Libby Griffin 2 - Music Student

Portrait and interview - 1993

Libby grew up in Birmingham in a family where music was always playing: her mother, although never taking up her place at the Royal Northern College, now sings.  Libby found that she could read music before she could read words and her first instrument was a recorder, shortly followed by the flute and the violin which she took up when she was nine years old.

Libby completed a music degree course at Dartington College of Arts, studying the violin under Malcolm Latchem.  At the beginning of the second year of her studies, she changed to the viola.  Although finding it difficult to begin with, she now prefers it to the violin which she no longer plays.

This autumn, Libby will be commencing a Post Graduate in Performance at Trinity College of Music in London and will again be studying under her viola teacher from Dartington – Keith Lovell.  Her aims are to play with a large symphony orchestra, but she will pursue free-lance work when her studies have finished.

Her tastes in music seem to go in phases and often depend on what she is playing at the time.  Presently, she is loving the Hindermith solo viola sonatas.

Libby has played locally in a quartet, busking in Totnes and performing at weddings with students from the college.

Update:  Not Known.