Robert Saxton is the featured composer this month and has written two remarkable works for oboe spanning several decades. Plans are afoot for more oboe works from this fantastic composer so do…
Cheryl Frances-Hoad
Featured this month, are two works by the English composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad. Both written in the early twenty-first century, these works by Frances-Hoad are significant additions to the concerto and chamber music…
Michael Berkeley
This month we feature the composer, Michael Berkeley. Having contributed a Concerto, Oboe Quintet and five other significant works for Oboe and Cor Anglais to the repertoire, the music of Michael Berkeley…
Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade
Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade is the latest composer to be featured in the Journal. Having won the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize in 2015, Ninfea was featured by the Presteigne Festival where Ravens’ Cage was…
James Williamson
James Williamson is the latest composer to be featured in the Journal. James’ composition, The Fifth Element, has also been published in the New Oboe Collection in partnership with Composer’s Edition. Below,…
Edmund Jolliffe
This month Edmund Jolliffe’s solo work for oboe and pre-recorded oboes is featured in the Journal. Edmund’s work, Pan, has also been added to the New Oboe Collection curated in partnership with Composers…
Thomas Hyde
This month, we are pleased to announce that Thomas Hyde has joined the New Oboe Collection curated in partnership with Composers Edition (click here to view). Thomas’ music for Cor Anglais & Piano…
Judith Bingham
This month’s featured composer is Judith Bingham. Below are notes by Judith on all of her works for Oboe and Cor Anglais. I learnt the oboe for a couple of years in…
Helen Grime
Helen Grime studied both oboe and composition at the Royal College of Music and so knows the instrument extremely well. As well as her Oboe Concerto (written in 2003) which won an…
Emily Doolittle
This month, we feature Canadian-born, Glasgow-based composer and oboist Emily Doolittle. Emily has very kindly written detailed notes on her oboe repertoire below. We are very pleased to announce that the first…