Musical Director:  John Hutchins
 

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JOHN HUTCHINS has enjoyed connections with the band for some time and was appointed conductor in 2003.

 

Having graduated from the Royal Academy of Music with a first class honours degree, John is enjoying a career as a freelance trumpeter. He has performed with orchestras such as the Royal Opera House Orchestra, the Ulster Orchestra and the English National Opera orchestra, and can currently be found performing in Phantom of the Opera in London’s West End.  John is also a keen exponent of Baroque music specialising on the natural trumpet (without valves).

 

John performs and records with some of the world’s finest Baroque ensembles including The Kings Consort, The Sixteen, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Hanover Band, the New York Collegium and the Stuttgart Baroque Orchestra.
Brass coaching features highly in John’s career, encompassing work as far afield as the Vietnamese Symphony Orchestra and Wells International School of Music and Trinity College of Music. He has also contributed to various brass publications and co-written a study book for trumpet. He is Professor of Baroque Trumpet at the Royal Academy of Music.