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Emily White (trombone) Emily was inspired to play the trombone at Wells Cathedral School by Alan Hutt, and went on to study at The Royal Academy of Music. She studied with Ian Bousfield, Dudley Bright and Sue Addison. Emily gained a Masters Degree from Guildhall School of Music and Drama where the professors included Simon Wills and John Kenny. Emily has gone on to work as a freelance trombonist and sackbut player with orchestras such as the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, The King's Consort and The Academy of Ancient Music. She is a member of the English Cornette and Sackbut Ensemble, and directs the group Musica Antiqua of Dursley. She has played as a musician at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre since it opened in 1997, and was musical director of Much Ado About Nothing in 2007. Emily's main love is chamber music, and has recently broadcast the Stravinsky Octet and recorded the Poulenc Trio with the Fibbonacci Sequence. As a contemporary trombonist Emily has premiered the Secret House sonata written for female trombonist by John Kenny. They recently formed a duo and they are currently recording a CD of trombone music with British Music Label. Emily was Musician in Residence for Deveron Arts, in Aberdeenshire, 2007, where her début composition, Trio for Trombone, Bicycle Wheel and Voice was premiered. Emily teaches sackbut at the Royal College of Music, Trinity College of Music, and is visiting trombone teacher at Wells Cathedral School.