Henri Bok devoted his life to the bass clarinet, inspired as an adolescent by the great Eric Dolphy. He has been a promotor of the bass clarinet and its repertoire for more than 25 years, both as a performer and a teacher. Since 1981 he is Professor of Bass Clarinet at the Rotterdam (Superior) Conservatoire, where the unique bass clarinet program attracts students from all over the world.
Henri Bok invented unusual, but very effective new chamber music formations, such as Duo Contemporain (bass clarinet and marimba/vibraphone), Duo Novair (bass clarinet and accordion), Bass Instincts (bass clarinet and bass oboe) and Clarones (with Luis Afonso "Montanha".
Hundreds of new compositions have been written for and dedicated to Henri Bok by renowned composers from all over the world. He is often invited to give concerts and masterclasses in Europe, North & South America, Australia and Asia.
Henri Bok has recorded over 20 CDs, has written articles for many important music magazines and is the author of the standard work for his instrument: "New Techniques for the Bass Clarinet".
Following his début at the age of eighteen as soloist in the Mozart Clarinet Concerto with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain at the Edinburgh International Festival, Colin Bradbury studied at the Royal College of Music, London, with Frederick Thurston, completed National Service in the Irish Guards Band, played for Sadler's Wells Opera and then for over thirty years was Principal Clarinet of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, working with conductors from Boult to Boulez. His many solo performances with them included the concertos of Debussy, Mozart, Weber and Nielsen at Henry Wood Promenade Concerts. Since 1980 he has also worked with the pianist Oliver Davies, whose wide knowledge of nineteenth century music led to their performing and recording many little known works, and ultimately to the expansion of the standard clarinet repertoire. They have so far made four CDs of their discoveries, three of them for Clarinet Classics. The latest of these, The Obbligato Clarinet, was released last year on The Divine Art label, and in 1997 Colin Bradbury founded Lazarus Edition to meet the demand by clarinettists worldwide for printed versions of this freshly discovered material. Also for The Divine Art Colin Bradbury has recorded the Sonatas of Brahms and Hindemith with Bernard Roberts, renewing a partnership which began in their student days at the RCM.
Appointed Professor of Clarinet at the Royal College in 1963, he became the College's first Head of Woodwind, and the harmonie ensemble which he founded performed under his direction throughout the United Kingdom as well as in Vienna and Japan.
Colin Lawson is Director of the Royal College of Music. He has an international profile as a period clarinettist and has played principal in most of Britain's leading period orchestras, notably The Hanover Band, The English Concert and the London Classical Players, with whom he has recorded extensively and toured world-wide. Described recently as 'a brilliant, absolutely world-class player' (Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung) and ‘the doyen of period clarinettists’ (BBC Music Magazine), he has appeared as soloist in many international venues, including London's major concert halls and New York's Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. His discography comprises concertos by Fasch, Hook, Mahon, Mozart, Spohr, Telemann, Vivaldi and Weber, as well as a considerable variety of chamber music. Among his most recent recording is a highly-acclaimed disc of basset horn trios by Mozart and Stadler and a recital disc entitled ‘100 Years of the Simple-System Clarinet’.
Colin has an especially close association with Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, which he plays regularly on both period and modern basset clarinets. In addition to directing performances of the work, he has played it in collaboration with conductors such as Roy Goodman, Christopher Hogwood, Roger Norrington and Joshua Rifkin. He is also the author of a Cambridge Handbook to Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, which investigates the work’s genesis, composition and construction, as well as the career of the dedicatee Anton Stadler and his newly invented basset clarinet.
Colin’s other publications for Cambridge University Press include The Cambridge Companion to the Clarinet and a Cambridge Handbook to Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet. He is co-editor of a new series of Cambridge Handbooks to the Historical Performance of Music, for which he has co-authored an introductory volume (1999) and a written a book on the early clarinet (2000). He is also editor of the new Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra (2003). Combining an academic career with performing activities, he taught at the Universities of Aberdeen, Sheffield and London before his appointment in 2001 as Pro-Vice Chancellor at Thames Valley University, where he was Dean of the London College of Music & Media until 2005.
The Clarinet Section, a sextet of leading London based professional freelance players, was formed in 1998 with the intention of exploring the extant original repertoire whilst also inspiring new and challenging music.
