I played first trumpet in Handel’s Messiah with the Brandenburg Baroque Soloists on Tuesday 22nd March 2022 at Eton College Chapel. The performance was conducted by Matthew O’Donovan and presented by the Eton College Musical Society. It featured a 200-strong chorus, with members of the ECMS Chorus, the Taplow Youth Choir and Wycombe Abbey School, and soloists: Miriam Allan (soprano), Tim Travers-Brown (alto), Benjamin Durrant (tenor) and Edmund Saddington (bass). Incidentally, the soprano soloist had performed at HRH Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral at Windsor Castle, last year.

I managed to fit in a walk around Windsor and Eton. It was the first warm day this year and it was such a boost to feel the warmth of the sun in such historic surroundings.