Simon Standage was first played on NTS on 8 October 2023. Songs played include Concerto For Oboe In A Minor, RV 461.

Simon Andrew Thomas Standage (born 8th November 1941 in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire) is an English violinist and conductor best known for playing and conducting music of the baroque and classical eras on original instruments.

Biography and Career

From 1963-1967 he studied music at King's College, Cambridge University in 1963, following which he won a Harkness Fellowship to study with Ivan Galamian in New York City from 1967 to 1969.

After a 1972 Wigmore Hall debut, he became a founding member of Trevor Pinnock's period-instrument ensemble The…