Using the standard instrumentation of Eb, two Bb, alto, bass and contra-alto or contra-bass clarinets as its basis, the members of the group offer a very extensive range of doubling over the entire family which enables the use of some unusual instrumental combinations. The low clarinets used by the players in this group have all been adapted with extended downward ranges and specially made wooden bells (in place of the manufacturers’ original metal versions) to enhance the richness and warmth of the sound.
Whilst ensuring regular performances of the few outstanding original works for the medium such as Mozart’s Adagio K411, Florent Schmitt’s Sextour and Michael Henry’s Chorale Variations the large number of transcriptions, made by members of the group, allow unique recital programmes.
Philippe Cuper
Born in Lille, his teachers have been : G.Voisin (a student of Louis Cahuzac), G.Dangain, H.Druart, G.Deplus, Philippe Cuper went to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris and in 1980 he won the first price for chamber music. He also studied musicology at the Sorbonne and was advised by J.Lancelot and S.Drucker of the New York Philharmonic.
His success in international competitions is also impressive : Genève, Vercelli (1979), Munich (overall price in 1982), Prague (1986 unanimous first price), Slovak price , MRAVINSKY medal St Petersbourg. Philippe Cuper now sits on the jury in Munich and Prague. He was invited by J.E Gardiner to be soloist at the Opéra de Lyon and by Alain Lombard for the Orchestre de Bordeaux.
After having been soloist at the Orchestre des concerts Lamoureux and solo clarinet for the Orchestre Mondial des Jeunesse musicales, in 1984 he become principal soloist for the Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris.
He has also developped his career with major international orchestras, such as the Czech Philharmonic and the Munich Bavardan radio orchestra. He has played under prestigious conductors : L.MAAZEL, W.SAWALLISH, S.OZAWA, P.BOULEZ, D.BARENBOÏM, Z.MEHTA, G.PRETRE, J.CONLON... In chamber music he has partnered M.W CHUNG, P.BADURA-SKODA, M.DALBERTO, D.LIVELY, L.CABASSO, PH.CASSARD, F.CHAPLIN, C.HUGONNARD-ROCHE, O.CHARLIER, L.KORCIA, J.P WALLEZ, A.BRUSSILOWSKI, A.MOGLIA, G.CAUSSE, B.PASQUIER, N.SANTOS, A.MEUNIER, C.HENKEL... and he has played in numerous quartets (Rosamonde, Parisii, Arpeggione, Alcan (Canada), Talich, Kocian and Venus (Prague), Takacs (Budapest), Wilanow (Warsaw), Trio Wanderer, strings Trio (Czech), Trio Tchaikowsky (Moscow)..
Philippe Cuper has played at the Montreux Festival, the St Petersbourg Philharmonic, the Lincoln Center in New York, the Purcell Room in London, the Prague Rudolfinum, the Brisbane Philharmonic hall, the Tokyo Metropolitan hall and the Seoul Art Center.
He teaches at the Conservatoire National de Versailles but has also tought in the States (Texas, Virginia), in Japan (Tokyo : Kunitachi University and the Osaka conservatory) in Easten Europe, in Brazil, in Australia (Brisbane and Camberra University) in Canada (Domaine Forget in Quebec) and in Korea (Szoul University), Tel Aviv (Musical Center).
Philippe Cuper has played as a soloist in nearly 50 orchestras, interpreting both the classic repertoire and debut performances of contemporary works (A.Girard, N.Bacri, T.Escaich, G.Conesson, J.F Zygel, Ph.Dulat ..). He has alaso recorded over 50 works on 20 compact discs.
Since 1997, Philippe Cuper has represented France at the European Clarinet and Saxophone society : he appears in the list of top players in Palema Weston : "Clarinet Virtuosy of today" published by Egon, London.
He has edited two collections devoted to the clarinet with Edition Robert Martin (for clarinet ensembles) and Editions IMD Arpèges, Paris.
He has collaborated with the Lys-Dante record company to re-record on compact disc the great masters of the clarinet, Louis Cahuzac, Auguste Perier and René Verney.
