Toby Street

Toby Street grew up in South-East London, where he started playing cornet aged 8, studying with Ray Allen, Tim Hayward and Kevin Street through Bromley Youth Music Trust. Awarded scholarships at the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music, Toby studied mainly with Paul Beniston and Alistair Mackie, and completed a joint principal jazz degree from the RCM, studying with Martin Shaw and Mike Lovatt.

Toby performs regularly with other leading UK orchestras including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and since August 2018, he has been a member of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

Beyond orchestral work, Toby is also a keen chamber musicenthusiast and founding member of the Riverside Brass
Quintet and Neoteric Ensemble. He has also worked with London Brass, Superbrass, and Septura. Toby’s commercial work includes large arena performances with Bastille, The Hoosiers, Public Service Broadcasting as well as commercial session work for albums, film scores and library music. Toby also regularly performs as lead trumpet with Oompah Brass. As a composer, and arranger, since 2019, he has arranged Christmas carols for the Philharmonia Brass Quintet’s Christmas E-card and made brass and vocal arrangements for Michael Mcintyre’s Christmas Show.

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