Biographies
Gawain Glenton || Sam Goble || Emily White || Tom Lees
Andrew Harwood-White|| Adrian France|| Robert Howarth
Adrian France
Adrian joined ECSE in 1993 and is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music. Since then, his career has become one of great diversity encompassing most genres of Trombone playing from the Renaissance period through to contemporary music.
He has made numerous recordings to date and has performed extensively with many period orchestras and ensembles from the UK and abroad including The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The Academy of Ancient Music, The English Baroque Soloists, The Gabrieli Consort, The New London Consort, Europa Galante Orchestra (Fabio Biondi), The Sixteen, The Musicians of the Globe, The Orchestra of the Renaissance and Ensemble La Fenice (Jean Tubery). Adrian is also Principal Bass Trombone and Bass Sackbut of The King's Consort.
On the modern Bass Trombone, he also enjoys a varied career working with The Ulster Orchestra, The BBC Symphony Orchestra, The Southern Sinfonia, The Britten Sinfonia, Westminster Brass, The Wallace Collection, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, The London Jazz Orchestra, Orquesta Symphonica de Gran Canaria, English Touring Opera and The Mahler Chamber Orchestra (Abbado, Harding) and has also performed as part of the on screen Orchestra for the 2008 movie “The Oxford Murders” starring Elijah Wood and John Hurt.
In 2009, Adrian was elected an Associate member of the Royal Academy of Music and awarded an ARAM for a “distinguished and significant contribution to the music profession” Adrian is also general manager of ECSE.
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Tom Lees
Tom studied the trombone at the Royal Northern College of Music, before becoming the first full-time student of the sackbut at the RCM, winning a Countess of Munster musical scholarship to continue his early music studies there. Since then, he has joined with London Brass on a record of Venetian brass music, and has performed and recorded with many of the specialist period instrument ensembles, including The Gabrieli Consort and Players, The English Baroque Soloists, The King's Consort, The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Tafelmusik, with whom he recorded the Mozart Requiem trombone solo. Tom is also a regular performer with The Musicians of the Globe, a group specially assembled to provide music at the reconstructed Shakespeare's Globe on London's Bankside.
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Emily White
Emily studied sackbut with Sue Addison at the Royal Academy of Music and has gone on to freelance with various ensembles such as His Majestie's Sackbutts and Cornettes, The King's Consort,The Gabrielli Consort and The Sixteen. Emily has played sackbuts in productions at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre since its opening season in 1997 up to 2005, and worked as an orchestral player with The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the german orchestra Balthazar-Neumann Ensemble and The Academy of Ancient Music. Emily also plays modern trombone, and freelances with orchestras such as the BBC National Orchetsra of Wales, The Flemish Radio Orchestra and The Welsh National Opera. Last year she launched a duo with contemporary trombonist John Kenny. Emily has coached sackbuts at both Trinity College of Music, and Royal Scottish Academy of Music, and was the tutor on this years 'Bonelab' trombone course at Dartington International Summer School.
Gawain Glenton
Gawain Glenton is a specialist cornetto player whose work as a soloist and an ensemble musician takes him all over the world. He performs regularly with many leading international groups, such as The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Les Talens Lyriques, Capriccio Stravagante, The Taverner Consort, The Academy of Ancient Music and the Nederlandse Bachvereniging.
Although now returned to the UK, Gawain spent several years living in Basel where he studied with Bruce Dickey at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. As a result of these years abroad, Gawain is closely involved with many 'next generation' ensembles, such as Ensemble Leones, whose debut CD is due for release this year, and also the Basel-based I Fedeli, with whom he claimed first prize at the IYAP competition in Antwerp in 2009. In the UK, Gawain works with ensembles such as The Gonzaga Band, La Nuova Musica, The City Musick, The Gabrieli Consort and Players and His Majestys Sackbuts and Cornetts.
Gawain is a member of The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble and, in collaboration with baroque harpist Kirsty Whatley, has recently formed the instrumental ensemble In Echo, specialising in music from the 16th and 17th centuries.
Robert Howarth
Robert studied music at the University of York. Upon graduating he won the Music Department Prize for his outstanding musical contribution.
Whilst in York he established himself as the regular continuo player for the Yorkshire Baroque Soloists, under the direction of Peter Seymour. As a continuo specialist he has played with many of the world's prime early Music Ensembles such as the New London Consort, Musician's of the Globe, His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts and Concordia. With these groups Robert has worked under the direction of Philip Pickett, Paul McCreesh and Jaap Ter Linden.
He has appeared as a finalist twice in the Early Music Network International Young Artists Competition, first with Wood, Wind and Wire and subsequently with the ensemble Ogni Sorte d'Istromenti. Robert is now Artistic Director of the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, for whom he edits many as yet unpublished works for that combination of instruments.
Possibly Robert's most spectacular appearance was during a four-hour extravaganza of seven harpsichordists in the Purcell Room in June 1998, to celebrate three generations of continuo players from The New London Consort.
Sam Goble
Sam is quickly establishing himself as one of the UK’s most prominent cornetto players. Born in Portsmouth, he discovered the cornetto whilst studying for his A-levels; going on to study for his undergraduate degree on the cornetto in London under Richard Thomas and Jeremy West. Sam is interested in exploring the repertoire and usage of the mute cornett, tenor cornett (or Lizard) and the cornettino. Sam is also a teacher of the cornetto and is a visiting professor at the University of East Anglia.
As well as being a member of both QuintEssential and the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, Sam regularly performs and records with some of the most influential groups in Europe such as His Majestys Sagbuts and Cornetts, Academy of Ancient Music, I Fagiolini, Ex Cathedra, Gabrieli Consort and Players and the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra.
In addition to performing, Sam is also passionate about making cornetti and researching the techniques of making them. He makes cornetto mouthpieces played by both professional and amateurs around the globe.
Andrew Harwood-White