George Bartle

George studied trombone and singing at the Royal College of Music, London and sackbut and singing at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland.
George has worked with many period ensembles and orchestras across the globe including the Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, The King’s Consort, His Majesty’s Sagbutts and Cornetts, Ex Cathedra, the Gabrieli Consort, English Touring Opera, Music Theatre Wales, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Philharmonia Chorus. His music has taken him to Africa, China, throughout Europe and the USA. He appeared in Love’s Labour’s Lost at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and on tour in 2009, Henry IV pt 1 and 2 in 2010, All’s Well That Ends Well in 2011 and Henry V and Twelfth Night in 2012. George also works as a composer and musical director in Globe Education having been MD in the Concert for Winter in 2012 and composer/MD for Our Theatre: The Winter’s Tale in 2013.
George has performed for Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, performs regularly on television and radio and can be heard on numerous film soundtracks and pop and classical album recordings. He has worked with a diverse range of artists, from Sir David Wilcocks and Kurt Masur to Eric Levi and Manfred Mann!