Amélie Addison
Amélie Addison studied cello and baroque cello at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Trinity Laban College of Music and Dance, and has worked as a freelance orchestral, chamber and session player, community music practitioner, instrumental, theory and musicianship tutor, and summer school coach. While in London she co-founded Christian baroque music ensemble Dei Gratia, and has performed and recorded with the New Scottish, New English and All Souls Orchestras. Due to injury and chronic pain she stepped back from performing to complete a PhD in historical musicology at the University of Leeds in 2023, where she also taught undergraduate seminars in harmony and music history, and coached ensembles and performance classes.
During 2023/24, Amélie held a postdoctoral fellowship from Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute, where she traced the careers of Victorian circus bandsmen, and a British Society of Eighteenth Century Studies / Northumbria University Fellowship to investigate transmission of popular tunes between theatre, manuscript and oral traditions in Tyneside and Northumberland. In September 2024, Amélie was appointed a lecturer in Music at Northumbria University. She became a Christian while studying cello in Glasgow, was a committed member of CUs as a student, and has acted as a mentor and occasional speaker supporting students at Leeds Conservatoire. A scripture Amélie holds onto is Psalm 73:25-26.