Penny also led several Youth Orchestras, featuring as soloist in Rimski Korsakov’s Capriccio Espagnole and Saint Saens’ Danse Macarbre before going on to Graduate from Liverpool University with a BA in Music. She then did a postgraduate course at the Royal Northern College of Music, gaining her PGCE and an RNCM Certificate in String Teaching. She is currently Head of Music in a Lancashire High School and with sister Emily Beth a co-founder of the duo Ponticello (click on link below for more).