Plays: Tuba

Teaches: Trombone, Euphonium, Tuba

Areas covered: Medway

Christopher Barrett is one Britain’s most distinctive tuba players and low brass teachers. A graduate of The Royal College of Music, he has spent his professional life making music everywhere and anywhere! 

As a keen and long-standing teacher he has seen how music can stimulate pupils to learn new things and to meet new people. His tuition focuses on the cultivation of a life-long passion for music; former students have gone on to pass their graded exams and graduate from places as far afield as Cambridge University, The Royal Academy of Music, the University of Arts Bern Switzerland and The University of Southern California. They can be heard playing in Britain’s top orchestras, West End shows and with all sorts of ensembles ranging from New Orleans style brass bands to amateur orchestras. 

He has taught masterclasses at Kings School Canterbury,  Wellington College, The University of Kent and The San Francisco Conservatory of Music amongst others and regularly works as a tutor for the National Children’s Orchestra. He is the Visiting Teacher of Lower Brass at King’s Rochester and at Forest School Epping. 

You can hear him in the concert hall where he has performed with The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Birmingham Royal Ballet and London Chamber Orchestra, amongst many others; in jazz clubs and festival stages premiering concertos with the Royal Orchestral Society, performing with Mobo award-winning Sons of Kemet and Mercury Prize nominated SEED Ensemble; on films with Warner Brothers and the London Contemporary Orchestra, or topping the charts with Sam and the Womp, David Gray, Ella Henderson and Duke Dumont. 

Chris advocates for musicians and was the former Managing Director of The Musicians’ Movement. He is currently is the Artistic Director of The Ensemble of the Golden Bough and the Managing Director of The PTC Record Label, where he has produced several critically lauded jazz and classical albums heard by millions of people.