Born in Buckinghamshire, England at the age of 16 he was chosen fi nalist at the “BBC Young Musician of the Year” competition and today is one of the most renown trumpet players in his generation of international scale. He has studied trumpet with Michael Laird and musicology at Royal Holloway College. He is frequently playing with European Baroque orchestras such as the Gabrieli Consort, the English Baroque Soloists, the Academy Of Ancient Music, etc. To his most important CD recordings the Biber Sonatas, with Musica Antiqua Koln and works for trumpet by Johann Ludwig Krebs accompanied by Altenburg organist Prof. Felix Friedrich are to be named. Apart from playing Robert Vanryne is also an instrument maker. Many leading interprets play his copies of baroque trumpets.