
ORCHESTRAL EXPERIENCE | UNITED KINGDOM
Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra | Philharmonic Orchestra | RCM Wind Ensemble| RCM Conductors Podium | 2022 - Ongoing | RCM Opera Orchestra | Merry Widow | Le Nozze Di Figaro | 2024
London Euphonia Orchestra | 2023 - ongoing
Angel Orchestra | 2025 - ongoing
New London Harmonia Orchestra | 2025
Ernest Read Symphony Orchestra | 2019 - 2025
London School of Economics | Choir - Mozart Requiem | Keble College Oxford University | 2024
Amati Orchestra | 2022-2023
Epsom Light Opera Company My Fair Lady | 2024
1885 Singers Orchestra | 2023
The Sirius Orchestra | 2023
Blackheath Halls Orchestra | 2019 - 2024
Whittington Festival Players | 2023
Finchley Symphony Orchestra | 2023
MENTORING YOUNG MUSICIANS | MUSIC EDUCATION
Royal College of Music Sparks | Mentor | 2024 - ongoing
Chineke! Junior Orchestra | Mentor | 2023 - ongoing
Music Masters | Assistant Music Educator | Mentor | Performer | 2025
Young Sounds | Mentor | 2024 -2025
MishMash Productions | Insight Training Project | 2024
MASTER CLASSES | DOUBLE BASS TUTOR / MENTOR | 2018-2025
Ali Kian Yazdanfar Principal Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, member of the OSM Chamber Soloists
Olivier Thiery Royal Concertgeboux Orchestra
Marco Behtash Teatro Real and Madrid Symphony Principal | Former Principal Royal Ballet & Opera House
Luis Cabrera Principal Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
Paul Ellison Professor Rice University Shephard’s School of Music
Ira Gold Associate Professor Peabody Conservatoire & New Symphony Orchestra
Aaron Olguin Principal Bass at Trondheim Symphony Orchestra
Jan Alm Bass Player, Composer, Teacher
Leon Bosch Conductor, soloist director, virtuoso bass player
Graham Mitchell Head of Strings Royal Academy of Music
Sebastian Pennar Co-Principal London Philharmonic Orchestra
SOLO CONCERTS / PERFORMANCES
Croydon Performing Arts Festival 2023
Chetham’s School of Music 2022 & 2023
Yehudi Menuhin School Summer Festival 2018 & 2019
COMPETITIONS
Radda Rise International String Competition 2022 Won Second Prize Double Bass & Cello Category 2022 Jury Panel | Elizabeth Faidley Manhattan School of Music | Giora Schmidt Violinist and John-Henry Crawford Cellist
BBC Young Musician String Category Round Audition Finals 2022
YOUTH ORCHESTRAS | JAZZ ENSEMBLE | MUSICAL THEATRE
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain 2020-2023
Royal College of Music Junior Department Symphony Orchestra 2017 -2020
Chineke! Junior Orchestra 2018-2023
Bass Club United Kingdom 2015, 2017, 2019
National Children’s Orchestra of Great Britain 2016-2019
Brand Nu Dollar | Sextet performing greatest works of Abdullah Ibrahim | 2024 – ongoing
National Youth Jazz Collective London & Southampton 2015-2017
National Youth Jazz Orchestra London 2014 & 2017-2018
British Youth Music Theatre 2019
OTHER EXPERIENCE
YouTube panel member with the Los Angeles Philharmonic YOLA National at Home Young Artist Series: Bass Forward with Chi-chi Nwanoku, Joseph Conyers and Dalanie Harris. Selected for the Bergen National Opera Summer Academy Opera by the Fjord 2023 and Saluzzo Opera Academy 2024.
John-Henry Crawford | Jury Comments | Radda Rise International String Competition