Education
Royal Academy of Music.
Royal Academy of Music.
During 1998 he was a Prizewinner at both the Markneukirchen and Carl Nielsen International Flute Competitions, and was awarded the Meaker Fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music. He was a wind finalist in the RTÉ Young Musician of the Future and a semi-finalist at the Concert Artists Guild Competition in New New York Gary Arbuthnot gives regular recitals for Fred Olsen and Cunard Cruise Lincolnshire and he has also performed as a soloist at venues including the South Bank Centre in London, the Waterfront Hall in Belfast, Pollack Hall in Montreal and the National Concert Hall in Dublin.
Scheme bringing classical music to those audiences who would not normally get to concerts.
These include prisons, hospitals, day centres, and hospices all around the United Kingdom. Recent broadcasts have included performances for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 3, Classic FM and British Broadcasting Corporation, Independent Television, Canadian and Sky Television.
Other prizes include the Albert Cooper Flute Competition, an English-Speaking Union Scholarship, the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Three Young Artists Forum and awards from the Hattori Foundation, Countess of Munster Musical Trust, Abbado European Young Musicians Trust and Foundation for Sport and the Arts. He works with guitarist Mark Ashford (Winner British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 2 Young Musician of the Year) as part of Yehudi Menuhin"s Live Music Now!.
He has also appeared at the Stratford International Flute Festival, Banff Festival for the Arts, Chichester Festivities, the Northlands Festival and as a member of the LYS Ensemble was nominated for the prestigious Hamada award at the 1997 Edinburgh International Festival.