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Michael Hext (born c.1961) is a trombonist in the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. In 1978 he was the inaugural winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition.

Career

Michael Hext was educated at Bedford Modern School. In 1978, at the age of 17, he became the inaugural winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition. Following study at the Royal College of Music with John Iveson, Hext has become a successful orchestral trombonist but performs on occasions as a soloist, including a tour with the European Union Youth Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado. He has performed recitals and concertos at the Wigmore Hall, the Royal Festival Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and many other concert halls. He has also had a number of pieces written for him including a concerto by Edward Gregson (pub. Novello).

Amongst a wide variety of freelance performances he played with the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble. In 1983 he joined the Halle Orchestra as Principal Trombone. After one year he took up the same position with the London Philharmonic Orchestra for nine years.

For a period Michael Hext was Professor of Trombone at the Royal Academy of Music and then the Royal College of Music. Since joining the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House on Principal Trombone he moved to Sub-principal Trombone in 2000.

References

1. "Orchestra of the Royal Opera House". www.roh.org.uk.
2. The Guardian, Monday April 10, 1978, p. 10
3. "The Trombonist Autumn 2008 by British Trombone Society - Issuu". issuu.com. 17 December 2016.
4. School of the Black And Red, A History of Bedford Modern School by Andrew Underwood (1981); reset and updated by Peter Boon, Paul Middleton and Richard Wildman, 2010
5. "BBC Young Musician". BBC. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
6. "BBC - BBC Young Musician - Past winners". www.bbc.co.uk.
7. "London Music Diary for July". The Musical Times. 119 (1624): 562–564. 1978. JSTOR 959961 – via JSTOR.
8. "Composer". British Music Information Centre. 21 November 1982 – via Google Books.
9. "Trombone Concerto".
10. * McDonald, Donna: The Odyssey of the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble ISBN 2-88039-006-0
11. ^ "Hext, Mike (1961-Present)".
12. "Orchestra of the Royal Opera House". Royal Opera House. Retrieved 6 September 2021.

• 1961 births
• Living people
• People educated at Bedford Modern School
• British classical trombonists
• British male trombonists
• Alumni of the Royal College of Music
• Academics of the Royal Academy of Music
• Academics of the Royal College of Music
• 20th-century classical trombonists
• 21st-century classical trombonists
• 20th-century British male musicians
• 21st-century British male musicians
• Players of the London Philharmonic Orchestra
• Players of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House