One of Britain’s leading clarinettists, Matthew Hunt is a distinctive musician, renowned for the vocal quality of his playing and his ability to communicate with audiences. He holds the position of solo clarinettist with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, and is a member of the Sheffield based chamber group Ensemble 360. A very keen chamber musician, he appears regularly with Meta4, the Chiurascuro and Elias quartets, Thomas Adès, Pekka Kuusisto, Emily Beynon, Nicholas Altstaedt, Alina Ibragimova, and La Bande de La Loingtaine. He has also appeared as a guest of the Berlin Philharmonic as a soloist in their series at the Berlin Philharmonie Kammermusik Saal.
As an orchestral musician, Matt is a regular guest principal with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and has appeared as a guest principal with the Concertgebouw and BBC Symphony Orchestras and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
Matthew’s recording for ASV of Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet with the Elias quartet was met with critical acclaim, with the BBC Music Magazine hailing it with five stars as “the Benchmark recording of this much recorded work”.
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Alec Frank-Gemmill was a member of the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist scheme from 2014–16, often appearing as a soloist with the BBC orchestras. He was Principal horn of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra for ten years and took up the same position with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in October 2019.
His recording of Strauss’s First Concerto was named Disc of the Week on the BBC's Record Review programme. He has also recorded three albums for the BIS label, thanks to the support of the Borletti–Buitoni Trust. He is very active in the early music scene. Whether on modern, classical or baroque horn, he is highly in demand as a chamber music partner.
For the last few years Alec has been shifting focus to conducting. He has conducted concerts with orchestras throughout the UK, often appearing as both soloist and director.
Alec is Professor of Horn at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
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Juliane Bruckmann first studied with Gottfried Engels at the Cologne University of Music and Dance. After graduating from high school, she moved to the Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg and continued her studies with Bozo Paradzik.
She received further inspiration by participating in master classes from Dorin Marc, Janne Saksala, Esko Laine and Christine Hoock, among others.
Juliane Bruckmann is a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes and the association Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Freiburg.
Her great love was and is playing in an orchestra. She was a long-standing member of the German String Philharmonic and the Young German Philharmonic and regularly performed in the SWR Symphony Orchestra in Baden-Baden and Freiburg. She has been playing in the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen since 2016.
Chris Rawley is a London based bassoonist who has performed as a guest principal with many of the UK's finest ensembles including the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, BBC Symphony Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, English National Ballet Philharmonic, London Concert Orchestra, Orchestra of English National Opera and the Philharmonia. In the world of early music he has performed with the English Baroque Soloists, the Mozartists and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. In the popular music world he has performed with many well known artists such as Paul McCartney, Elton John, Gareth Malone and the all round family entertainer, Barney the Dinosaur!
He is a committed educator and is currently the Head of Instrumental Studies at St Dunstan's College and a regular tutor for the National Children’s Orchestra of Great Britain.
