Education
Royal Academy of Music. Royal College of Music.
Royal Academy of Music. Royal College of Music.
Early Carter began playing the oboe at the age of 10. Musical His orchestral career began with the Philharmonia Orchestra as Company-Principal Oboe and then the English National Opera Orchestra as Principal Oboe. He joined the London Symphony Orchestra as Company-Principal Oboe in 1986 and was appointed to Principal Oboe in 1988, staying for almost twenty years before deciding to move to the Northern Sinfonia as Principal Oboe in late 2005.
He moved to Trinidad and Tobago in 2009 as principal oboist, professor of oboe, and overseer of performance excellence at the University of Trinidad and Tobago and the related orchestra.
Roy featured in the performance of Beethoven"s 9th Symphony featuring musicians from around the world, which took place under Leonard Bernstein on 25 December 1989, to commemorate the Berlin Wall. He and Bernstein maintained an amicable relationship until Bernstein"s death in 1990.
He performed both the Strauss (twice) and Mozart oboe concertos with the LSO, along with the Takemitsu concerto for Oboe d"amore and guitar with Julien Bream and the LSO. Carter performed chamber music with the Northern Sinfonia during his four-year stay with them. He also went on a concerto tour with the Queensland Philharmonic, and world premièred and recorded the Dominic Muldowney oboe concerto, which was commissioned for him, in 1994.
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Education Carter taught at the Guildhall School of Music between 1990 and 1995, and has also taught and coached at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music, where he was recorded for the televised "Great Musicians of the World" series. He has also given master-classes in Italy and coached the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, and was on the panel for the LSO Shell Scholarship for eighteen years. Freelance As a freelance player, Carter has appeared as Principal Oboe with all of Britain"s major orchestras:
London Symphony Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Philharmonia Orchestra
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Royal Opera House Orchestra
English National Opera Orchestra
Academy of Street Martin in the Fields
English Chamber Orchestra
Festival Ballet Orchestra
Scottish National Orchestra
Scottish Opera
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Ulster Orchestra
British Broadcasting Corporation Symphony Orchestra
British Broadcasting Corporation Welsh Symphony Orchestra
Welsh Opera
Kent Opera
Scottish Ballet
Royal Ballet
New Cantata Orchestra of London
London Mozart Players
Northern Sinfonia
English Opera Group
City Of London Sinfonietta
Carter has also played the music to numerous popular recordings and films, Including Star Wars Episodes I, II, III, and V, Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets, Braveheart, Nanny McPhee, Michael Flatley"s Lord of the Dance, and Paul McCartney"s "Working Classical" album, released in 1999.
He plays a Howarth Extra Large Oboe.
Roy was also a member of the Deutz Trio, alongside Paul Edmund-Davies (flute) and John Alley (piano), with whom he recorded four CDs.