Page 575 - Liverpool Philharmonic 22-23 Season Coverage Book

24 January 2023

New principal players for Royal Liverpool

Philharmonic Orchestra

The orchestra has recruited section leader viola and principal cor anglais

Drake Gritton and Nicholas Bootiman

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (RLPO) has appointed Nicholas Bootiman and Drake
Gritton as section leader viola and principal cor anglais respectively.

Violist Bootiman has shares the section leader role with Catherine Marwood. He studied at the
Royal College of Music in London and held a principal position with the Philharmonia Orchestra for
over a decade. He is the co-founder and artistic director of Echor Music, a chamber orchestra and
arts charity based in the Chiltern Hills.

Cor anglais player Gritton will start his role in autumn 2023. A recent graduate of the Royal
Academy of Music, he has performed with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, guest principal oboe
with the Royal Opera House Orchestra and Cor Anglais with the Philharmonia Orchestra.

’We are delighted to welcome these fine musicians to the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
and to Liverpool,’ said Michael Eakin, chief executive of the RLPO. ’To attract players of such