Simon Hogg arranger

A graduate of the National Youth Orchestra and the Royal Academy of Music Simon Hogg became a founder member of The Fine Arts Brass in 1980. During this time he performed two thousand concerts, visited over sixty countries, recorded 150 BBC radio and TV broadcasts and made 25 commercial recordings. The ensemble commissioned seventy works by leading British composers and performed at most major British and European music festivals.

In 1994 Simon founded Warwick Music, a specialist publisher of brass music commencing with an unknown work for Trombone & Organ (1894) by Gustav Holst which he discovered in the British Museum. In 1996 Simon was made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM), only awarded to alumni who have distinguished themselves in the music profession.

He taught trombone at the Royal College of Music, Junior Department for ten years, adjudicated for the BBC Young Musician of the Year and was Senior External Examiner at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama. In 2014 he was honoured as by the British Trombone Association.

Simon Hogg is currently Director of Music (performance) at Warwick School and conducts the University of Warwick Brass Band. He enjoys cinema, reading and has an unhealthy fascination for Venice and Italian wine.