Philippe Cuper writes articles for "The Clarinet" (USA), "Clarinet and Saxophone" (London), "Clarinet and Saxophone" (Australia), "La Lettre du Musicien" (France) and "Haroniques" (France).
John Harle is one of the world's leading Saxophonists in the Concert Hall today.
He has recorded more than 25 Concerto and Recital CDs, his solo recording of concerti by Debussy, Villa-Lobos and Glazunov having sold over 200,000copies to date, and he has performed in Concertos with many of the major Orchestras in the World.
He has had over twenty five concerti written for him, by composers such as John Tavener, Michael Nyman, Gavin Bryars, Mark Anthony Turnage, Michael Torke and Harrison Birtwistle. In 1995, his outrageous performance of Birtwistle's Saxophone Concerto Panic, premiered at the Last Night of the Proms, propelled him to a level of high international recognition. In 1996, John followed this performance with his own work, Terror and Magnificence, recorded by Decca, and performed by himself with Elvis Costello and soprano Sarah Leonard, which culminated in a sell-out concert at the Royal Festival Hall.
In the first half of 2000, Harle performed three world premieres: John Tavener's Total Eclipse at St. Paul's Cathedral with the Academy of Ancient Music, Dominic Muldowney's The Fall of Jerusalem and Joby Talbot's The Same Dog. His recent performances of Sally Beamish's Saxophone Concerto, The Imagined Sound of Sun on Stone, (written for him to premiere at the St. Magnus Festival in June 1999) were received with overwhelming critical acclaim. This work has been released on BIS, and filmed for BBCTV in 2003. He is also a conductor, musical director and producer in a variety of fields, covering artists as diverse as Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello, Moondog, Ute Lemper and Lesley Garrett.
He has worked prominently with the conductors Riccardo Chailly, Michael Tilson Thomas, Andrew Davis, Sir Neville Marriner and Franz Welser-Most. In recital, John Harle works regularly with Sir Richard Rodney Bennett and John Lenehan. He has also begun very exciting collaborations with Willard White, the Brodsky Quartet, Evelyn Glennie, and the Guildhall Strings. In 1989 John Harle was appointed Professor of Saxophone and Chamber Music at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
Harle recently guest-conducted and performed with the Winterthur Orchestra and has accepted an immediate re-invitation to play and conduct with the Orchestra as Artist in Residence. Recent concerts include performances with Herbie Hancock and the London Philharmonic, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, English Sinfonia, London Mozart Players and Lucerne Symphony.
In his remarkable career Harle has written 35 concert works and over 40 film and television scores. Harle has also been nominated for a variety of awards. He has won a Royal Television Society award for his theme to BBC 1's Silent Witness, and received nominations for Defence of the Realm and Summer in the Suburbs, as well as a Grammy nomination for Terror and Magnificence.
In 1998 he was a castaway on Sue Lawley's Desert Island Discs on Radio 4. Soon to follow was the performance at the Albert Hall in the Proms of 1998 of his opera, Angel Magick, (with a libretto by its director, David Pountney.) In May 2001 John Harle had a huge success at the Bath Festival conducting a newly commissioned score by Will Gregory, (-of Goldfrapp) for People on Sunday, a 67' silent film of 1929.
In 2000, at the BBC Proms again, he not only performed and conducted, but also presented the annual BBC Blue Peter Prom. In 2001, he performed at the Proms with the BBC Concert Orchestra and Elmer Bernstein. The Proms of 2002 saw John Harle perform the premiere of his own Saxophone Concerto, "The Little Death Machine", with John Lubbock and the Orchestra of St John's Smith Square, as well as a new composition for the Kings Singers with a new text by Iain Sinclair. Future Concerto commissions for John Harle include a Double Concerto with the Cellist Stephen Isserlis by John Tavener, Steve Mackey, and a second Concerto by Harrison Birtwistle.
