Carole Jenner-Timms

Carole was born in 1948 and started to play the flute at the age of 12 in Bristol. Her first teacher was Jean Brazier, a member of the BBC West of England Players. From the age of 15 she had lessons from John Caldwell, a lecturer in the Music Department of Bristol University, and, in her final school year, she studied with Sebastian Bell, who was at that time Principal Flute in the BBC Welsh Orchestra. In 1967 Carole became a student at the Royal College of Music where she studied with Christopher Hyde-Smith for three years.

Since leaving the RCM Carole has played the flute extensively in the South West, working with many choral societies, operatic companies and orchestras including the London Mozart Players, the Academy of the BBC, the Royal Ballet, Travelling Opera, Gilbert and Sullivan For All and the Philharmonia of Bristol.

Carole has been teaching the flute since 1969 in London, Bristol and the South West for various private schools and Avon LEA. She taught at Wells Cathedral School from 1983–1990 then becoming the Deputy Head of Woodwind for Avon. Later she became an Area Team Leader for the Avon Music Service and was the Head of the Bath and North East Somerset Music Service from 1996 until 2008. She returned to Wells Cathedral School as a flute teacher in 2009.

Carole has tutored the flute sections for the Avon Schools’ Symphonic Wind Band and the County of Avon Schools’ Orchestra and accompanied these ensembles on tours of Norway, Spain and Portugal, the Gulf States, USA and Denmark and Sweden. She was tour leader for the West of England Schools’ Symphonic Wind Band’s tour to Barcelona in 1997 and the Schools’ Philharmonic Orchestra (Bath and North East Somerset) tour in 2002 to Aix-en Provence.

In 1982, Carole formed a very successful flute ensemble called “Flutes Galore” that she directed for 20 years. The group featured piccolos, alto and bass flutes, played a wide repertoire from Bach to jazz, gave many concerts in the South West and was featured on the Radio 2 Arts Programme.

Carole was the Flute Specialist contributor for the Boosey Woodwind Method published in 2001, compiled the GSMD Flute Syllabus Grades 1-5 for the 2002-2006 Guildhall Syllabus and was a Chapter Author for the ABRSM’s award winning publication “All Together” in 2004.

Carole has been a CTABRSM Woodwind Mentor since the course’s inception in 1995 and is also a mentor for the Trinity OU KS2 Music CPD Programme, the ABRSM’s new online course “Being an Effective Teacher” and the Federation of Music Services’ leadership development course “Rising with the Tide”. She is also a Music Service Evaluation Partner and has recently gained the Institute of Leadership and Management Diploma in Management Coaching and Mentoring.

Carole is married, has two children, four grandchildren and enjoys keeping fit, yoga, tap dancing, cooking and gardening in her spare time.