PETER SPARKS

MA (Hons) Cantab, PGDip (RAM), LGSMD (PPD), LRAM

Clarinet (+ doublings)

www.peter-sparks.co.uk

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ORCHESTRAL EXPERIENCE

Professional

• City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra – Guest Principal
• Philharmonia – Extra (Including trial & Eb/Bass Clar)
• London Symphony Orchestra – Extra
• Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Extra (Including Eb/Bass Clar)
• Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra – Extra (Including Bass Clar)
• English Symphony Orchestra – Guest Principal
• BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra – Extra (including trial and Bass Clar)
• Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra – Extra (Including trial & Eb/Bass Clar)
• London Concert Orchestra – Guest Principal
• Glyndebourne Touring Opera – Member & Sub-Principal 
• Milton Keynes City Orchestra Chamber Ensemble – Guest Principal
• Kokoro (Contemporary Music Ensemble of BSO) – Extra
• Guildford Philharmonic – Extra (Including Principal & Eb)
• Lancashire Sinfonietta – Guest Principal
• London Soloists Chamber Orchestra – Extra (Including Principal)
• English Classical Players – Extra
• Telford New Symphony Orchestra – Principal (2005 – Current)
• Chamber Orchestra Anglia – Principal 
• New York City Ballet (at The Coliseum, London)
• New Professionals Orchestra – Extra (Including Principal & Eb Clar)
• Opera East Productions – Principal (2000 – Current)
• Southbank Sinfonia – (Member and Soloist 2002 – 2003)
• Iford Opera – Principal (2005 – Current)
• European Opera Orchestra
• Dartington Festival Orchestra
• St Endellion Festival Orchestra – Guest Principal
• Russian Chamber Orchestra of London – Guest Principal
• Opera South – Guest Principal
• Cameo Opera (Bob Porter) – Guest Principal
• BBC Philharmonic Orchestra – Extra List
• BBC National Orchestra of Wales – Extra List
• Orquesta Sinfonica de Madrid – Finalist and Reserve for Principal (2003)

Training

• UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra – Member including Principal (2002-2004) 
• London Sinfonietta/RAM – QEH (2002)
• LSO/RAM Wind Scheme – (Including Daphnis et Chloë Boulez 2000 - 2001)
• Britten-Pears Orchestra
• National Youth Orchestra of GB – Member including Principal (1995-1998)    

SOLO AND ENSEMBLE EXPERIENCE

• Park Lane 2008 Solo Recital – Purcell Room, Premieres by P. Wiegold and N. LeFanu
• Solo Performance on BBC Radio 3 ‘In Tune’
• London Winds, dir. Michael Collins (BBC Proms, Wigmore Hall, QEH & Far East tour)
• Scottish Ensemble (Wigmore Hall)
• English Symphony Orchestra Winds
• Endymion Ensemble
• Nash Ensemble/RAM (QEH)

• Concertos

~ Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – Weber Concerto No. 1

~ English Symphony Orchestra – Mozart Concerto

~ Lancashire Sinfonietta – Mozart Sinfonia Concertante for Winds

~ Orchestra of the City - Finzi

~ St. James’ Piccadilly – Copland Clarinet Concerto

~ Chamber Orchestra Anglia – Maconchy Concertino No. 2

~ Southbank Sinfonia – Mozart Concerto & Adams Gnarly Buttons

~ Peter Wiegold - New York, Bass Clarinet Concerto (World Première)

~ Cambridge University Musical Society - Adams Gnarly Buttons & Debussy

Première Rhapsodie

~ Cambridge University Symphony Orchestra – Stanford Concerto

~ RNCM – Strauss Duett-Concertino

• Winner – Geoffrey Hawkes Clarinet Competition & Harold Craxton Chamber Music Competition (2002)
• Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition    Finalist (2001 & 2003)
• Gallimaufry Wind Ensemble – Park Lane Series – Purcell Room – RAM Fellowship (Member 2000 - Current) www.gallimaufry-ensemble.com
• Farrington Ensemble – Piano Trio with Clarinet (Member 2000 - Current) www.farringtonensemble.com
• Kreisler Ensemble – Guest Principal, including Purcell Room
• Opera North/Mira Calix (incl. Festivals at the Barbican, Leeds and York)
• Contemporary Consort

RECORDINGS

• BBC Radio 3 & TV; Naxos; Black Box Records; Walton Façade (with Kit and the Widow); RAM

EDUCATION

· Royal Academy of Music – PGDip (With Distinction) (2000-2002)

· Cambridge University – MA (Hons) Downing College (1997-2000)

· Professors: Dame Thea King § Angela Malsbury § Nick Rodwell § Richard Addison (Bass & Eb)

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