Oboe Weekend 
3-5 August 2001
Neil Black and
Janice Knight
Nick Murray, accompanist
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In this course Neil Black and Janice Knight will give a series of classes on all aspects of oboe playing and reed making and also en-courage participants to play together in chamber music: Nick Murray will be the pianist in residence: the atmosphere is informal. Players of Grade VI and up to diploma standard are most welcome.

Neil Black, the well-known oboist, has performed and recorded most of the solo repertoire. As principal oboe of the London Philharmonic and later the English Chamber Orchestra, he has toured worldwide.

Neil Black has also been a professor of the oboe at the Royal College of Music, and currently teaches at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He was awarded the O.B.E. in 1989.

Janice Knight studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London where Neil Black was her professor.
She has often appeared at the South Bank and the Wigmore Hall, and at music clubs throughout the country. She has broadcast solo recitals for BBC Radio 3 and appears with chamber groups performing music from baroque to contemporary.

Janice Knight works for all the symphony orchestras of London, playing the four instruments of the oboe family - the oboe, cor anglais, oboe d'amore and bass oboe. She has appeared at concert halls and festivals in such countries as Brazil, Japan, Taiwan, the USA, Israel and most European countries. She also teaches and coaches, having always regarded these as an important part of her life. She gives classes on chamber music at Morley College, London.