The friend said she encouraged her to report the incident, and later the woman told her friend she “hadn’t told me everything that happened, as something even worse happened to him grabbing my butt“.
Repko has led music masterclasses around the world, he also taught at Chetham’s School of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, he spent five years as concertmaster of the Northern Philharmonic Orchestra in the Netherlands and is a co-founder of the Netherlands Youth String Orchestra.
Southwark crown court heard the woman told a friend a “horrible“ incident had happened during the lesson, but she feared making an official report to police and the prestigious school.
The friend told the court: “She called me and started talking, she said she was feeling pretty horrible about something that happened to her.
The woman said she continued playing the piece of music, and afterwards Repko praised her talent and suggested they would make a “good partnership“, the court heard.
