PETER SPARKS

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

Clarinet (+ doublings)

 

www.peter-sparks.co.uk

 

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ORCHESTRAL EXPERIENCE

 

Professional

  • BBC Symphony Orchestra - Guest Co-Principal/Eb Clarinet (Current Trial)
  • Philharmonia – Guest Principal and Extra (Including trial & Eb/Bass Clar)
  • Academy of St. Martin in the Fields – Guest Principal
  • Ulster Orchestra – Guest Principal (Including Trial)
  • Manchester Camerata – Guest Principal
  • City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra – Guest Principal
  • London Symphony Orchestra – Extra 
  • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Extra (Including Eb/Bass Clar)
  • Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra – Extra (Including Bass Clar)
  • Royal Ballet Sinfonia – Guest Principal
  • 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 
  • Orchestra of St Johns - Extra
  • Brighton Philharmonic – Extra (Eb Clarinet)
  • Milton Keynes City Orchestra Chamber Ensemble – Guest Principal
  • Kokoro (Contemporary Music Ensemble of BSO) – Extra
  • Guildford Philharmonic – Extra (Including Principal & Eb)
  • Lancashire Sinfonietta – 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 Chloλ 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 Premiθre)

~  Cambridge University Musical Society - Adams Gnarly Buttons & Debussy

    Premiθre 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
  • Ensemble 360
  • Linos Wind Quintet
  • Ossian Ensemble
  • 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 Faηade (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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