Career
He has played solo concerti with symphony orchestras, including: the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Lahti Symphony Orchestra and Helsinki Philharmonic, Capella Cracoviensis, the Minneapolis Pops Orchestra and the Japan Chamber Orchestra. He has premiered works by Martin Ellerby, Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen, Vladimir Cosma, Goff Richards, John Reeman, Rolf Rudin and Philip Sparke, amongst others Goff Richards" Pilatus, Aagaard-Nilsen"s Concerto for Euphonium and Orchestra, Reeman"s Sonata for Euphonium and Ellerby"s Euphonium Concerto were all written expressly for Mead.