Cressida has extensive experience as a freelance viola player working with orchestras, chamber ensembles, recording sessions and TV work. She is a member of the Santiago string quartet. She also organises musicians for corporate events, parties and weddings. She teaches violin and viola using the Colourstrings method both privately and at Donhead School. Recording and TV work: ITV - The Sound of Music BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge Ella Eyre ITV - The Brit Awards - Muse ITV - Popstar to Operastar ITV – The Alan Titchmarsh Show, Hayley Westenra Madness in concert, Earls Court Olympia Glastonbury Festival - The Lightning Seeds on the Pyramid Stage Sessions for Boosey & Hawkes Sessions for Urban Soul Orchestra including Keane and Nitin Sawhney Sessions with John Toussaint for the album The Streets above the Underground Sessions for Orchestra Nova Colony Productions - 'Strung' Orchestral Work: BBC Philharmonic including trial - tutti City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra including trial - tutti BBC Scottish Orchestra including trial - tutti Helsinki String Orchestra - Principal including solo performance on MTV2 English National Ballet Opera Holland Park Birmingham Opera Company Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra City of London Sinfonia London Concertante London Orchestra da Camera Chamber Music: Member of the Santiago Quartet The Lale Quartet The Nephele Ensemble Tamora Quartet Grimeborn Opera Festival Solo Recitals: The Great Room, Prussia Cove Hyde Park Chapel and Kingston Parish Church, London Javeriana University, Colombia, South America Les Salons des Masters de Pontlevoy, France Lee Memorial Hall, Devon Music In Education: Ongoing teaching at Colourstrings music school, Roehampton and Donhead school. Coaching sectionals at Kings College school in Wimbledon. City of London Sinfonia education work. Previously taught at Dulwich College and King Solomon Academy and took sectionals of the Helsinki String Orchestra in Finland.