Martin Gatt; Neville Marriner: Academy Of St. Martin In The Fields

Began bassoon studies with Charles

Cracknell, principal with the Halle

Orchestra first privately and then as

a student at the Junior Department,

Royal Northern College of Music.

Continued studies with David

Chatwin, principal with the B.B.C.

Philharmonic Orchestra as a pupil

at Chetham`s School of Music, and

also recieved monthly consultation

lessons with Martin Gatt, principal

with the L.S.O.

Awarded a scholarship in 1983 to

study at the Guildhall School of

Music and Drama with Martin Gatt

and Graham Sheen, principal with

the B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra.

Also in 1983 awarded the National

Youth Orchestra`s prestigious

Lloyd`s Bank Prize jointly with

violinist Anthony Marwood.

Finalist, Shell/L.S.O. Music

Scholarship for Woodwind in 1985,

and in the same year a Prizewinner

at the Internationaler

Musikwettbewerb, Munich with the

British Wind Quintet.

In 1986 appointed Principal Bassoon

with the Orchestra of Welsh

National Opera.

Since then has played principal with

the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic

Orchestra, Royal Scottish National

Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony

Orchestra, B.B.C. National

Orchestra of Wales, and the

Philharmonia Orchestra

Member of the European Youth

Orchestra 1984/5

Recent solo engagements have

included Strauss: Duet Concertino

for Clarinet and Bassoon at Llantilio

Crosenni Festival, Hummel: Grand

Concerto with City of Cardiff

Symphony Orchestra, and Mozart:

Sinfonia Concertante for Wind at St.

David`s Hall, Cardiff for H.T.V.

with the Orchestra of W.N.O.

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A world of experience

and Mozart concerto with the

Orchestra of W.N.O. January 2002

Professor of Bassoon at the Welsh

College of Music and Drama

from1990

and

most recently the C.B.S.O.

and also with theAdderbury

Ensemble at the Sheldonian,

Oxford, 2005