Will Padfield

Horn

ORCHESTRAL AND ENSEMBLE EXPERIENCE

BBC Concert Orchestra
BBC Symphony Orchestra (3rd/4th horn)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (guest Principal)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (2nd horn)
English National Ballet Orchestra
Hallé Orchestra, including 2017 BBC Prom
London Chamber Orchestra (guest Principal)
Northern Ballet
Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Orchestra of Opera North (3rd horn)
Royal Ballet Sinfonia (guest Principal)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (3rd horn)
Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra
Royal Northern Sinfonia (guest Principal)
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (guest Principal)
Ulster Orchestra

COMMERCIAL/SESSION AND TV WORK
Hilary Skewes Ltd
COOL music
Strictly Come Dancing, Dave Arch
RPO sessions
HBO productions
National Symphony Orchestra/Debbie Wiseman
Netflix productions “The Crown”
Naxos recording with Britten Pears Orchestra

ORCHESTRAL TRAINING
Music Academy of The West Fellow, 2020/21
Britten Pears Orchestra, Principal horn, 2018
Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra, Principal horn
RNCM Symphony Orchestra/Paris Conservatoire Orchestra - Performed first horn in Wagner’s Ring “An Orchestral Adventure”. Included Siegfried horn call - live on BBC Radio 3
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Academy

CONCERTOS, CHAMBER MUSIC AND MASTERCLASSES

2023 Soloist with Orchestra for the Earth
2021 Masterclasses with Julie Landsman and Jennifer Montone
2019 Britten Serenade with the Exeter Bach Society
2018 Gregson Horn Concerto in two concerts with the National Youth Wind Orchestra
2018 Masterclasses with Radovan Vlatkovic and Stefan Dohr
2018 Mozart’s Horn Concerto no. 3 with St John’s Chamber Orchestra
2017 Founder member of Quartet Menine- recipients of 2023 RPS Philip Jones brass prize

PRESENTING, TEACHING AND OUTREACH
Horn teacher at South Hampstead High School and Kings College School, Wimbledon
Horn coach at Eton College
Presenter / narrator of Hallé Orchestra “Dinosaurumpus” at Bridgewater Hall in December

EDUCATION

2018 - 2020 Royal Academy of Music – Masters, recipient of the Leverhulme Trust Scholarship
Teachers: Michael Thompson, Martin Owen, David Pyatt, Katy Woolley, Richard Watkins

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Instruments
Horn, Baroque Horn, Conductor, Natural Horn, Wagner Tuba