Lunchtime Music

Matthew Osborne trumpet
Joanne Sealey piano

4tune Trumpet Quartet*
Ted James
Alex Tucker
Frankie Oldham
Matthew Osborne

Goedicke Concert étude
Ewazen Trumpet Sonata - 2nd mvt
Bozza Rustiques
Sherwin arr. Frankie Oldham A nightingale sang in Barnsley Square*

The Split Reeds Quintet
Luke Cutler oboe
Lucy Park clarinet
Ben Baldwin saxophone
Annabel Chadwick bass clarinet
Casper Shaw bassoon

Cowdy Starburst!
Debussy arr. Raaf Hekkema Childrens’ Corner (mvts 2, 5 and 6)
Mendelssohn arr. Ben Baldwin Hebrides Overture - 
Gershwin, arr. Raaf Hekkema Rhapsody in Blue (excerpt)
Piazzolla arr. Christopher Rueda Libertango

Matthew Osborne (pictured) started playing the cornet in 2007 and started having lessons from his dad in 2009. In 2013 he joined the Cornwall Youth Brass Band, which he attended for five years, completing courses under the baton of Ian Porthouse, Phillip Harper and the late Richard Evans.

In 2014, Matthew was awarded a music scholarship to King’s Hall Taunton. Under the guidance of Stuart Paul, he focussed on trumpet and won the Taunton Junior Young Musician of the Year competition in 2017. Matthew moved to King’s College Taunton n 2020, where he achieved his grade 8 with a mark of 97%. Matthew also gained a place in the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain where he played soprano cornet for three years. In the same year Matthew won the Junior Young Musician of the Year competition, then in 2022, he won The Senior Young Musician of the Year. At the end of his time at school Matthew was awarded a place at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire where he studied under Jon Holland.

During his time at RBC Matthew has been the principal trumpet of the City of Birmingham Youth Orchestra with whom he played Mahler’s 5th Symphony under the baton of Jak van Steen. When Matthew reached his second year, he finally said goodbye to the Somerset County Youth Orchestra of which he had been principal trumpet for six years. In his third year at RBC, Matthew won the Alfred Corfield Trumpet Prize.

The Split Reeds is a reed quintet made up of current students of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. The group formed in January 2024 and since then has been inducted into the International Reed Quintet Network and invited to perform at the Calefax International Reed Festival in November of 2025 alongside 40 other reed quintets.

The group formed from a mutual interest in new, exciting chamber music and unusual ensembles and in their time together they have enjoyed tackling established and new repertoire as well as working with contemporary composers to add new music to this unique lineup of woodwind instruments. The Split Reeds Quintet specialise in a wide range of repertoire spanning classical, folk, and contemporary works, with a special love for Romantic and 20th century pieces.

Running time approx. 55 minutes