LONARC OBOE TRIO
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Wednesday 23 July 2025Doors: 6.30pm
Concert: 7.30pm Duration: 90 min (including interval) Tickets: £25 Adults, £15 Concessions (Under 16s) |
Join us for a summers evening concert of Oboe Trio music from late 18th century Vienna to modern day London with works by Beethoven and Roxburgh including the world première of his new Scottish themed oboe trio.
Raving Winds Around Her Blowing, based on a Robert Burns poem composed in 1788 which was accompanied by M'Grigor of Rora's Lament (1784) sourced from MacDonald's Highland Airs. This work is dedicated to the oboist Robin Miller (1942-2014).
This concert is promoted by the Lonarc Foundation.
Raving Winds Around Her Blowing, based on a Robert Burns poem composed in 1788 which was accompanied by M'Grigor of Rora's Lament (1784) sourced from MacDonald's Highland Airs. This work is dedicated to the oboist Robin Miller (1942-2014).
This concert is promoted by the Lonarc Foundation.
ProgrammeEdwin Roxburgh
Shadow-Play (1984) Ludwig van Beethoven Variations on ‘la ci darem la mano’ from Mozart’s Don Giovanni Theme Andante Variations 1-8 Coda Edwin Roxburgh Raving Winds (2025)* i. Flowing ii. Slow + Calm iii. Animato * a Lonarc Foundation commission made possible with grant aid from the Vaughan Williams Foundation ~interval~ Ludwig van Beethoven Trio in C major, Op. 87 i. Allegro ii. Adagio cantabile iii. Menuetto + Trio iv. Presto |
The Lonarc Oboe Trio was first formed in 1991 with Joseph Sanders, Judy Proctor and James Horan.
In order to offer a more varied repertoire for our concerts James started to compose his arrangements for Oboe Trio - as such following directly in the footsteps of fellow 18th century oboists Went and Triebensee. In 1999, James was appointed Principal Cor Anglais with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Owen Dennis joined the Trio in 2007. The Trio members are all graduates of the Royal Academy of Music in London and are all experienced freelance orchestral players who all play on Marigaux instruments. |
Joseph Sanders
Joseph Sanders read Modern Languages at Cambridge University before studying the oboe for 2 years with Janet Craxton in London (R.A.M.) and for 2 years with Heinz Holliger in Freiburg/Germany on an extended DAAD scholarship. He was awarded 1st Prize in the Leila Bull Oboe Competition in 1978amongst various other accolades.
Since 1983 he has freelanced worldwide, from principal oboe with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe to all the major London and other symphony orchestras. He has performed in Japan, China, Australia, South and North America, Mexico and throughout Europe. He has extensive experience of playing opera, ballet, West End shows, chamber orchestra, session work and contemporary music.
As a member of Ensemble Modern/Frankfurt for over 20 years, he worked with Karlheinz, Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, Hans Werner Henze, Helmut Lachenmann, Klaus Huber, Heinz Holliger, Oliver Knussen, George Benjamin, Steve Reich, Peter Eötvös, György Kurtag, Emmanuel Nunes, Maurizio Kagel, John Cage and many more.
Since 2008 he has played extensively as guest principal oboe for the London Symphony Orchestra, under Valery Gergiev, Sir Colin Davis, Pierre Boulez, Daniel Harding and Kristjan Järvi etc.
Since 1983 he has freelanced worldwide, from principal oboe with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe to all the major London and other symphony orchestras. He has performed in Japan, China, Australia, South and North America, Mexico and throughout Europe. He has extensive experience of playing opera, ballet, West End shows, chamber orchestra, session work and contemporary music.
As a member of Ensemble Modern/Frankfurt for over 20 years, he worked with Karlheinz, Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, Hans Werner Henze, Helmut Lachenmann, Klaus Huber, Heinz Holliger, Oliver Knussen, George Benjamin, Steve Reich, Peter Eötvös, György Kurtag, Emmanuel Nunes, Maurizio Kagel, John Cage and many more.
Since 2008 he has played extensively as guest principal oboe for the London Symphony Orchestra, under Valery Gergiev, Sir Colin Davis, Pierre Boulez, Daniel Harding and Kristjan Järvi etc.
Owen Dennis
Owen Dennis read Mathematics at Cambridge University before studying the oboe at the RAM with Dougie Boyd and then at the Rotterdam Conservatoire with Emmanuel Abbuel. He won the RAM Leila Bull Prize for Oboe, RPO Martin Fund Award, Countess of Munster Musical Trust Scholarship and was a Royal Oversea's League Wind/Brass finalist in 1999. He is a founder member of the Galliard Ensemble (Wind Quintet) who were BBC Radio 3 New Generation artists 2002-4. They were also nominated for a Royal Philharmonic Society Award for their discography of 5 Cd’s including critically acclaimed recording of Birwistle chamber music. Owen joined the Lonarc Oboe Trio in 2007 when they reformed. Owen is currently playing principal oboe with Opera Holland Park (City of London Sinfonia) and has recently been playing with London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia, and Mozart Players amongst others. As a soloist Owen has given recitals at the QEH, St James' Piccadilly, St Martin-in-the-Fields and Queens' College, Cambridge. He has performed the Mozart Oboe Concerto with the Portobello Orchestra in St Peter's, Kensington and Bach Concerto for Violin and Oboe with the Nascot Symphony, Corpus Christi Orchestra and Trinity College, Cambridge. Owen is experienced at giving educational workshops with the Galliard Ensemble, the Lonarc Oboe Trio and City of London Sinfonia. He also teaches Mathematics at Brighton, Hove and Sussex 6th Form College.
Judy Proctor
Judy Proctor was a Junior Macfarlane Exhibitioner at the RSAMD where she studied with Philip Hill and Robin Miller before coming to study at the RAM with George Caird where she was a member of the Manson Ensemble with Paul Patterson. In 2011 she performed Aaron Coplands 'Quiet City' with The Keld Ensemble. She then went to USA to attend a masterclass with Carolyn Hove where she gave the US Premiere of 'Billingbear' (2009) by Judith Bingham for solo Cor Anglais. In 2014 she performed the Marcello Concerto at St Martin in the Fields and in Muscat, Oman followed closely by the Violin and Oboe Double Concerto by Bach with the Keld Ensemble and the Lebrun Concerto with Harrow Symphony Orchestra. Orchestrally she has played amongst others, with the Philharmonia, BBCSO, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Royal Northen Sinfonia, RTE Concert Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, Ulster Philharmonic and BBCNOW. In June 2024 she performed Benjamin Britten’s 6 Metamorphoses after Ovid op49 as part of a modern Dance Triptych chorepgraphed by Kim Brandstrup.