Anthony Robb studied flute at the Guildhall School of Music with Peter Lloyd and Edward Beckett, and on leaving was appointed principal flute with the BBC Radio Orchestra at the age of 23.
Described by the Times as "a glorious individual player", his career has ranged from playing principal flute in all of London's Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, to solo performances with the Hall&ecute;, BBC Concert Orchestra, Sinfonia 21 and the Academy of St Martins in the Fields among others. He has performed concertos by Mozart, Bach, Telemann, Malcolm Arnold, Howard Blake, John Rutter and Vivaldi.
In the commercial world Anthony has been involved in recording soundtracks for many films and television programmes, as well as playing for West End shows.
As a chamber musician Anthony has worked with groups such as London Winds, The St Magnus Trio and the London Symphony Chamber Ensemble. With Jeremy Polmear he has recorded four CDs of chamber music on the Oboe Classics and Ambache labels, including 'Liberté, Egalit&eacte;, Sororité' (AMB2606), of which the Gramophone commented "Scènes de la forêt [by Mel Bonis] is really a work for flute and two accompanists rather than a unified trio, and Anthony Robb shines in it, as indeed he also does in Tailleferre's Concertino."
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Jeremy Polmear, described by the Gramophone as "a sympathetic, musicianly artist" is the founder of Oboe Classics, and has played on six of its 35 main titles. With the pianist Diana Ambache he has given recitals at the Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room in London; and in 33 countries on five continents, including programmes of Words and Music in the Gulf with Billie Whitelaw, in Australia with Susannah York and around the UK with Jenny Agutter. They have also given courses for Business Schools, using the Arts as a management training tool.
Jeremy has played with a number of London's chamber and ballet orchestras, including the London Mozart Players and the City of London Sinfonia.
His interest in English and French music is long-standing: he has recorded a CD of Vaughan Williams, Rubbra, Britten, Arnold, Bowen and Dring on the Unicorn-Kanchana label ('Sweet Melancholy', DKPC9121) and Jean Françaix on his own label ('Très Françaix', Oboe Classics CC2020). He has also made the première recording of Jean-Michel Damase's Trio with horn ('Music for oboe, horn and piano', Oboe Classics CC2022). Of his recording of Claude Arrieu's Trio d'anches ('Liberté, Egalité, Sororité', AMB2606), the Guardian commented that it "could not be any more French if it were shrugging at you over a pastis."
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Michael Bell is described by the Gramophone as having a "thoughtful brand of virtuosity". He studied at the Royal Northern College of Music with Derryck Wyndham and Sulamita Aronovsky, and received the Chopin Fellowship award from the Polish Government, enabling further study at the State Academy of Music in Warsaw. Subsequent prizes in national and international competitions led to numerous live concert performances and broadcasts on radio and TV throughout Europe, Australia and Africa.
Michael has recorded solo works by Haydn, Grieg, Janacek and Tchaikovsky, and four CDs of British music with clarinettist Victoria Samek including Joseph Horovitz and the complete duo works for clarinet and piano by Richard Rodney Bennett on the Clarinet Classics label. The Italian label Sheva has issued a recording of Granados and de Falla alongside a new cycle of Alhambra-influenced piano pieces by Peter Seabourne; he is also in demand as a Lieder recitalist.
Michael Bell has over 30 Concertos in his repertoire, including performances of the complete cycle of Beethoven Concertos. Of a performance of Maurice Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand, The Guardian commented "...his performance was a brilliant technical achievement - but more than that a convincing characterisation."
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