Amy Roberts
Oboe
Amy Roberts is a young oboist with a rich and varied career. She freelances all over the UK and recently played with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Last academic year saw her join the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Foyles Future Firsts and she performed with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra on their 2016 Summer Tour including a BBC Prom. Future highlights include recitals in the Three Choirs Festival, Malcolm Arnold’s Concertino with the Janus Ensemble in the autumn and a tour of George Benjamin’s opera Written on Skin to Russia with Melos Sinfonia.
Currently, she is working towards an MA at The Royal Academy of Music in London with Chris Cowie, Melanie Ragge and Ian Hardwick, having recently graduated from the Joint Course between the Royal Northern College of Music and the University of Manchester studying oboe with Jonathan Small and baroque oboe with Tony Robson. She received a 1st from both institutions and won the 2015 RNCM Concerto Competition resulting in a performance of Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Four Winds with the RNCM Chamber Orchestra last year. Whilst at the Academy she has won the Evelyn Rothwell Oboe Prize and the Janet Craxton Memorial Prize, and is was a finalist for the prestigious Academy Patron's Award in a duo with Abigail Sin resulting in a recital at the Wigmore Hall.
She is in demand as a soloist, chamber musician and baroque oboist having recently recorded the solo oboe part in Villa Lobos Concerto Grosso with RNCM Wind Orchestra (Chandos Records) and performing as a resident ensemble in the Wigmore Hall 'Chamber Tots' series with her quintet ‘Moriarty Winds’. They have performed across the UK in a variety of concert and educational contexts and will be collaborating with New London Chamber Ensemble this summer.
Her studies are supported by the Drapers’ Company, the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, the Philharmonia MMSF Award, the Dorothy Grinstead Memorial Fund and the Charlotte Fraser Award.
Oboe
Amy Roberts is a young oboist with a rich and varied career. She freelances all over the UK and recently played with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Last academic year saw her join the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Foyles Future Firsts and she performed with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra on their 2016 Summer Tour including a BBC Prom. Future highlights include recitals in the Three Choirs Festival, Malcolm Arnold’s Concertino with the Janus Ensemble in the autumn and a tour of George Benjamin’s opera Written on Skin to Russia with Melos Sinfonia.
Currently, she is working towards an MA at The Royal Academy of Music in London with Chris Cowie, Melanie Ragge and Ian Hardwick, having recently graduated from the Joint Course between the Royal Northern College of Music and the University of Manchester studying oboe with Jonathan Small and baroque oboe with Tony Robson. She received a 1st from both institutions and won the 2015 RNCM Concerto Competition resulting in a performance of Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Four Winds with the RNCM Chamber Orchestra last year. Whilst at the Academy she has won the Evelyn Rothwell Oboe Prize and the Janet Craxton Memorial Prize, and is was a finalist for the prestigious Academy Patron's Award in a duo with Abigail Sin resulting in a recital at the Wigmore Hall.
She is in demand as a soloist, chamber musician and baroque oboist having recently recorded the solo oboe part in Villa Lobos Concerto Grosso with RNCM Wind Orchestra (Chandos Records) and performing as a resident ensemble in the Wigmore Hall 'Chamber Tots' series with her quintet ‘Moriarty Winds’. They have performed across the UK in a variety of concert and educational contexts and will be collaborating with New London Chamber Ensemble this summer.
Her studies are supported by the Drapers’ Company, the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, the Philharmonia MMSF Award, the Dorothy Grinstead Memorial Fund and the Charlotte Fraser Award.