Adrian Woodward

Biography

Adrian Woodward completed a DIP TCL in trumpet in 1995. He has a wide and varied career playing both early and modern music and improvisation. Adrian has played and recorded with many period instrument orchestras including the Gabrieli Consort and Players, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the King's Consort. He plays chamber music regularly with award winning trumpet virtuoso Alison Balsom OBE, has performed for the Royal Family on numerous occasions, recorded for music and film and worked with Sir Paul McCartney and Giles Martin at Abbey Road Studios. Adrian has been a Musical Director and multi-instrumentalist performer at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre since 1997. He has played period and modern scores in over 30 productions at the Globe Theatre including Hamlet, Twelfth Night, The Winter’s Tale and King Lear.