Roger Heaton, clarinettist and conductor, studied at the Royal Academy of Music, King’s College London and Huddersfield University. He was Music Director and Conductor of Rambert Dance Company/Ballet Rambert during the 1990s and has conducted for the Royal Ballet as well as working with many new music ensembles. As a clarinettist he performs with such groups as the Arditti, Kreutzer and Smith and String Quartets, was a member of the London Sinfonietta (also playing concertos with them by Boulez and Takemitsu) and Ensemble Modern; he is a member of the Gavin Bryars Ensemble, Music Projects London and Uroboros. He plays at major festivals throughout Europe and records regularly for radio and CD - 18 chamber and solo CDs currently in the catalogue. He has played with leading orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, and worked with a wide range of artists and composers including Bill Frisell, Terry Riley, Henze, Feldman and Ferneyhough. He was Clarinet Professor at the Darmstadt Ferienkurse für Neue Musik (1982-94) working with some of the world’s leading composers, from Cage to Zimmermann, and is currently Professor of Music at Bath Spa University. His latest CD of clarinet quintets by Morton Feldman and Christopher Fox was released on Metier last December and a CD of Tom Johnson’s solo music will appear later this year on the Silenzio/Rome label. He is currently working on a book for Routledge entitled The Versatile Clarinet, and next year he will begin editing and compiling the Encyclopedia of the Clarinet also for Routledge.
Janet Hilton
“Rare lightness and grace, shaped with the quiet freedom of a great singer.” (Financial Times)
“A warm richness of tone, a felicity of phrasing, a rhythmic vivacity such as would not readily be surpassed by any other clarinettist.” (The Herald, Glasgow)
“What a marvellous player Janet Hilton is.” (Hi-Fi News and Record Review)
“It was the sort of playing that makes you want to get up and dance.” (The Guardian)
“So perfect a blend of emotion and experience that she inspired her colleagues to a performance of quite unusual intensity and pathos.” (The Sunday Telegraph)
Superlatives such as these have greeted the English clarinettist Janet Hilton’s playing ever since she first came to public notice in her student days in Manchester. She has gone on to build a career as a soloist, playing at most of Britain’s major festivals and with leading orchestras – the City of Birmingham Symphony, Scottish National Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony – conductors Paavo Berglund, Neeme Järvi and Mathias Bamert – and partnering artists such as the Lindsay String Quartet, Margaret Price, Nobuko Imai, Steven Isserlis and Peter Frankl in chamber music and recitals. Internationally she has played in most European countries, Canada and the United States, where for twenty years she was a member of the Michigan-based chamber group Fontana. Her recordings have been hailed in the New York Times, High Fidelity and Fanfare magazines.
As a recording artist, Janet has covered much of the clarinet repertoire in her series of discs for Chandos and other labels. Her recording of the Mozart Clarinet Quintet with the Lindsays, is released by ASV, and her most recent recording, for Clarinet Classics, is Dedications, including four concertos composed for her by Alun Hoddinott John McCabe, Edward Harper and Dame Elizabeth Maconchy. Janet’s recordings are regularly heard on radio stations worldwide and in 1998 ABC Classic FM in Australia devoted a programme in the Great Performers series to her playing.
As well as her solo career, Janet Hilton has always been an active orchestral player, as Principal Clarinet with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Welsh National Opera, Kent Opera and Manchester Camerata. When living in the United States, she played regularly with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.
A distinguished teacher, Janet Hilton is Head of Woodwind at the Royal College of Music, London, after holding the same position at the Birmingham Conservatoire. She has given masterclasses at several American universities and served on the juries of leading competitions in England, Ireland, Italy and Canada.
