Angela Barnes

Having started horn lessons with her mother at the age of eight, Angela went on to study at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, where she has recently been invited to return as Professor of Horn. During her final year of study she was offered the 2nd horn position with the London Symphony Orchestra, and upon joining became the first female member of the orchestra’s brass section in its hundred year history. A keen chamber musician, Angela features in the second instalment of the Cala Records ‘London Horn Sound’ series and appears alongside tenor Allan Clayton in a recording of Britten’s Canticle Three, recorded for BBC Radio Three as part of the New Generation Artists scheme. Appearances at the front of the orchestra include Strauss’ Second Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican as part of the BBC YMOTY 2002 Final, and more recently as part of the solo quartet in Schumann’s Konzertstuck with the LSO in Berlin’s Philharmonie. She is very much a cat person, currently besotted by her cross-eyed ginger tom, Eddie.