The concluding guest blog by Jennifer Paull follows here. Do take a moment to find out more about Jennifer and the works she has commissioned and premiered which are linked at the…
The Oboe d’amore: Mission Impossible lll
In this penultimate part of the guest blog series by Jennifer Paull, she guides us through more of her experiences with composers and her fascinating life in the music world. In October…
The Oboe d’amore: Mission Impossible II
Following last week’s guest blog post by Jennifer Paull, she continues her series about commissioning a new repertoire of music for the entire oboe family. In 1970, having decided I had to…
The Oboe d’amore: Mission Impossible I
In a slight change to normal proceedings, this month sees a guest blog in four parts by the musician Jennifer Paull. Across several decades, Jennifer commissioned and premiered many new works for…
Brian Elias
This month, Brian Elias is the featured composer with his highly acclaimed Oboe Quintet and Electra Mourns. The latter won a British Composer Award in 2013 and Elias’ Oboe Quintet is a…
Sadie Harrison
This month, Sadie Harrison is the featured composer with her fantastic solo oboe pieces ‘Three Jennys’ and work for solo oboe d’amore or oboe ‘Jinny’s Haiku’. For those oboists currently taking ABRSM…
Stephen McNeff
This month, Stephen McNeff is the featured composer of the Journal. With works for Oboe and Cor Anglais in his catalogue, the music featured below takes both instruments in new and interesting…
Michael Small
This month, Michael Small is the featured composer of the Journal. His fantastic new oboe quintet, Jali, was written for his father Jonathan Small (Principal Oboe, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic). Jali (2017/18) Instrumentation:…
Diana Burrell
This month, Diana Burrell is the featured composer of the Journal. With a number of works featuring oboe and cor anglais from the past 30 years, Diana has contributed the following fantastic…
Melinda Maxwell
This month the oboist and composer, Melinda Maxwell, is featured in the Journal. The extensive catalogue of fantastic oboe solo and chamber works below spans over three decades and shows the wonderful…