Geoffrey Coates’s career began at the age of 19 when he first went on stage with Florilegium. Since then he has performed frequently with leading orchestras in all of London’s major concert halls, broadcast on BBC and worldwide radio stations and appeared on television with the English Baroque Soloists under John Eliot Gardiner. He enjoys a growing profile as a soloist, having toured in Europe with The Hanover Band and performed concertos in venues such as Barbican Hall and St-Martin-in-the-Fields. An accomplished performer on modern and historical oboes, his teachers included Frank de Bruine, Gail Hennessy and Richard Simpson.