James Golborn
Musical Director | Conductor
Professional Stick Waver
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James Golborn is a London-based pianist, conductor and composer with a unique background spanning both jazz and classical music. He studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, where he completed a Bachelor’s degree in composition and a Master’s degree in jazz percussion, graduating in 2016. Highlights of his time there included composing and co-producing full-length musical Fleeced!, which went on to tour to Edinburgh Fringe Festival after its initial run at The Gate Arts Centre in Cardiff, and conducting a performance of his piece Voyager I for 50-piece orchestra in the Dora Stoutzker Hall.
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Composition projects since have included a commission for narrator, two clarinets, string quartet and percussion for the Bristol-based Insight Ensemble; composing, arranging and underscoring musicals and plays for venues including Harlow Playhouse, the Union Theatre, the Gaiety Theatre (Isle of Man) and the Underbelly Festival at the Southbank Centre; and more recently recording flute and piano piece Erin with the Luna Duo.
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As well as composing for stage, James has over five years of experience as a musical director for professional stage productions. He went on to study classical conducting privately with Peter Stark and with John Landor on the London Musical Arts conducting course. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he has been acting conductor of the London Lawyers’ Chorus, preparing a virtual performance of Haydn’s Te Deum in C No. 2. James works as a ballet pianist at the Royal Academy of Dance, Pineapple Studios and the highly esteemed Thomas’ London Day Schools.
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For more information please visit www.jamesgolborn.com
Jordan Earnshaw
Leader
Awesome violinist
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From a young age Jordan has always been an avid performer, having picked up the violin at the age of 6. She studied as a scholarship student with Lowri Porter (CBSO, WNO) at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, before continuing her education with Nicole Wilson (LSO, ENO) as a master's student at the Royal Academy of Music.
Having graduated in 2022, Jordan has enjoyed a busy and varied freelance career. She has had the privilege of performing in many distinguished venues across the UK with Orchestras
including London Concert Orchestra, Mozart Symphony Orchestra, Down for the Count Swing Orchestra and the Urban Soul Orchestra, amongst others.
In 2020, she made her West End debut at the Dominion
Theatre with the London Musical Theatre Orchestra, where she has discovered her passion for musical theatre productions. Since then, she has toured the world with productions such as The Phantom of the Opera and Love Never Dies. She also appears regularly at Theatre Royal Drury Lane, most recently with
the In Concert productions of Oklahoma! and Something Rotten.
Alongside her orchestral work, Jordan is first violinist in her String Quartet, who perform a mixture of classical and pop works in and around London. She enjoys teaching violin, viola and piano privately, and in her down time is a keen runner, kickboxer, and novice Japanese language student.
Chris Childs
Founder| Chairman
RLO Daddy
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After taking up the violin for a hobby as an adult, Chris soon found himself playing in various amateur orchestras across London, where he discovered the joy of playing classical music. Chris is currently a long-term member of the Wandsworth Symphony Orchestra (where he also plays timpani) and has played violin as part of a pit band for local amateur productions of the musicals Funny Girl, Big Fish and Mel Brooks’s Young Frankenstein.
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Having previously played as the Leader of the City Showtunes Orchestra, Chris decided to combine his love of playing with his passion for musical theatre, and formed the Richmond Light Orchestra in 2021.
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Chris runs his own business from home, working both as a freelance Graphic Designer, and also as a Cake Artist.
