Robert Plane
has enjoyed a career encompassing solo and chamber work, as well as
holding the principal clarinet positions of the City of Birmingham
Symphony Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia and, currently, the BBC
National Orchestra of Wales. As guest principal clarinet he
has played with some of the world's greatest orchestras, including
the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Amsterdam and the London Symphony Orchestra. He has played
concertos with the Bournemouth
Symphony, Ulster Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, RTE National
Symphony Orchestra, Zurich Chamber Orchestra and the Dortmunder
Philharmoniker, and he made his BBC Proms concerto debut in
2011.
Robert is
a successful recording artist who is particularly highly regarded
for his Naxos recordings of Finzi, Stanford, Ireland and Howells.
His account of Finzi's Clarinet Concerto won Classic CD Magazine's
'Best Concerto Recording' Award and was selected as BBC Radio 3's
recommended version in 'Building a Library'. Gramophone Magazine
has hailed recordings of 'ravishing lyricism and conviction by
Robert Plane, who has now surely fully occupied the shoes of the
late Thea King in his championship of British clarinet music.' His
recording of Messiaen's 'Quartet for the End of Time' with the
Gould Trio was praised by BBC Music Magazine as the 'best modern
account' of this monumental work.
robert's masterclasses are in great
demand, with recent visits to the Royal Academy of Music and Royal
College of Music in London, Beijing Central Conservatory and the
San Francisco Conservatory.