Christopher Redgate Contemporary Oboe Music Specialist
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    ...the result of a quarter-century’s dedicated research and graft: one man’s love affair with the contemporary oboe. Redgate is one of a tiny band of oboists across the world who have made a life’s work of taking the instrument into the farthest reaches of technical virtuosity and physical capability, and in doing so inspired a generation of composers to create a virtuoso repertoire characterised by blazing compositional audacity and extremity."
    James Weeks – Tempo Magazine

Introduction...
 
I am currently an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Research Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts at the Royal Academy of Music. This post is enabling me to work on plans to redesign some of the keywork of the oboe and to develop a number of techniques that are currently problematic as well as working with composers to create a wide range of new repertoire. These are plans that I have been thinking over for many years. The website http://www.21stcenturyoboe.com covers the research of the fellowship along with a wide range of information about the contemporary oboe.
 
My recording of Pasculli's Le Api available on the Oboe Classics label has been up loaded with some pictures on to YouTube.
 
         
Another new instrument:
I have recently bought a Lupophon - a new type of bass oboe - see picture. This is the best bass oboe I have come across with a range from F at the bottom of the bass clef through to B above the treble clef - a fabulous solo instrument!
   

 

New CDs due out soon:
 
    Electrifying Oboe is a double CD set made up almost entirely of compositions for oboe and electronics. There wil be two versions of Roger Redgate's Concerto for Improvision Soloist and Two Ensembles, works By Christopher Fox, David Gorton, Edwin Roxburgh, Matt Wright and Michael Young. The CD's will be on the Metier Label.
    Also a new CD of my own solos and Trancendental Etudes  is due out very soon. Watch this space! 
    For a full list of CDs please see the CD pages.


     
     
     
    Side - Chris studying the new oboe
    Below - the redesigned oboe!