About
NEWS: Guy has recently been awarded a prestigious Queen Elizabeth Scholarship (QEST) which will fund professional development with Daniel Bangham and Peter Worrell and visits to museums in Germany and Edinburgh to study Historic clarinets of the 19th century.
Guy Cowley studied clarinet at the Royal College of Music, after which he worked as a professional clarinettist for 18 years performing on both modern and period instruments and teaching clarinet for 10 years at the Royal College of Music Junior Department.
Performing on period instruments he has worked with orchestras including English Baroque Soloists, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Orchestre de Champs-Élysées and Academy of Ancient Music.
Guy studied woodwind instrument making and repair at The School of Musical Instrument Crafts in Newark, qualifying with distinction and winning the woodwind prize for his copy of Richard Mühlfeld's Ottensteiner clarinet. (measurements were taken with kind permission from Meininger Museen)
He set up his workshop in 2008 and has since been making copies of historical clarinets for professional clarinettists. All of the instruments he makes are based on historical models; visiting museums to make extensive measurements and where possible, playing the instrument to gain invaluable insight into its sound and response. All reamers and tooling specific to each instrument are made in the workshop. Instruments and mouthpieces are all made from raw materials. Keywork is either hand forged or cast depending on suitability.
Performing on period instruments he has worked with orchestras including English Baroque Soloists, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Orchestre de Champs-Élysées and Academy of Ancient Music.
Guy studied woodwind instrument making and repair at The School of Musical Instrument Crafts in Newark, qualifying with distinction and winning the woodwind prize for his copy of Richard Mühlfeld's Ottensteiner clarinet. (measurements were taken with kind permission from Meininger Museen)
He set up his workshop in 2008 and has since been making copies of historical clarinets for professional clarinettists. All of the instruments he makes are based on historical models; visiting museums to make extensive measurements and where possible, playing the instrument to gain invaluable insight into its sound and response. All reamers and tooling specific to each instrument are made in the workshop. Instruments and mouthpieces are all made from raw materials. Keywork is either hand forged or cast depending on suitability.