James Kerby
French Horn
James Kerby was born in 1983 and educated in Grantham, until gaining a place at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester at the age of ten. He gained a place in the National Youth Orchestra and, in 2001, was awarded a scholarship to study under Richard Watkins and Michael Thompson at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In 2002, James played in the Academy Symphony Orchestra at Buckingham Palace for the Queen's Jubilee celebration in front of a live audience of 12,000 and some 350 million television viewers! He has also appeared as soloist with the Academy Orchestra, as well as with Elton John at the Royal Opera House in London.