Philip Pickett

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Philip Pickett (born 19 November 1950 in London, England) is an English musician, recorder player and director of early music ensembles, notably The New London Consort. Philip Pickett started as a trumpet player. He met Antony Baines and David Munrow who encouraged him to try early woodwind instruments such as the recorder, shawm and rackett. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He was forced to give up the trumpet after being kicked in the mouth while being assaulted on the London Underground at the end of his first year there. In 1972 he became Professor of Recorder and Historical Performance, a post he held for 25 years. He has played for the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, The English Concert, the English Chamber Orchestra, the London Mozart Players and many other orchestras. Philip introduced theatrical elements into his concerts, including foyer performances of juggling and fire-eating. In 1976 he joined the Albion Band, a folk-rock band led by Ashley Hutchings. They played a mixture of traditional folk music and medieval tunes on a wide range of instruments - curtals, shawms, recorders, crumhorns, bagpipes, rackets, chalumeaux and synthesiser. Also in the group was John Sothcott from the early music group St George's Canzona, playing vielle, citole and crumhorn. Philip was on all four singles by the group. In 1988 he released his only solo album, appropriately called The Alchemist. It included a few of his own compositions in a mock-m

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Sinners & Saints: The Ultimate Medieval and Renaissance Music Collection

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Reflections Of Silence - CD4

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Alchemist

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Vivaldi: 14 Concertos (For Mandolin, Flute, Trumpet, Violin, Etc.)

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Dark Age Of Camelot

Tielman Susato: Dansereye 1551

The Bones of All Men

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The Speech Of Angels [2 Of 4]

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Susato: Danseyre 1551

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Vivaldi: 14 Concertos (for Mandolin, Flute, Trumpet, Violin, etc.)

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Bones of All Men

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Susato: Dansereye 1551

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