I have worked with lots of different groups and ensembles as a trumpet player. Please see below a selection of some of my favourite projects that I have supported.
If you are interested in having a trumpet player as part of your project, please contact me!
Session Work
Goblin Band
In December 2025, I was invited to perform with Goblin Band and the inaugural Goblin Brass Band as their principal trumpet. Managed by Broadside Hacks, Goblin Band is backed by Paul McCartney and they have taken the folk world by storm, performing with Martin Carthy and Billy Bragg in 2025 alone. Their music intends to reimagine a more inclusive and diverse folk world and setting that embraces change amid the traditional musical contexts.
I performed with the band in their sold-out Christmas concert at Grand Junction, London. We performed a range of works including the final number, Shepherd’s Arise, with Goblin band, their support act, Sophie and Seb, and the audience.
Fraka
I have regularly supported the Afro-beat band, Fraka, led by saxophonist Luke Martin. Highlights including a headline gig at Grow Hackney and the Lock Tavern in Camden. The group is inspired by ensembles including Ezra Collective, Nubiyan Twist, and describes itself as ‘bold horns, psychedelic textures, and rhythms that don’t quit’. It’s a fun atmosphere that makes each gig unique, bridging hip hop, funk, afrobeat and dub as their starting point and seeing where the gig takes them.
The Knots
The Knots are a song-writing duo from London, Dylan Evan-Hutchinson and Fred Spence. Described as ‘loud, fast, and mostly under control’, they’ve been recording their first studio album in summer 2025 for release in early 2026. I have been performing trumpet on the album on a number of songs since first performing with the group at their sell-out MAP Christmas show in December 2024. Their music can be described as a mix between the Beatles, Bob Dylan and the cool jazz era.
More information to be announced upon the album’s release. Watch this space.
Basement Orchestra
Basement Orchestra is a 50-piece orchestra that ‘makes beautiful music in unexpected places’, that breaks free beyond the confines of the concert hall and the social rules prescribed by classical musicians.
I have recently depped with the orchestra for big concerts at Big Penny Social in Walthamstow. We performed two-sell out concerts in December 2025 with each concert having over five-hundred people in attendance. Another noticeable highlight was performing at Big Penny Social’s birthday in September 2025. We performed to accompany singers, rappers and even an acrobat!
The Basement Orchestra do an incredible job at making classical music accessible to a wide range of audiences. Please do support them if you can.
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra
For several concerts between 2023 and 2025, I performed with Welwyn Garden City, conducted by Dr James Ross. We performed a range of repertoire often not performed, including Vaughan Williams’ Richard III: My Kingdom For a Horse, music from a project led by Kent sinfonia in which the orchestral parts for this music had assumed to be lost. Vaughan Williams’ love of Shakespeare led to a series of works composed inspired by Shakespeare’s plays. This music has rarely – if ever – been performed until David Norris and Malcolm Riley reconstructed the parts based on the composers’ handwritten scores. Dr James Ross conducted the original recordings released by Kent Sinfonia and brought some of this music to be performed by Welwyn Garden City.
The orchestra also engages with newly emerging soloists from the London conservatoires. It is a good orchestra that embraces both the local community and the possibilities presented by classical music.
