Commissions and First Performances

  • Simon Bainbridge (comm.) Music for Mel and Nora Purcell Room PLG Recital 1980

  • Sir Harrison Birtwistle (comm.) Pulse Sampler Huddersfield Festival 1981 and QEH 1983 

  • John Casken Oboe Concerto Masques for oboe and ensemble Polish Institute London 1983

  • Nicholas Maw Little Concert composed “as a tribute to the playing of Melinda Maxwell” 1987 St John’s Smith Square, linked to European tour with OSJ & BBC Radio 3 recording.

  • Howard Skempton (comm.) Three Pieces for Solo Oboe Warwick Festival 1993

  • Simon Holt (comm.) Banshee (1994) for oboe and percussion BBC Radio 3 Live Lunchtime Concert 1994. 

  • Julian Butcher Oboe Concerto BBC Radio 3 studio recording 1996

  • David Knotts Where the Sun is Silent for oboe and wind ensemble live BBC Radio 3 1997

  • Philip Cashian Tales from the Sea for oboe and ensemble Cheltenham Festival 1998

  • Anthony Gilbert (comm.) Os for oboe and vibraphone, RNCM 2000

  • Jo Kondo (comm.) Dartington Airs Dartington 2000 

  • Jonathan Cole (comm.) Totem for solo oboe, RNCM 2000

  • Simon Holt Sphinx (2004) for cor anglais and tuned gongs Cheltenham Festival 2004

  • Sir Harrison Birtwistle 26 Orpheus Elegies Cheltenham Festival 2003 and South Bank, Purcell Room 2004

  • Edwin Roxburgh An Elegy for Ur Oboe Concerto with RNCM Wind Orchestra 2006 and Cincinnati USA 2009

  • Larry Goves (comm.)The Tentacles of Memory recorded 2007

  • Edward Gregson (comm.) Shadow of Paradise for oboe and percussion RNCM 2008

  • Simon Holt Disparate for solo oboe opening of Kings Place London 2008

  • Simon Holt Disparate for solo oboe (second performance) and Disparate Dos for oboe and ensemble Kings Place London 2009

  • Adam Gorb (comm.) Freedom for oboe and harp RNCM 2009

  • Matthew Sergeant the temples at Ogden and Provo for oboe and ensemble and listening to a small voice for improvising oboe and small ensemble BCMG 2009

  • Howard Skempton Field Notes (2014) for oboe and string trio BCMG Field Notes Tour and CBSO Centre March 2014

  • Olivier Messiaen L’Amour de Piroutcha (1945) for oboe and piano with Mark Pringle, piano world première Oboeclassics CC2033 2016

  • Simon Holt (comm.) Llanto (2017) for Oboe d’Amore and string trio Clio Gould, violin Jane Atkins, viola Kate Gould, cello Aldeburgh Festival 2018

  • Simon Holt Raw Air (2019) for solo oboe and ad lib piano

  • London Sinfonietta Live Introduction to Contemporary Instruments YouTube May 2020

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