Michael Hext

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Michael Hext
Born1961 (age 62–63)
Occupation(s)Trombonist
Instrument(s)Trombone
Member ofOrchestra of the Royal Opera House

Michael Hext (born c.1961) is a trombonist in the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. [1] In 1978 he was the inaugural winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition. [2] [3]

Career

Michael Hext was educated at Bedford Modern School. [4] In 1978, at the age of 17, he became the inaugural winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition. [5] Following study at the Royal College of Music with John Iveson, Hext has become a successful orchestral trombonist but performs on occasions as a soloist, including a tour with the European Union Youth Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado. [6] He has performed recitals and concertos at the Wigmore Hall, [7] the Royal Festival Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and many other concert halls. [8] He has also had a number of pieces written for him including a concerto by Edward Gregson (pub. Novello). [9]

Amongst a wide variety of freelance performances he played with the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble. [10] In 1983 he joined the Halle Orchestra as Principal Trombone. [11] After one year he took up the same position with the London Philharmonic Orchestra for nine years. [11]

For a period Michael Hext was Professor of Trombone at the Royal Academy of Music and then the Royal College of Music. [11] Since joining the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House on Principal Trombone he moved to Sub-principal Trombone in 2000. [12]

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References

  1. ↑ "Orchestra of the Royal Opera House". www.roh.org.uk.
  2. ↑ The Guardian , Monday April 10, 1978, p. 10
  3. ↑ "The Trombonist Autumn 2008 by British Trombone Society - Issuu". issuu.com. 17 December 2016.
  4. ↑ School of the Black And Red, A History of Bedford Modern School by Andrew Underwood (1981); reset and updated by Peter Boon, Paul Middleton and Richard Wildman, 2010
  5. ↑ "BBC Young Musician". BBC. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  6. ↑ "BBC - BBC Young Musician - Past winners". www.bbc.co.uk.
  7. ↑ "London Music Diary for July". The Musical Times. 119 (1624): 562–564. 1978. JSTOR   959961 – via JSTOR.
  8. ↑ "Composer". British Music Information Centre. 21 November 1982 – via Google Books.
  9. ↑ "Trombone Concerto".
  10. ↑
    • McDonald, Donna: The Odyssey of the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble ISBN   2-88039-006-0
  11. 1 2 3 "Hext, Mike (1961-Present)".
  12. ↑ "Orchestra of the Royal Opera House". Royal Opera House. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
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