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Paul Archibald
Principal Trumpet
Paul
is Principal Trumpet with Britten Sinfonia, a post he has held since the
orchestra’s foundation. In addition to his work with the orchestra Paul
regularly performs as soloist with many of the UK ’s orchestras and is
a professor at the Royal College and the Royal Academy of Music.
Paul
has been Co-principal Trumpet at the Royal Opera House and Principal of
the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. In 1984 he was a prize winner of
the Toulon Prix de Concours, a major international trumpet competition,
and has since performed as a soloist with the London Philharmonic, the
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Brandenburg Sinfonia, the London Concert
Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
In
2005 Paul, in collaboration with Juliet Edwards, launched a new recording
label, Brass Classics, that focuses on the exciting world of the brass
repertoire and its performers. Paul has made two CD of trumpet and piano
repertoire in addition to ensemble recordings with his own group, the
English Brass Ensemble , and musicians from the Vienna, Berlin and Munich
Philharmonics.
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