Maddy Aldis-Evans - Oboist / Cor Anglais player / Composer

Maddy was born in Leicester, UK. From 1989 - 1993 she studied at the Birmingham Conservatoire where she obtained a BA (Hons) Music 2:1, A.B.S.M (composition with merit) and a Postgraduate diploma in Professional Studies (Performance). In 1992 she was awarded the Conservatoire BA Prize and the award for an Orchestral Composition. A Countess of Munster Musical Trust award enabled her to continue her studies at the Royal Northern College of Music where she obtained a Postgraduate diploma in Advanced Performance and was awarded the 2004 RNCM Rawsthorn Prize for composition.

As a freelance player in the UK Maddy has worked with many of the countries leading orchestras including trials with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales (second oboe 2010 / 2011), the Philharmonia Orchestra (Cor Anglais 2005/ 2006) and the Manchester Camerata (Principal, Second Oboe and Cor Anglais Including trial 1999). Other orchestras with whom Maddy reguarly worked as a deputy player include the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (Second oboe, Cor Anglais), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (Second Oboe),  Halle Orchestra (Second Oboe and Cor Anglais), London Concert Orchestra (Principal and Second Oboe), Opera North (Second Oboe) and Viva (East of England Orchestra) (Principal, second oboe and Cor Anglais).

Maddy is currently employed by the Anhaltische Philharmonie , Dessau, Germany where she holds the position of second oboe with Cor Anglais. From 2004 - 2005 she worked for the Suedwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Konstanz, also as Second Oboe / Cor Anglais. In addition, from 2000 - 2005 Maddy was solo oboe at Kammerensemble Cologne where she performed many major oboe concertos including the Mozart Oboe Concerto, Albinioni D minor concerto, Cimerosa Oboe Concerto, Vivaldi D minor   and A minor Concertos, Bach Double Concerto, Donizetti Concertino for Cor Anglais and the Telemann Cor Anglais Concerto - a work which Maddy arranged herself and which is now in publication from June Emerson Wind Music. In 2000 Maddy was principal oboe of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company touring Orchestra.
As a Solo Performer Maddy is also frequently engaged. In 2011 she performed the Persichetti Parable for solo Oboe as part of the Anhaltisches Theater chamber music series in the Schloss Georgium, Dessau, a series in which she reguarly performs as a soloist and in chamber music. In 2009 she performed the Bach Double Concerto with Myra van Campen-Balint (leader of Anhaltische Philharmonie, Dessau) and Marcello Oboe concerto in D minor in Zahna Church, Germany. She had already performed the Bach with Martin Schulz (co-leader of Anhaltische Philharmonie, Dessau) in Marienkirche, Dessau. In 2003 Maddy was guest with the Chorley Music Society where she performed the Albinoni D minor Oboe Concerto and in 2000 she played the Mozart Oboe quartet and Francaix Cor Anglais Quartet as guest with Missenus Ensemble Bolton. Earlier solo performances included the Vivaldi D minor Oboe Concerto with Bolton Youth Orchestra and in 1993 the Martinu oboe concerto with the Birmingham Conservatoire Sinfonia.

As a composer Maddy has had many pieces performed in the UK and Europe including in March 2011 her "3 Sketches for wind quintet" as part of the Anhaltisches Theater's Chamber music series in the Schloss Georgium, Dessau. In the same concert series in 2009  "On darkness and light and dancers in shadows" - a trio for Oboe, Violin and Cello was premiered. In 2007, Uwe Steadter (solo oboist at the Anhaltische Philharmonie Dessau) premiered "Falling softly, towards you". As part of the theatre's educational outreach programme, Maddy's composition for wind quintet and narrator "The witches cat who lost her spells" is performed reguarly in the theatre and in primary schools in the region. The piece will also be performed in Hannover in May 2012 as part of the NDR Musiktage and in 2013 in Konstanz by the Suedwestdeutsch Philharmonie. The English language version of the piece is published by June Emerson Wind Music.

Maddy's hobbies include horse-riding and researching the Green Man in Germany.