Michael Copley is a virtuoso flautist and recorder player. He is a professional musician who, as well as playing the recorder and flute, is an exponent of other traditional, early and folk woodwind instruments, most notably the ocarina, an Anglo-Italian development of the ceramic vessel flute.
Groups
- Cambridge Buskers - Michael Copley (flute, recorder, ocarina, crumhorn) and Dag Ingram (accordion)
- Sambuca - Michael Copley (recorder) and Peter Martin (lute, theorbo, guitar)
- The Classic Buskers - Michael Copley and Ian Moore (piano accordion)
- The Chuckerbutty Ocarina Quartet - Michael Copley, Yuzuro Yamashiro, Peter Martin, Michael S. Murray
Discography
- “Concerto for 2 mandolins etc.” - Pickett/Hogwood/Copley et al (Decca)
- “Vivaldi - Concerti” - Füri/Copley et al (Deutsche Grammophon)
- “Lloyd Webber Plays Lloyd Webber” - Lloyd Webber/R. Phil. Orch./Copley et al (Philips)
- “Tippett: Choral Works” - Copley/Hodges/Nallen et al (Nimbus)
- “Micro Classics” - Classic Buskers (Seaview)
- “Handel with Care” - Classic Buskers (Seaview)
- “Omnibusk” - Classic Buskers (Seaview)
- “The Ocarina is No Trombone” - Chuckerbutty Quartet/Copley (Seaview)
- “Sambuca” - Sambuca (Seaview)
