Richard Earle received his Bachelor of Music degree from The New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and then went on to study Performance Practice with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Baroque oboe with Jùrg Schaeftlein in Salzburg.
In 1980, after playing for two years with Ars Musica Baroque Orchestra in Michigan, he moved to London where he has been a regular member of The English Baroque Soloists, the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, and The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. He has appeared with many of the British and European period-instrument groups in concerts and recordings and is a founder member of the London Oboe Band.
Since 1996 he has been professor of Baroque and Classical Oboe at the Royal College of Music, London. As well as playing, he is a maker of copies of historical oboes.
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