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Tom Lessels

@TomLessels

Clarinettist @ BBC Symphony Orchestra Academy of St Martin in the Fields My squeaks are my own

Joined August 2012
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I like these minuets by Maria Szymanowska so much, I’ve done another one! Following on from 1, 2 & 4 … here’s number 6, arranged for two violins. Download the sheets in the sheet shop! davidworswick.com/sheets/p/s…

Szymanowska - Minuet in D minor, Op.6, No.6 — David Worswick

Maria Szymanowska - Minuet in D minor, Op. 6, No. 6 - arranged for two violins by David Worswick Score and parts delivered in PDF format via download link

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Out now on @MarqueeArtsTV: Aurora’s Orchestral Theatre production of The Rite of Spring w/@nicholascollon. Huge thanks to @yleuutiset, @helsinkifest, @thespacearts and @bbcproms for making this project and recording happen – we're so glad we can finally bring it to you at home.
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How fantastic to be reminded yesterday of the sheer quality of this music - composers of such technical brilliance & artistic bravery. Thank you @BBCSO @BBCSingers @guildhallschool #MartynBrabbins, @ndanielmusic @TomLessels #AnnaDennis #JohnFindon @jonathancross @HarrietABoyd !!
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Thank you to all who joined us tonight at the Barbican for Total Immersion: Italian Radicals. ...especially to conductor Martyn Brabbins, soloists Anna Dennis, John Finden, @ndanielmusic, and @TomLessels – and to the @BBC_Singers. This concert was recorded for broadcast and will be played on @BBCRadio3 on 1 July. It will also be available on @BBCSounds.
Bass Clarinetist Thomas Lessels performs at the Barbican Hall

ALT Bass Clarinetist Thomas Lessels performs at the Barbican Hall

Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers

ALT Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers

Soprano Anna Dennis and tenor John Findon perform alongside the BBC Symphony Orchestra at Barbican Hall

ALT Soprano Anna Dennis and tenor John Findon perform alongside the BBC Symphony Orchestra at Barbican Hall

Martyn Brabbins (left) and Oboist Nicholas Daniel perform at the Barbican Hall

ALT Martyn Brabbins (left) and Oboist Nicholas Daniel perform at the Barbican Hall

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A sneak peek of what’s in store tonight at our concert @bravovail w/@joshuabellmusic (🎵sound ON) #joshuabell #bravovail #academyofsaintmartininthefields #asmf
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Boris Johnson has resigned as an MP after the Privileges committee found him to have misled parliament. The law is finally catching up with the wise guys of the Tory party.

Goodfellows: Boris Johnson resigns as MP

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A stunning concert tonight @barbicancentre👏. Huge thanks to the incredible performers @fatherjohnmisty, @julesbuckley and the BBC SO & Chorus, and the brilliant audience who joined us! Hear highlights on @bbc6music on 25 May at 9pm. 📷Mark Allan
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Image from BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus (@BBCSO)
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Image from BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus (@BBCSO)
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Very powerful visualization of the ancestral mathematics.
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Enjoying a private performance of Sibelius 5 in stunning Zaragoza with the magnificent @BBCSO and @oramsa
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🦢 🦢🦢🦢🦢🦢🦢
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Hoy os hablamos sobre el Concierto núm. 3 en Re menor para piano y orquesta de Rachmaninoff, que la Orquesta Sinfónica de la BBC y Boris Giltburg interpretarán mañana en el #AuditoriodeZaragoza. 😃 👇
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Nihat Agdac@NihatAgdac18 Apr 2023
Replying to @BBCSO
@BBCSO is on tour! Spain-Here we come! #bbcso #bbcsymphonyorchestra @oramsa @BorisGiltburg #inmoyang #Zaragoza #Valladolid #Oviedo #Murcia #Spain #España
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A warm welcome to three wonderful new musicians who joined the orchestra today; principal oboe Tom Blomfield, 2nd clarinet Jonathan Parkin and 2nd bassoon Graham Hobbs 🎶
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Pleased to be able to speak in @BambosMP's important debate on funding and support for classical music last night. It was a good opportunity to highlight the pressure many creative professionals are under and wider concerns around some of the funding cuts announced by ACE. 1/4
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Good that my friend @SDoughtyMP just mentioned the cuts to @bbcsingers and the cuts to the BBC orchestras @BBCPhilharmonic @BBCSO @BBCCO when talking about Creative Industries #Budgetdebate #WeAreTheBBCSingers
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RETURN OF THE JEDI artwork by Christopher Evans. Did you realise it's a matte painting?
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Naomi Pohl@NaomiPohl14 Mar 2023
As each day passes, more support lines up behind the @BBCSingers @BBCCO @BBCSO & @BBCPhilharmonic. The entire classical music community from conductors & soloists to composers & music publishers want the proposals to cut them scrapped. 🧵👇
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Composers have now added their voices to those condemning the proposed closure of the 99-year-old BBC choir, the BBC Singers. theguardian.com/music/2023/m…
BBC chief draws ire of 700 composers with ‘devastating’ plan to axe choir

BBC chief draws ire of 700 composers with ‘devastating’ plan to axe choir

Closure of BBC Singers was announced last week along with 20% cut to salaried positions in BBC orchestras

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This letter from the co-directors of @BBCSingers to BBC is absolutely extraordinary: an angry attack on certain (named) execs and BBC bosses for a total failure in planning, professionalism and simple human decency. Huge. #bbc #BBCSingers slippedisc.com/2023/03/leake…
Leaked letter: 'A toxic culture of fear and paranoia' at the BBC, from the D-G down - Slippedisc

Leaked letter: 'A toxic culture of fear and paranoia' at the BBC, from the D-G down - Slippedisc

We have obtained an excoriating letter sent to...

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of mental health but some times needs must. This is a truly awful governing party with awful instincts becoming all too clear. Reinstate Lineker and reinstate the Singers 3/3
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