SUE TREHERNE
Sue Treherne grew up in Staffordshire and started playing the oboe at the age of 10 after being inspired by a recording of Sarah Francis playing the Britten Metamorphosen. She began her performing career in her school orchestra (at Clayton Hall Grammar School and the Staffordshire Youth Orchestra, later progressing to the National Youth Orchestra. She read music at Merton College, Oxford, where she was an Exhibition Scholar and then went on to postgraduate study at the Royal Academy of Music, where she added a teaching diploma to the performing diploma she already had. She studied the oboe with Eric Fletcher, Melinda Maxwell and Celia Nicklin. She decided not to pursue a career as a professional musician, and now juggles her love of playing the oboe with a professional career working for the London Borough of Greenwich in the field of community development. She is greatly in demand as a chamber and orchestral player, enjoying a wide variety of playing on the London amateur circuit. She is principal oboe in the Lambeth Orchestra, Cannons Scholars and City of London Symphonic Winds (and has now performed with all three groups as a soloist, as well as performing most of the major oboe concertos with a variety of orchestras). She performs regularly in many chamber groups, including the Manor Reed Trio.
