About Philip Joslin - Orchestrator, Conductor and Singer

After successfully completing a BA Hons. in Music at Bristol University where I also conducted the Chamber Orchestra, the Opera Society in works by G&S, Kurt Weill and myself, I moved back to the London area.  Since then, I have conducted many of the Gilbert and Sullivan canon with local amateur societies. 

I was nominated for 'Best Musical Director' at the Buxton International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival for my work with Abbots Langley Gilbert and Sullivan society for their production of Iolanthe (2004).

Having played Principal French Horn with the Reading and Berkshire Youth Orchestras, and then with the Bristol University Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, I have a large and varied experience of orchestral writing. I was fortunate enough to play works such as Holst's Planets Suite, Stravinsky's Firebird, Petruchka and The Rite of Spring ballet music amongst many other classical and romantic era works.

I have written and arranged many choral pieces for amateur groups and have conducted major works including Mozart's Requiem, Bach's St John Passion and Beethoven's 9th Symphony.  I have also taken parts in a number of the G&S operettas on stage, including 'Fairfax' for Pinner and Hatch End Operatic Society Musical Players at Watersmeet Theatre Rickmansworth and 'Tolloler' with Andrew Shore (ENO) in Pinner.