Clare Hoskins

CLARE HOSKINS - oboe and cor-anglais Clare Hoskins read music at Trinity College, Cambridge, where she was a choral exhibitioner. Having then trained and worked as a primary school teacher, she left teaching to become a post-graduate student at the Royal Academy of Music, where she studied the oboe with Tess Miller and the cor anglais with Christine Pendrill for two years. Clare has worked extensively as a freelance player, including many years with Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Garsington Opera, and the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as performing as an extra player with English National Opera, the orchestra of the Royal Opera House, the BBC Concert Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, the London Mozart Players and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Clare still works in education, teaching for Camden and Haringey Music Services and taking part in music workshops and outreach projects for orchestras with which she plays, and for Create Arts, a charity which aims to transform the lives of disadvantaged people through the creative arts. Clare lives in Cricklewood with her husband – the conductor Paul Hoskins – and their three children, who are all musicians, too.