Michael Copley is a British virtuoso flautist and recorder player. He is a professional musician who, as well as playing the
recorder Recorder or The Recorder may refer to:
Newspapers
* ''Indianapolis Recorder'', a weekly newspaper
* ''The Recorder'' (Massachusetts newspaper), a daily newspaper published in Greenfield, Massachusetts, US
* ''The Recorder'' (Port Pirie), a newsp ...
and
flute
The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...
, is an exponent of other traditional,
early
Early may refer to:
Places in the United States
* Early, Iowa, a city
* Early, Texas, a city
* Early Branch, a stream in Missouri
* Early County, Georgia
* Fort Early, Georgia, an early 19th century fort
Music
* Early B, stage name of Jamaican d ...
and
folk
Folk or Folks may refer to:
Sociology
*Nation
*People
* Folklore
** Folk art
** Folk dance
** Folk hero
** Folk horror
** Folk music
*** Folk metal
*** Folk punk
*** Folk rock
** Folk religion
* Folk taxonomy
Arts, entertainment, and media
* Fo ...
woodwind instrument
Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the greater category of wind instruments.
Common examples include flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, and saxophone. There are two main types of woodwind instruments: flutes and ...
s, most notably the
ocarina
The ocarina (otherwise known as a potato flute) is a wind musical instrument; it is a type of vessel flute. Variations exist, but a typical ocarina is an enclosed space with four to twelve finger holes and a mouthpiece that projects from the bo ...
, an Anglo-Italian development of the ceramic vessel flute.
Groups
*''
Cambridge Buskers'' - Michael Copley (flute, recorder, ocarina, crumhorn) and
Dag Ingram (
accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German language, German ', from '—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a Reed (mou ...
)
*''Sambuca'' - Michael Copley (recorder) and Peter Martin (lute, theorbo, guitar)
*''The Classic Buskers'' - Michael Copley and Ian Moore (piano accordion)
*''The Chuckerbutty Ocarina Quartet'' - Michael Copley, Yuzuru Yamashiro, Peter Martin, Michael S. Murray
Discography
*“Concerto for 2 mandolins etc.” - Pickett/Hogwood/Copley et al. (Decca)
*“Vivaldi - Concerti” - Füri/Copley et al. (Deutsche Grammophon)
*“Lloyd Webber Plays Lloyd Webber” - Lloyd Webber/R. Phil. Orch./Copley et al. (Philips)
*“Tippett: Choral Works” - Copley/Hodges/Nallen et al. (Nimbus)
*“Micro Classics” - Classic Buskers (Seaview)
*“Handel with Care” - Classic Buskers (Seaview)
*“Omnibusk” - Classic Buskers (Seaview)
*“The Ocarina is No Trombone” - Chuckerbutty Quartet/Copley (Seaview)
*“Sambuca” - Sambuca (Seaview)
*"A little Street Music" - Copley/Ingram (Deutsche Grammophon)
External links
Michael Copley's home page
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
British buskers
British recorder players
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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