Lisa Wigmore
Leader
Lisa has been leader of the ESO since the mid-1980s; she is also a member of the adjudicating panel for the annual competition.
Born and educated in Eastbourne, at 15 she was awarded a junior exhibition to the Royal College of Music and continued her studies there under Jack Steadman in the senior department, where she gained her ARCM and GRSM. Since leaving the RCM she has studied under Tina Gruenberg.
Lisa is a well-known violin teacher in Sussex, teaching privately as well as working in the Strings Department at Eastbourne College. She also took part in a masterclass with Yfrah Neaman on behalf of the European String Teachers Association (ESTA).
Lisa is involved with many local music-making groups and in her spare time enjoys being with her family and walking her retriever in the Sussex countryside.