Antara Duo – Flute & Harp Concert

Thomas Hancox is co-principal flute of Britten Sinfonia and works regularly as guest principal flute for other orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, English National Opera, and English Chamber Orchestra, amongst others.

Solo and chamber projects have led to collaborations with artists and ensembles including the Allegri, Castalian, and Sacconi string quartets, Haffner Ensemble, Trevor Pinnock, Stephen Hough, and Jeremy Denk, with recitals in prestigious venues and festivals throughout the country and further afield.
He also has the privilege of recording scores for film and television, with recent titles including James Bond, Doctor Who, Spiderman, The Crown, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

Thomas read Music at St Peter’s College, Oxford, from where he graduated with a first, before pursuing further studies in Paris with Patrick Gallois, and subsequently at the Royal Academy of Music with Paul Edmund-Davies and Samuel Coles, finishing with a distinction and the honorary DipRAM.

In his spare time, he is an avid cook, a moderately keen gardener, and enjoys anything written by D. H. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh, and Graham Greene.

In 2019 he was made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.

Rachel Wick is a graduate of St Peter’s College, Oxford and the Royal Academy of Music. She plays with many of the UK’s leading orchestras including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. She also plays a nineteenth-century Erard harp, most recently with the Gabrieli Consort and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. With the Senbla Concert Orchestra, Rachel has performed live on stage with the English rock band Procol Harum and for Quincy Jones’ 85th birthday concert at the O2 Arena.

Rachel has recorded with New College and Christ Church Cathedral Choirs, Oxford and has broadcast live on Classic FM from Buckingham Palace with Her Majesty’s Choir of the Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace. Other film and session work includes playing on Howard Goodall’s album Inspired, appearing on screen in Mission Impossible – Rogue Nation, being filmed for Google’s ‘Inside Abbey Road’ virtual online tour, and playing in the session orchestra for ITV’s Sound of Music ‘Live’.

Alongside a large private teaching practice, Rachel teaches harp at Berkhamsted School and the Junior Department of the Royal Academy of Music, and coaches for the National Children’s Orchestra.

In May 2018 she was made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music. She is the co-director of the Dunster Festival