Born in 1964, Kyle Horch is one of Britain’s leading saxophonists. As a young musician, he was a prizewinner at several international solo and chamber music competitions, including the Jules de Vries International Alto Saxophone Competition (Sweden), the Park Lane Group Young Artists/2 0th Century Music Platform (London), and the Coleman Chamber Music Competition (Los Angeles). He has a wide-ranging recital repertoire and has given performances at the Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall, British and World Saxophone Congresses, and many other venues in Britain and abroad. The frequent expansion of his programmes to include chamber pieces led in 1999 to his first Clarinet Classics recording, ChamberSax, a programme of music for saxophone and combinations of other instruments – works by Villa-Lobos, Webern, Hindemith and others. In 2003 he released a second Clarinet Classics disc, AngloSax, which contains works by British and American composers connected by themes of folksong and pastoral imagery. In addition to solo playing, Kyle has worked with many well-known ensembles including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, London Musici, Carlos Bonell Ensemble, Mistral and Paragon Saxophone Quartets, Piccadilly Dance Orchestra, and many others. Apart from performing work, Kyle has written numerous articles on aspects of the saxophone and contributed chapters on saxophone technique and teaching to The Cambridge Companion to the Saxophone (Cambridge University Press, 1999). He is professor of saxophone at the Royal College of Music. His training was taken at Northwestern University in Chicago and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
“Highly accomplished… technical and interpretative talents alike.” The Times
About ChamberSax
"The programme's protagonists transmit a true feeling of exploration... the recording reveals versatile performers who can take on the lyrical heart of German Romanticism or an exotic Brazilian seductiveness with supreme conviction" ***** for both performance and sound, BBC Music Magazine
About AngloSax
“A carefully chosen programme with illuminating cross-references… highly accomplished playing from Horch, with strong support from pianist Pamela Lidiard.” London Evening Standard
“Simply stunning” Saxophone Symposium
Luigi Magistrelli
Luigi Magistrelli was born in S.Stefano Ticino,near Milan,Italy . He studied clarinet at the Conservatory of Milan with Prof. Primo Borali and attended some Masterclasses with D. Kloecker,K.Leister and Giuseppe Garbarino. He has performed as soloist with the Orchestras of”Pomeriggi musicali”,”Angelicum”, “Teatro Litta” and Radio of Milan. He has also performed with many chamber groups ( from duo with piano to large Ensemble also of contemporary music). He played for one year as principal clarinet with Sanremo Symphony Orchestra and as extra player (also as principal clarinet ) with the orchestras of Pomeriggi Musicali, Angelicum,”Milano Classica”, “Gaspare da Salò”, “Cantelli”, Radio Orchestras of Milan and Turin, “Orchester der Jahrhunderte” in Germany and Moldova Radio Sympohony .He has participated in some tournèes with the International Orchestra of Italy. He has won some prizes at the Competitions of Genoa and Stresa. He has performed in the principal cities of Italy and also in Austria,Belgium, ex Jugoslavia, France, Africa (National Theatre of Nairobi), India, Germany, Finland,Israel , Mexico, U.S.A and in duo with the pianist Sumiko Hojo in the Czech Republic, China and Japan. He has recorded 30 Cds of chamber music and as soloist for "Pongo classica" , "Bayer Records" , "Clarinet Classics" ,"Camerata Tokyo", Leonarda "Nuova Era", "Stradivarius", "Arta Records" (on early clarinets) , "ASV", "MDG gold" and "Orfeo" with the well known clarinetist Dieter Kloecker, and with the Orchestras "La Scala Philharmonic" conducted by R. Muti for "Sony Classical.He has recorded for the Italian Radio and BBC of London. He edited unknown clarinet works for "Eufonia", "Accolade","Trio Musik", "Poco Nota Verlag" and "Musica Rara". He is the chairman for Italy of the International Clarinet Society.He held Masterclasses in Italy, China, Israel and Mexico. He is Professor of Clarinet at the Conservatory of Milano.
Orchestral 1997- Principal Clarinet English Chamber Orchestra (E.C.O.)
Experience 1986- Guest Principal including with B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia, City of Birmingham, Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, London Mozart, Players, Northern Sinfonia, English National Opera, Bavarian State Opera, London Session Orchestra, London Metropolitan Orchestra. European Community Youth Orchestra, National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.
Solo and Chamber Recitals 1989 Wigmore Hall Recital Debut, 2001 Royal Festival Hall Concerto Debut, Many Concerto performances with E.C.O. worldwide, Festival invitations including Edinburgh, Hong Kong, South Africa, Nordland and Fishguard.
RecordingsMozart Concerto for Basset Clarinet K.622 and Sinfonia Concertante (E,C,O,), Max Reger Complete Works for Clarinet and Piano (Martin Jones), Entire Associated Board Clarinet Syllabus sanctioned by them.
Professors Julian Farrell, Dame Thea King, Robert Marcellus (Chicago)
Education and Qualifications1985-1986 Royal College of Music (Postgraduate), 1982-1985 Magdalen College, Oxford (Instrumental Scholar, 1972-1981 Bedales School (Academic and Music Scholar), 1985 M.A. Oxon (Politics, Philosophy and Economics), 1979 A.R.C.M.
