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MMus, PGDip, PGCert, BMus(Hons)
Orchestral Experience
Playing Experience:
* Denotes a Principal Position where relevant.
- Electric Cinema Film Orchestra* (Including a recording of the film soundtrack to the 2011 documentary film “The Last Projectionist”) (2011)
- Sospiri Baroque Players (2011)
- Radley College Baroque Orchestra (2011)
- Marches Baroque* (2011)
- Operamus* (2010)
- Corelli Orchestra (2010 -
Present) - Brook Street Band* (2010)
- Purcell Orchestra (2010)
- Armonica Consort (2010 -
Present) - London Baroque Sinfonia (2010)
- Dunedin Consort (2010)
- Welsh Baroque Orchestra* (2010)
- Birmingham Bach Choir Baroque Orchestra (2010)
- St James Players (2010)
- Ex Cathedra Baroque Orchestra* (Including a Naxos Recording) (2009-
Present) - Opera Theatre Company Orchestra (Including a month tour of Ireland) (2009-
10) - Feinstein Ensemble (2009)
- Consort Pleon* (Including 3 concerto performances) (2009-
Present) - 18th Century Orchestra (2009-
Present) - Birmingham Cathedral Festival Orchestra* (2009)
- Linden Baroque Orchestra* (2009)
- Rick Wakeman ‘Six Wives Tour’ Rock Orchestra* (2009)
- Guildhall School of Music and Drama Classical Orchestra (2009)
- Nottingham Baroque Orchestra (2009)
- Manchester Baroque Festival Orchestra* (2009)
- Clare Baroque Orchestra (2009)
- Cambridge University Collegium Musicum* (2009)
- Charivari Agreable* (Including an Albinoni Oboe Concerto in 2010) (2008-
Present) - Phoenix Singers Charity Orchestra* (2008-
10) - Rachel Podger Baroque Orchestra* (2008-
Present) - Brecon Baroque* (2008-
Present) - Midlands Early Music Forum* (2008-
Present) - Orchestra Europa – Europes Orchestral Academy* (2008-
9) - Manchester Baroque (2008)
- Royal College of Music (RCM) Baroque Orchestra* (2008)
- La Nuova Musica (2008)
- Kenilworth Festival Orchestra* (2008)
- Gabrieli Consort and Players (Including a tour to Poland with a live TV and radio broadcast) (2008)
- Knighton and District Music Society Ensemble* (2008)
- Christian Union Ensemble* (As part of a CD Recording) (2008-
10) - Hampshire Sinfonietta* (Including an Albinoni double oboe concerto performed throughout a tour of France) (2008)
- Beauchamp Sinfonietta* (2008)
- Musical and Amicable Society Baroque Orchestra (2008)
- London Mozart Symphony Orchestra (LMSO)* (Including a Radio 3 Performance) (2007-
8) - Mortimer Society Productions* (Including a CD released in September 2008) (2007)
- Warwick Orchestral Winds* (2007)
- Birmingham Concert Orchestra* (2007)
- Central England Ensemble* (2007-
8) - Birmingham Symphonic Winds* (Including numerous recordings) (2007-
8) - Birmingham Sinfonia* (2007)
- Midlands Sinfonia* (2007)
- Birmingham Cathedral Chorus Orchestra* (2007)
- Leeds Baroque Orchestra (2007)
- Chandos Symphony Orchestra* (2007)
- London Brandenburg Baroque Sinfonia* (2007)
- Birmingham University Baroque Orchestra* (2007)
- Incorporated Society of Musicians Composers Ensemble (2006)
- BASBWE Regional Conference Wind Orchestra* (2006)
- Warwick ‘Chorum’ Singers Chamber Orchestra* (2006)
- Birmingham Conservatoire Thallein Ensemble* (Including a concert in Canterbury Cathedral in the presence of Boulez) (2005)
Solo Work
- Consort Pleon* (Including a tour of an Albinoni Oboe Concerto and Handel Trio Sonata
in 2011) (2010-
Present) - Belsize Baroque* (Including 2 Handel, 2 Vivaldi and 2 Venturini Concertos) (2009-
Present) - Charivari Agreable* (Including an Albinoni Oboe Concerto in 2010) (2008-
Present) - Soloist for the ‘Messiaen 2008 Centenary Conference’* (2008)
- Hampshire Sinfonietta* (Including an Albinoni double oboe concerto performed throughout a tour of Southern France) (2008)
- Birmingham Cathedral Recital Series Soloist* (2007)
- Birmingham Conservatoire Capelle Orchestra* (Including a Performance of a Vivaldi
Double Oboe Concerto in 2007 Conducted by Jeffery Skidmore) (2004-
9)
Chamber Music
- Consort Pleon* (Including a tour of an Albinoni Oboe Concerto and Handel Trio Sonata in 2011)
- International Double Reed Society Convention (IDRS) Baroque Oboe Marching Band* (2009)
- International Double Reed Society Convention (IDRS) Wind Ensemble* (2009)
- Mlardi Wind Sextet* (2008)
- Cinquevento Wind Quintet* (2008)
- Jackdaws ‘Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment’ Trio Sonata Course* (2007)
- Proteus Chamber Orchestra*(2007)
- Warwickshire Symphony Orchestra Chamber Ensemble (2006)
Residential Music Courses
- Dartington International Summer School Baroque Orchestra, Chamber Ensembles, & Oboe
Band* Sponsored by The Leverhulme Trust and Dartington International Summer School
– 90% Scholarships to study under Gail Hennessey and Mark Radcliffe (2007-
10) - York Trust Baroque Orchestra* (2008)
- Vacation Chamber Orchestra* (2008)
- London Amadeus Orchestra* -
50% Scholarship to study under Edwin Roxburgh for a tour of China (2007- 8) - Jackdaws ‘Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment’ Trio Sonata Course* (2007)
- City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) Youth Orchestra (Conducted by Sakari
Oramo) (2004-
5)