On Thursday 22 January 2026, I played the trumpet and took part in an on-location recording for BBC Radio 3’s The Early Music Show at St Paul’s Cathedral. The programme, presented by Dr Hannah French and produced by Ben Collingwood, will be broadcast in March.This episode of The Early Music Show explored music by John Blow, William Croft, and Jeremiah Clarke, and was framed around the rebuilding

I met the organist, harpsichordist, and director of Il Gusto Barocco, Jörg Halubek when I recorded Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, as a last-minute stand-in, in 2019.  View this post on Instagram A post shared by Il Gusto Barocco (@ilgustobarocco) Fast forward to 2025, and I was delighted to be invited to perform a trumpet and organ recital with him at the Hospitalkirche

Exactly one week after performing Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4 (from memory) with the Aurora Orchestra at Snape Maltings, I returned to this magnificent venue to perform Handel’s Messiah (HWV 56) with the Aldeburgh Music Club and Suffolk Baroque Players, under the direction of Tom Appleton. Aldeburgh Music Club, founded by Benjamin Britten in 1952, brought this festive work back to Snape Saturday

I played first trumpet with the period instrument orchestra Spiritato; we performed Handel’s Jubilate (HWV 279), as well as Bach’s Orchestral Suite No 3 in D major (BWV 1068) and Bach’s Magnificat in D (BWV 243) with Hertford Choral Society on Saturday 25 October 2025. The performance was directed by Manvinder Rattan and the orchestra was led by violinist George Clifford. For me (and Sam

Dartington Hall is a very special place to me; it is where I attended summer school (2007–12), met Jo (2012), proposed (2017), and got married (2018)! So, it was a pleasure to return to Dartington to play in Devon Baroque’s 25th anniversary concert, which took place in the Great Hall on Sunday 28 September 2025.I was one of the soloists in the concert and I performed ‘Mr Handel’s Water

On Wednesday 16 July 2025, I played first trumpet in a recording of Handel’s Zadok the Priest (HWV 258) at St Columba’s Church on Pont Street in Knightsbridge, London. The session, conducted by Ben Lewis-Smith, featured a twelve-piece professional choir, three trumpets, and organ.The recording took place in the organ gallery at the back of the church, with both audio and video captured for use

Following two enjoyable performances of Handel’s La Resurrezione (HWV 47) with Le Banquet Céleste in Rennes in March this year, it was great to rejoin this ensemble to reprise this work at the Beaune International Baroque Opera Festival (Festival international d'opéra baroque de Beaune) on Friday 11 July 2025. I have performed in this festival twice before: my first appearance was Handel’s L’Allegro,

Handel’s Solomon (HWV 67) was the chosen oratorio at this year’s Göttingen International Handel Festival, which centred around the theme of laurels (Lorbeeren). George Petrou directed the Festspiel Orchester Göttingen (FOG) for two performances of this oratorio; the first took place at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie on 15 May 2025 and the second at Göttingen’s recently refurbished Stadthalle,

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Croatian Baroque Ensemble (Hrvatski Barokni Ansambl), as well as the 50th birthday of the trumpeter Krešimir Fabijanić, the Croatian Baroque Ensemble performed an instrumental programme entitled ‘Tromba Gloriosa’, featuring music by Biber, Purcell, Telemann, Bach and Handel. The programme began with Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber’s Sonata Sancti Polycarpi

I played first trumpet in Handel’s Saul with the Monteverdi String Band (led by Oliver Webber) and the Romsey Choral Society, conducted by Richard Pearce on Saturday 29 March 2025. The performance featured soloists Simon Thorpe (Saul), Maryam Wocial (Merab, Witch of Endor), Beatriz Volante (Michal), Christopher Bowen (Jonathan, Samuel, High Priest, Amalekite, Messenger) and

After an amazing fortnight of performances with the Aurora Orchestra (and a couple of days to rest at home), I travelled to Brittany to perform with Le Banquet Céleste: a French period-instrument orchestra based in Rennes. Before leaving home, I had a brief look at the list of musicians in the schedule and I did not see any names that I recognised. However, when I arrived (via Eurostar,

I went to Gatwick Airport on 17 December 2024, straight after performing at St. Martin-in-the-Fields with the English Baroque Soloists, in preparation to travel to Gran Canaria early the following morning. Once I arrived in Gran Canaria on Wednesday 18 December 2024 (and following a quick dip in the hotel’s rooftop swimming pool, where the water temperature was a bracing 13°C and the weather

Following my return flight to the UK from Frankfurt (having performed at the Alte Oper yesterday), I travelled directly to Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford to play first trumpet in Handel’s Messiah. This performance, on Monday 9 December 2024, was directed by Peter Holder and featured Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Frideswide Voices, The Wolsey Ensemble, and the soloists Harriet Burns (soprano),

I performed Handel’s Messiah at Temple Church in London on Thursday 5 December 2024. The performance was led by Dominika Fehér (violin) and directed by Thomas Allery, Director of Music (and formerly my direct contemporary at the Royal College of Music).I performed The Trumpet Shall Sound with the bass soloist Ashley Riches. The other vocal soloists, equally excellent, were Jessica Cale (soprano),

I played first trumpet in Handel’s Messiah (HWV 56) in the candlelit quire of Canterbury Cathedral on Saturday 23 November 2024. The performance featured the soloists Alexandra Kidgell (soprano), James Hall (alto), Nicholas Todd (tenor), and Robert Rice (bass), as well as an excellent choir comprising the lay clerks and female choristers of Canterbury Cathedral. The ensemble was conducted by Dr David

I was delighted to rejoin the Brandenburg Baroque Soloists with the Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea and the Old Royal Naval College Trinity Laban Chapel Choir for a reprise of a programme from a concert given in April 2024 at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich. This concert, on Thursday 26 September 2024 was part of the Chelsea History Festival and took place at the Royal Hospital

I played as one of three first trumpeters with the Berlin Baroque Trumpet Ensemble (Barocktrompeten Ensemble Berlin), under the direction of Johann Plietzsch, in the Halle Handel Festival. We performed in the Marktkirche Unser Lieben Frauen, the church in which Handel was baptised and was first taught to play the organ, on Sunday 2 June 2024.The programme entitled 'The Mirrors of Versailles'

Only 24 hours after arriving home from our performance of 'Mozart and Friends' at the Mozartfest in Würzburg, I travelled, once again by Eurostar, to Brussels to join Les Talens Lyriques for their next project.I have visited Namur in Belgium on numerous occasions to rehearse (often with Vox Luminis), but I had never before performed in Namur: it was great to rectify that situation, on Tuesday 28th

I played first trumpet with the Istante Collective at St Thomas the Apostle church in Finsbury Park, London, on 18 May 2024. The performance featured the three trumpets and timpani in Handel’s coronation anthem, ‘The King Shall Rejoice’ and in Bach’s cantata, O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe [BWV 34]. I played first trumpet with Will Russell on second, Rebecca Toal on third and Ben Fullbrook

I played two of Handel’s Coronation Anthems with St. Martin’s Voices (directed by Andrew Earis) at St. Martin-in-the-Fields on Monday 6th May 2024. I played first trumpet with Rebecca Toal on second. I came directly from an Aurora Orchestra rehearsal at Henry Wood Hall, where I had been playing Beethoven’s 'Eroica' symphony (from memory), ahead of performances at the Apex in Bury St Edmunds,