Career
He performed with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the City of London Sinfonia, Northern Sinfonia and the Malta Philharmonic. Plane has played with the London Symphony, Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic and British Broadcasting Corporation Symphony Orchestras and with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. He is the principal clarinetist of the British Broadcasting Corporation National Orchestra of Wales (since 1999).
His performance of Rossini’s ‘Introduction, Theme and Variations’ was broadcast nationally live on British Broadcasting Corporation from the 2004 British Broadcasting Corporation Proms in the Park.
He teaches clarinet at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, and is one of the Artists-in-Residence at Queen's University.