From left to right above the Oboe Band are:
Frances Norbury
Frances Norbury read Music at St John’s College, Cambridge before taking up a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music. She then spent two years on the Advanced Studies Programme at the Abbaye aux Dames, Saintes, and has since been working freelance, for, among others, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, The Gabrieli Consort, The King’s Consort, the European Brandenburg Ensemble and Florilegium. In 2004 she was awarded a grant by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust to spend a month travelling round Europe researching baroque dance.
Joel Raymond
Joel Raymond studied at Birmingham Conservatoire and the Royal Academy of Music. He has performed with many groups throughout Europe including The Hanover Band, The Academy of Ancient Music, Ex Cathedra, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Les Siècles (France), Barokanerne (Norway) and the European Union Baroque Orchestra. Joel also produces oboes based on historical models.
Rebecca Hammond
Rebecca Hammond (nee Stockwell) studied bassoon at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and on the Advanced Studies programme at the Abbaye aux Dames, Saintes. She now performs regularly with many of Europe’s leading period-instrument orchestras, including The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The English Baroque Soloists, Les Siecles, The Sixteen, The Hanover Band, The London Handel Orchestra and The Academy of Ancient Music.
Sarah Humphrys
Sarah Humphrys studied Baroque oboe, recorder and Renaissance wind instruments at the Royal College of Music and the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Switzerland. As well as the Oboe Band she is a member of the recorder quintet Fontanella and Meridiana, winners of the 4th International Telemann Competition 2007. She freelances throughout Europe and has performed as a concerto soloist with Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, the European Union Baroque Orchestra and The Hanover Band. She also plays regularly at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre where she was a musical director in 2007.