Roger Argente (Bass Trombone) Interview
By Matthew Knight (Co-Principal Trombone)
This month we say goodbye to a true titan of our brass section, our inimitable bass trombonist of 26 years, Roger Argente. Roger joined the RPO in 1992 and has been a formidable force in the orchestra ever since. One of the RPO’s biggest characters, he is also a fixture of the busy London session scene, and has recorded hundreds of soundtracks for film and TV.
Hear pop music like you’ve never heard it before when, on Friday 12 October at the Royal Albert Hall and Saturday 23 February at Town Hall Symphony Hall, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra presents Symphonic Pop, a concert dedicated to the world’s greatest hits, arranged for a full-sized symphony orchestra chorus of backing vocalists, and full rhythm section.
This Thursday, 6 June, we're delighted to share the stage with esteemed cellist Michael Petrov for our highly anticipated 'Elar's Cello Concerto' concert by the sea at Bexhill De La Warr Pavilion, as part of Bexhill Festival of Music, 2019.
Michael won the Guildhall School of Music gold medal in 2014; first prize in the Trondheim Competition in 2015 and the Wigmore prize in 2017.
by Emer McDonough (Principal Flute)
Since hearing last year that we were performing the complete Daphnis et Chloé at the BBC Proms, thoughts of it have never been far from my mind. A mixture of excitement and anxiety had been murmuring in my subconscious all this time.
