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, folk vocalist Seb Stone, and the audience.
London Video Game Orchestra
In March 2026, I was invited to work with the London Video Game Orchestra for an engagement at the British Museum, conducted by Joe Davis. The British Museum was collaborating with PlayStation, to coincide with the launch of the new British Museum exhibition, Samurai, and the launch of PlayStation’s video game, NIOH 3.
We performed in the reading room at the heart of the British Museum with a sixty-piece orchestra performing a range of video game music. It was a pleasure to play a range of charts that blurred the lines between big band jazz and orchestral playing – with hints of James Bond style melodies.
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.
Knots, Knots, 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.
Project40 Ensemble
Each September, I perform with the Project40 ensemble. Led by Dominic Nudd, the concert attempts to perform classical, modernist works that are rarely performed or commercially recorded. Nudd terms this ‘positively provocative programming’ that concentrates ‘on British composers, ranging from the almost familiar to the completely unknown’. The project tackles a range of ambitious repertoire, from Judith Weir to Robin Holloway to Erika Fox and Michael Tippet. In many cases, Nudd invites the composers to come and watch the performances – and many do. It was a particular highlight to see Judith Weir in the audience in September 2025.
Nudd equally commissions new compositions for each concert, and hires upcoming conductors emerging in London. The concerts are always an excellent showcase of music and talent in the capital. I am looking forward to the performance in September 2026.
It was a real pleasure to witness in September 2025 an all-female composer programme that demonstrated not only the current talent, but equally that important historical fact that this talent has always existed. Conducted by Florence Price, the evening was a huge success.
“Thanks very much for last night --- a treat all-round--- the sort of programming we almost never get nowadays!” Robin Holloway (composer)
“I just wanted to write to say thank you so much for the wonderful performance of my piece last night! Please do pass on my thanks to the players as they did a marvellous job!” Anna Semple (composer)
Photo credits: Gido Karow
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.
