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JACQUELINE COLE was born in Warwickshire in 1958 and ten years later became a pupil at the Yehudi Menuhin School where she studied with Marcel Gazelle, Yaltah Menuhin, Marcel Ciampi and Barbara Kerslake and participated in master classes given by Nadia Boulanger and Vlado Perlemuter.
Between 1970 and 1975 she toured with the Menuhin School as a soloist as well as an accompanist in the U.K., Holland, Switzerland and the United States. In 1978 she obtained the Associate of Guildhall School of Music Performer's Diploma while studying with James Gibb and also received a grant from the Worshipful Company of Musicians, which enabled her to stay for an extra year at the Guildhall studying piano with Norman Beedie and composition with Patrick Standford.
In 1981 she obtained a Diploma in Music Therapy from the Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy Centre, and in 1983, an interest free loan from the Countess of Munster Trust enabled her to purchase a piano.
In 1986 the French Government awarded Jacqueline a bursary and she also received a Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Foundation Scholarship for the special project of working on Olivier Messiaen's piano repertoire with Yvonne Loriod Messiaen in Paris, between 1986-1987. In 1987 she entered the Conservatoire at St. Maur-des-Fosses to learn the technique of the Ondes Martenot with Jeanne Loriod. She was then awarded a special bursary to go to the Centre Acanthes at Villeneuve les Avignon and selected as an active participant in Olivier Messiaen's analysis class. Also studying piano with Madame Loriod, Roger Muraro, Pierre Laurent-Aimard and the Ondes Martenot with Jeanne Loriod. She was one of four pianists chosen to perform in the final concert in the presence of the composer Olivier Messiaen.
"Thank you Jacqueline Cole for your most poetic interpretation of 'Alouette Lulu'. With all my very friendly congratulations."
Olivier Messiaen, July 1987
"Hopes and thoughts………….."
Nadia Boulanger, May 1972
"Jacqueline Cole is a very talented pianist who possesses an excellent technique and cultivated musicianship."
Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen, May 1987
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