Dominic Kelly

Born in 1974, Dominic graduated from the University of East Anglia in 1996 with a 2:1 Honours Degree in Music. At UEA, Dominic participated in much orchestral and chamber music as well as concerto appearances and electroacoustic premieres featuring the oboe. He also held the Hansell Stevenson Scholarship for Instrumental Tuition which enabled him to continue lessons with Nicholas Daniel. In 1990, Dominic appeared in a televised Woodwind Masterclass with the flautist Phillipa Davies and was a semi-finalist in the 1992 BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition. Since then, he has played in Denmark, France, Spain, Germany and Holland and has performed oboe concertos by Cimarosa, Francaix, Marcello, Mozart, Howard Thomas, Vaughan Williams and Woolfenden. As a freelance oboist Dominic has played with orchestras such as The Britten-Pears, Britten Sinfonia, Brunel Ensemble, Haydn Chamber, London Mozart Players, London Schubert Players, London Soloists Chamber, Norwich Philharmonic and the Young Musicians' Symphony. Dominic was described by Le Monde as an 'exceptional oboist' and by the Nouvel Observateur as 'Devilish, for he plays Berio with the same ease as he would Telemann', having performing Berio's Chemin IV for oboe and strings in Paris in collaboration with the acclaimed Ensemble Intercontemporain last year. Dominic has also featured on the latest album by acclaimed techno artist Judge Dredd, playing the oboe in a techno and electroacoustic environment (release: Autumn 1998, Machine Codes). Projects this year include chamber music engagements with the Priors Hill Quartet in Ireland and France having recently been signed to Chameleon Arts Management; and a series of concerts called The Spectral Oboe in England, Ireland and America to promote several new electroacoustic works by British composers featuring the oboe, thanks to a substantial grant from both the Arts Council of England and the Eastern Arts Board. Dominic plays on a Rigoutat Evolution and financial assistance towards its purchase was kindly granted by The Church Tenements Society of Croydon and The Robert Bouffler Music Trust.