Simon Desbruslais is a trumpet soloist, whose performances have been critically acclaimed as ‘steel-lipped’, ‘musically compelling’ and possessing ‘supreme confidence and flair’. Equally active in baroque and contemporary music, Simon has recorded extensively for Signum Classics including most recently The Art of Dancing and Psalm: Contemporary British Trumpet Concertos. Since his breakthrough season in 2012/13, Simon has given concerto performances in China and Brazil, appeared as soloist with Royal Northern Sinfonia, English Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Orchestra of the Swan, Charivari Agréable, Brook Street Band, Ensemble Diderot and London Concertante, and as a guest chamber musician with the Ligeti Quartet, Austral Harmony, Little Venice Ensemble and Ensemble Perpetuo. Simon was educated at King’s College London, the Royal College of Music and Christ Church, Oxford. He is Lecturer in Music at the University of Hull, where he is also Director of Performance, having previously taught at the universities of Bristol, Nottingham, King’s College London and Surrey.