Education
He resides in Merseyside and attended King David High School, Liverpool before attending the Royal Northern College of Music junior department where he studied clarinet with Nicolas Cox.
He resides in Merseyside and attended King David High School, Liverpool before attending the Royal Northern College of Music junior department where he studied clarinet with Nicolas Cox.
He was also Principal Clarinet in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, playing a Peter Eaton clarinet. After a term at the Royal College of Music, Simpson spent the rest of his gap year in Berlin, and attended Saint Catherine"s College, Oxford University reading for a Bachelor in Music from 2008-2011. He is a composer, who was commissioned by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain to write his first orchestral piece, Threads for Orchestra, which premièred at The Sage Gateshead on 1 April 2008.
His lieutenant Was As if the Earth Stood Still was broadcast over British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 3"s "Hear and Now" in November 2005, and his Lov(escape) in the concert he gave as one of the finalists in the Young Musician competition in September 2006.
In 2015 he was announced as the British Broadcasting Corporation Philharmonic"s Composer in Association. He has played at the Last Night of the Proms in 2007 at Hyde Park London, performing Artie Shaw"s Concerto for Clarinet.
On 3 July 2008 he played in Liverpool as the solo clarinetist for the premiere of Emily Howard"s Liverpool, The World in One City along with the Liverpool Youth Orchestra and 500 primary school children.