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…
Johannes Brahms was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period, born on May 7, 1833, in Hamburg, Germany. He passed away on April 3, 1897, in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria). Brahms is often grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the “Three Bs” of music, a comment…
Max Bruch was a distinguished German composer, violinist, teacher, and conductor, born on January 6, 1838, in Cologne, Prussia, and he passed away on October 2, 1920, in Berlin-Friedenau, Germany. He is particularly remembered for his contributions to the Romantic era of music and is best known for his violin concertos, especially his Violin Concerto…
Georges Bizet, originally named Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer of the Romantic era born on October 25, 1838, in Paris, France. He is best known for his operas, particularly Carmen, which has become one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertoire. Bizet was a prodigy at…
Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual was a Spanish virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor, born on May 29, 1860, in Camprodon, Catalonia, Spain. He passed away on May 18, 1909, in Cambo-les-Bains, France. Albéniz was a child prodigy who first performed at the age of four and made his concert career debut at the age…
Jade Bultitude is a talented flautist and dedicated music educator with a passion for nurturing the next generation of musicians. She holds a Master’s degree from the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, where she studied under Anna Noakes and Margaret Campbell. Prior to her master’s studies, she graduated with a Bachelor of Music…
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period, born on March 31, 1685 (O.S. March 21), in Eisenach, Thuringia, Ernestine Saxon Duchies (now Germany). He passed away on July 28, 1750, in Leipzig1. Bach is now generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time and is…
Georg Philipp Telemann was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist, born on March 14, 1681, in Magdeburg, Brandenburg, Germany. He passed away on June 25, 1767, in Hamburg. Telemann is one of the most prolific composers in history, with a surviving oeuvre that is among the largest of any composer. Telemann was considered by his…
Franz Joseph Haydn, often referred to as Joseph Haydn, was an Austrian composer born on March 31, 1732, in Rohrau, Austria. He passed away on May 31, 1809, in Vienna12. Haydn is celebrated as one of the most prominent figures in the development of the Classical style in music during the 18th century and is…
Of Belgian descent, Victor Frédéric Verrimst was born in Paris on 29 November 1825 and studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Louis François Chaft (double bass), Antoine Elwart (harmony) and Simon Leborne (counterpoint). He worked as a double bassist at the Opéra- Comique and later the Paris Opera and at the Société des Concerts du…
