Michael Copley
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Michael Copley is a virtuoso flautist and recorder player. He is a professional musician who, as well as playing the recorder
and flute
, is an exponent of other traditional, early
and folk
woodwind instrument
s, most notably the ocarina
, an Anglo-Italian development of the ceramic vessel flute.
Recorder
The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument of the family known as fipple flutes or internal duct flutes—whistle-like instruments which include the tin whistle. The recorder is end-blown and the mouth of the instrument is constricted by a wooden plug, known as a block or fipple...
and flute
Flute
The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
, is an exponent of other traditional, early
Early music
Early music is generally understood as comprising all music from the earliest times up to the Renaissance. However, today this term has come to include "any music for which a historically appropriate style of performance must be reconstructed on the basis of surviving scores, treatises,...
and folk
Folk music
Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....
woodwind instrument
Woodwind instrument
A woodwind instrument is a musical instrument which produces sound when the player blows air against a sharp edge or through a reed, causing the air within its resonator to vibrate...
s, most notably the ocarina
Ocarina
The ocarina is an ancient flute-like wind instrument. Variations do exist, but a typical ocarina is an enclosed space with four to twelve finger holes and a mouthpiece that projects from the body...
, an Anglo-Italian development of the ceramic vessel flute.
Groups
- Cambridge BuskersCambridge BuskersThe Cambridge Buskers were a duo of British musicians, whose career began in the late 1970s and are now called The Classic Buskers, still going strong today.Michael Copley and Dag Ingram met when they were students at Cambridge University...
- Michael Copley (flute, recorder, ocarina, crumhorn) and Dag Ingram (accordionAccordionThe accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
) - 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)