Teaching 1996-2004 Professor Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Posts 1986-1996 St Paul's Girls School, London
Chamber Music CollaboratorsThese include Christian Zacharias, Ralph Gothoni, Medici Quartet, Joachim Trio, Bekova Sisters and E.C.O. Ensemble
Victoria Soames Samek is one of the most exciting and versatile clarinettists playing in the UK today.Born of Czech and Hungarian parents, she studied at the Royal College of Music in London where she won the coveted Frederick Thurston Memorial Prize. Her teachers were Roger Fallows, Colin Bradbury, Antony Pay and for bass clarinet Stephen Trier. She performs internationally as a soloist, duos with piano and in numerous chamber ensembles, notably the Mühlfeld Trio, English Romantics Trio and the East Winds. Most recently she has formed a new and exciting group, FourSight with Percussion player Chris Brannick which is devoted to the main stream 20^th century master works, cutting edge repertoire, and world music.
Her long standing commitment to contemporary music has resulted in many commissionsfrom notable composers includingElizabeth Lutyens, Roger Marsh and Nicola LeFanu. Her close collaboration with the Scottish composer Thea Musgrave resulted in two commissions; Threnody for clarinet and piano and ‘Autumn Sonata’ a bass clarinet concerto which Victoria premièred with the City of London Sinfonia and made the Première Recording with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under the direction of the composer together with her Clarinet Concerto for Cala Records. It has since been re-released on Clarinet Classics.
As well as her BBC recital broadcasts, she has also made recordings for Hyperion, IMP Classics and Meridion.
With her great enthusiasm for the clarinet, in 1992 she launched the celebrated CD label Clarinet Classics which has established itself as a unique show case for the clarinet in all its richness and diversity. ’Victoria Soames Samek’s energy as curator of Clarinet Classics continues to impress’ (International Record Review) Her own recordings for Clarinet Classics include the world première recording of Copland’s Clarinet Sonata, voted "Most sheerly seductive record of the year" by the Sunday Times and more recently Solos de Concours II
In addition to her playing commitments Victoria is professor of clarinet at Trinity College of Music and The Guildhall School of Music & DramaJunior School and GoldsmithsCollege.
Victoria Soames Samek is an official endorsee for Selmer (Paris) clarinets. Victoria Soames Samek is represented by Sirius Artists: mail[at]siriusartists.co.uk.
as a performer and a teacher. Since 1981 he is Professor of Bass Clarinet at the Rotterdam (Superior) Conservatoire, where the unique bass clarinet program attracts students from all over the world. 
ly and toured world-wide. Described recently as 'a brilliant, absolutely world-class player' (Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung) and ‘the doyen of period clarinettists’ (BBC Music Magazine), he has appeared as soloist in many international venues, including London's major concert halls and New York's Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. His discography comprises concertos by Fasch, Hook, Mahon, Mozart, Spohr, Telemann, Vivaldi and Weber, as well as a considerable variety of chamber music. Among his most recent recording is a highly-acclaimed disc of basset horn trios by Mozart and Stadler and a recital disc entitled ‘100 Years of the Simple-System Clarinet’.
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0th Century Music Platform (London), and the Coleman Chamber Music Competition (Los Angeles). He has a wide-ranging recital repertoire and has given performances at the Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall, British and World Saxophone Congresses, and many other venues in Britain and abroad. The frequent expansion of his programmes to include chamber pieces led in 1999 to his first Clarinet Classics recording, ChamberSax, a programme of music for saxophone and combinations of other instruments – works by Villa-Lobos, Webern, Hindemith and others. In 2003 he released a second Clarinet Classics disc, AngloSax, which contains works by British and American composers connected by themes of folksong and pastoral imagery. In addition to solo playing, Kyle has worked with many well-known ensembles including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, London Musici, Carlos Bonell Ensemble, Mistral and Paragon Saxophone Quartets, Piccadilly Dance Orchestra, and many others. Apart from performing work, Kyle has written numerous articles on aspects of the saxophone and contributed chapters on saxophone technique and teaching to The Cambridge Companion to the Saxophone (Cambridge University Press, 1999). He is professor of saxophone at the Royal College of Music. His training was taken at Northwestern University in Chicago and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.