Mandy Burvill

Mandy studied at Trinity College of Music, London, with Keith Puddy and Hale Hambleton, and subsequently spent 10 years as 2nd and E flat clarinet in the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. She is currently pursuing a varied freelance career, working regularly as guest principal with orchestras including the Hallé, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Manchester Camerata and Northern Ballet.

Mandy has always been interested in breaking down barriers in classical music and, since leaving the RLPO, she has particularly enjoyed being able to focus more on outreach work, bringing music to spaces other than concert halls, and making music in a more intimate way with smaller audiences. She has been heavily involved in the RLPO and Mersey Care’s award-winning Musician in Residence programme, leading weekly sessions with adults and older people with cancer, mental health problems, dementia, learning disabilities and brain injury. Mandy has completed a Masters in Psychology for Musicians and, more recently, a Masters in Counselling and Psychotherapy
where she researched musician authenticity.

She has taught at the Royal Northern College of Music, Leeds College of Music, the University of Manchester and the University of Liverpool, and enjoys coaching on chamber music courses and summer schools.

Mandy has made numerous concerto appearances around the UK with orchestras including Manchester Camerata and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; she gave the second British performance of the virtuosic clarinet concerto by Magnus Lindberg, as well as premiering Ian Stephens’s Clarinet Concerto, written for her in 2019.