Rachel Broadbent is a professional, freelance oboist, oboe d’amore, and cor anglais player, as well as an educator and arranger/composer of oboe educational music and double reed ensemble music. She has a varied musical career that includes performing, teaching, music arranging, and running Chase Oboe Reeds.
Rachel studied at Birmingham Conservatoire with Jonathan Kelly and George Caird, where she won the Birmingham and Midland Institute Woodwind Prize and the Rollason Award for Performance. She was also chosen to perform an Albinoni Double Concerto with George Caird. For her postgraduate studies, she moved to the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where her oboe tutors were Richard Simpson and Kieron Moore.
In her professional career, Rachel has worked with many orchestras and ensembles, including the BBC Concert Orchestra, London Concert Orchestra, Brandenburg Sinfonia, New London Orchestra, Mozart Festival Orchestra, and Southern Sinfonia. As a soloist, she gives regular recitals with her accompanist Kevin Vockerodt and has performed a variety of Baroque Concertos with the Southern Sinfonia.
As an educator, Rachel teaches young oboists around London and Hertfordshire in various schools and has tutored at the ‘Big Double Reed Day’. She is also a published arranger and makes oboe reeds for oboists around the country. Her dedication to music and education is evident in her contributions to the next generation of musicians and her active involvement in the music community.