Education

1982-86 Royal College of Music, London

Studied with Timothy Brown, and Julian Baker

Dip (RCM) Performance

Dip (RCM) Teaching

Awarded Douglas Moore Prize for Orchestral Horn Playing

1984-86 Britten-Pears School, Aldeburgh

1986-88 European Community Youth Orchestra

Employment: September 2004 onwards

Principal Horn ViVA Sinfonia (Chamber Orchestra)

Freelance Orchestral work

Chamber Music

Britten Sinfonia

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Birmingham Opera

Conducting/directing/coaching Chamber music and orchestra studies/teaching at:

Rugby School.

Solo Horn, Esbjerg Ensemble, Denmark

(2003-04 Guest Principal Horn Denmark’s National Radio Symphony Orchestra)

Trio Cordiano (Vln, Hn & Pno)

Freelance: Guest Principal Horn Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

London Symphony Orchestra

Music & Media Commercial recording (film/TV/radio/CD/CDROM/DVD etc.)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Guest Principal Horn Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Guest Principal Horn Aarhus Symphony Orchestra

Guest Principal Horn Aalborg Symphony Orchestra

Guest Principal Horn Vlaams Radio Symphony Orchestra

Principally working for Royal Philharmonic Orchestra,

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Commercial recording (film/TV/radio/CD/CDROM/DVD etc.)

Solo recital and chamber music.

And general freelance work with…

BBC Concert Orchestra BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra BBC Symphony Orchestra

Bournemouth Sinfonietta Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

City of London Sinfonia City of Oxford Orchestra

English Sinfonia English National Opera

English Touring Opera Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt)

London Virtuosi Brass Ensemble London Soloists Chamber Orchestra

Music Theatre Wales Royal National Theatre, London

Philharmonia Orchestra Royal Flanders Philharmonic Orchestra

Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet

Welsh National Opera Commercial music, shows etc.