Nicholas Ireson
Musician
In the case of French Horn player Nicholas Ireson this includes opera, classical and contemporary music, played in myriad venues ranging from freezing church halls to opera pits and even packed football stadia…
Background
Having taken up the horn aged twelve, switching after six formative years on the trumpet, Ireson established himself at both his school orchestra and the local music service in his home county of Hertfordshire. Aged eighteen he was accepted to read music at Christ Church College, Oxford University. After graduating from Oxford, he moved to London in order to take up a two year scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music, which provided the training required for the professional work which he began to receive during his time there.
The most picturesque venue
- St George’s in Hanover Square
- Wigmore Hall,
Those two are ‘in no way exhaustive. You have a positive experience of a venue if your performance goes well. If you go to a pub and have a bad date, that doesn’t mean it’s a bad pub’
Performances
- John Williams’ film music, at Barbican and at Birmingham’s Symphony Hall
- Stadion Miejski in Poznan, accompanied Sting as part of the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra
The ‘French Horn’ and working environment
The French Horn is an instrument with a large potential for mistakes so nerves are never entirely absent from Ireson’s live performances, but studio recordings can be even more pressurised. Film score sessions are hard to come by, lucrative but with limited time frames, so it’s crucial not to be the musician whose errors slow everyone else down.
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