Michael Axtell
Flute
Flautist, conductor, teacher, arranger, coach, Michael is all of these and more. He spent eighteen years as principal piccolo and principal flute with the English National Opera Company (1967-1985) and prior to that he played with numerous orchestras and ballet companies. His live and solo work includes broadcasts for BBC Welsh, Swansea Sounds Sinfonia and the BBC Bandstand Programme, together with solo performances on TV and radio.

Worldwide he has performed at opera houses and concert halls in New York (Metropolitan), San Antonio, New Orleans, Austin, Munich, Bordeaux, Brussels, Lisbon and Madrid. He was also a flute clinician at the Mid-Atlantic Flute Fair in Washington DC and ran a master class at the Elon College in North Carolina and was a chamber music coach at the Orlando Festival in Holland. His London West End musicals include The Sound of Music, The King and I, Les Miserables, La Cage aux Folles, Barnum and 42nd Street.

He has taught the flute for twenty-seven years in Bromley as well as at Morley, Eltham, St. Dunstans and Dulwich College and Blackheath Conservatoire. Many of his pupils have achived entries to music colleges as well as Oxford and Cambridge.