Crispian Steele-Perkins
Crispian Steele-Perkins is a trumpet soloist who is
world-renowned for the quality of his performances and wide-ranging
musical experience. On graduating from the Guildhall School
of Music, Crispian spent his early career playing with the English
National Opera and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He then
spent 15 years working in recording, TV and film studios,
developing a body of work which is universally recognizable today,
from Handel to James Bond themes and pop
classics.
His interest in collecting and restoring antique trumpets led him
to begin performing on them - you may have heard Crispian’s playing
introducing the BBC’s ‘The Antiques Roadshow’. His
unique performances and recordings on genuine historic instruments
led Continuo Magazine to describe him as ‘the world’s
leading player of the Baroque trumpet’. Playing alongside
some of the world’s greatest singers, Crispian’s purity of tone and
artistic subtlety has received critical acclaim for more than three
decades. Recordings of Handel’s ‘Let the Bright
Seraphim’ with Dame Kiri te Kanawa and ‘Eternal
source of Light Divine’ with James Bowman are
familiar to many. More recently his performances with Emma
Kirkby, Lynne Dawson, Carolyn Sampson, Bryn Terfel and Lesley
Garrett have firmly established his reputation. His work in
the studios has included more than 80 film, TV scores and
commercials, appearing alongside Sir Cliff Richard, Sir Bob Geldof,
Sir Harry Secombe, Kate Bush, Elaine Page, Chris Rea and Lulu. His
many Solo recordings extend from Purcell to Gershwin and his
largest “live” audience was 133,000 at the Edinburgh International
Festival.