MICHELLE ANDREWS obtained her Bachelor of Music and postgraduate diploma at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, studying clarinet under Professors Joy Farrall, Andrew Webster and Thea King. She has also benefited from instrumental tuition from such luminaries as Charles Neidich, John Davies and Angela Malsbury, and won the Countess of Munster and Jaqueline du Pre awards.  Her freelance orchestral career takes her all round the South East of England, and locally she has been playing clarinet and bass with the Sussex Symphony Orchestra since 1996. She has also performed with the Philharmonia, the Haydn Chamber Orchestra, Surrey Sinfonietta, London Mozart Players and for a three week run of the musical Cabaret in the Edinburgh Festival.

Michelle has performed in most of the renowned venues in London and southern England and has toured Switzerland, Denmark, Germany, Jersey and France, where she performed the Weber Concertino in the Eglise Saint-Merri in Paris. During the summer she can sometimes be found entertaining guests on Swan Hellenic's magnificent Minerva whilst cruising in the Mediterranean, or playing at the International Summer School in Dartington.

She has given recitals at Stowe, Addington Palace, and Deal (at the Spring and Summer festivals), and at the festival of Norwegian music at the Barbican. Chamber music activities have included concerts in the Foreign office, Wigmore Hall, St James Piccadilly and in the first ISCM festival to be held in Britain for 25 years at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. She has also had the honour of performing for HRH Princess Anne at a musical celebration of the life of Jeremy Bentham at UCL.  Playing Principal clarinet in the recording of "A Bag of Surprises" released by Prelude Records in support of the Warchild charity, Michelle performed with Tom Conti, Richard Briers and Susannah York. Recently she has helped to raise over £19,000 for UNICEF in a celebration of Mozart's life at the Brighton Dome.