Wind Band Summer Camp

Spencer is the Creative Director of Guildhall Young Artists and conductor at Junior Guildhall where he heads up the brass department. 

Spencer works with producers and promoters across all genres of music including classical, rock & pop, and film. He has been orchestral director for high profile events including concerts for Queen Elizabeth II in the ballroom at Buckingham Palace and the world premiere of Grammy award-winning singer Imogen Heap’s Love the Earth at the Royal Albert Hall. 

He is Musical Director of Docklands Sinfonia and also conducts studio sessions, recently conducting the orchestral sessions for Netflix and for Britten Sinfonia. Honoured to be entrusted with Roy Budd's score to the 1925 classic silent film Phantom of the Opera, he conducted the premiere at London's Coliseum and subsequent performance at the Barbican. 

In 2012 Spencer received the Freedom of the City of London for his services to music.

Fraser MacAulay joined the Guildhall School of Music & Drama staff as Professor of Oboe in 2015 and is currently Deputy Head of Wind, Brass & Percussion (Woodwind). He initially read Zoology at Durham University before completing postgraduate studies with Stéphane Rancourt at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Christopher Cowie and Christine Pendrill at the Royal College of Music. During his time at the RCM, he was awarded the Lady Barbirolli Oboe Prize and received several scholarships, including a Martin Musical Trust Fund recital in the Royal Festival Hall. 

Since graduating in 2009, Fraser has enjoyed a successful and wide-ranging freelance career where he appears regularly as guest principal oboe and cor anglais with ensembles across the UK, extending his work into both symphonic and chamber orchestral settings and appearing on numerous film scores.  

Alongside his performing career, Fraser is increasingly active as a conductor and educator. At Guildhall, he conducts the Symphonic Wind Orchestra and frequently coaches wind and brass sectionals across the school and with amateur ensembles across the country.

Rob Farrer studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he learned with David Corkhill, Michael Skinner and Richard Benjafield. Through a varied career Rob has played and taught in a number of different genres, most notably as the Percussion Coordinator at Junior Guildhall and more recently as a Professor of Percussion in the Guildhall School Senior Department. Rob also takes regular classes at the Royal College of Music and examines the end of year and final recitals there too. For the last twenty years he has been running workshops with Lincoln Abbotts (ABRSM Executive Director) for companies such as the BBC, CitiBank and ABRSM Itself. 

Rob performs over a wide range of musical genres which has led him to perform and record with many of the country’s leading ensembles including The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, The BBC Symphony Orchestra, The Joby Burgess Collective and Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures Orchestra. The bulk of Rob’s career is now spent in the studio recording film and TV scores. He has performed well over 100 films including many from the Marvel series, Mission Impossible, Jurassic World, Wonka and Wicked: For Good.