Dolma Chiodak
Trumpeter/Mezzo-soprano
Dolma is currently in her second year of her undergraduate degree, studying the trumpet at Birmingham Conservatoire under Alan Thomas and Andrew Stone-Fewings. Previously Dolma has been a member of the London Youth Wind Band directed by Geoffrey Harniess her old teacher of seven years who also runs the Centre for Young Musicians where she studied trumpet and piano for eight years. She then progressed to the London Schools Symphony Orchestra with termly concerts held at the Barbican working with guest conductors such as Heinz Karl Gruber and Carlos Izcaray. With both groups she has toured around Europe including Czech Republic, Germany, Poland and Belgium. This year Dolma has taken up singing as her second study and has been having lessons under Yvonne Sandison.