
Richard Blake - Trumpet
A native of Belfast, Northern Ireland, Richard Blake studied as a chorister St George’s Parish Church and very soon discovered the trumpet and the piano. Reading music at York University before deciding to specialise in trumpet at the Royal Academy of Music, London, Richard was appointed to Principal Second Trumpet at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in 2015. In 2021 he took the decision to return to freelancing full-time, and was quickly engaged for principal trumpet work with major ensembles including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
You can buy Richard’s duo collaboration with Tom Freeman-Attwood, ‘Dialogues: I Symmetry’ here, or you can stream it from here.
