- Big band
- Brass quartet/quintet
- Choir (with or without keyboard)
- Clarinet choir
- Double reed ensemble
- Duet (of the same instrument)
- Guitar (incl. tab) & vocal
- Jazz quartet
- Jazz trio
- Marching band
- Mixed ensemble
- No specific instruments (e.g. worksheet)
- Orchestra
- Orff ensemble
- Percussion ensemble
- Piano & vocal
- Piano four hands
- Piano trio
- Quartet (of the same instrument)
- Quintet (of the same instrument)
- Sextet (of the same instrument)
- Solo instrument
- Solo instrument & piano
- String orchestra
- String quartet/quintet
- Trio (of the same instrument)
- Wind quartet/quintet
- Wind/brass band
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Mr Richard Wilkins
Born in 1948 in the West Midlands, Richard Wilkins' early musical experiences were as a member of The Midland Boy Singers. He enjoyed public performances and critical acclaim of his music whilst still in his teens. He also studied the cello with the late Leslie Sutton.
He studied Chemical Engineering at Sheffield University and during that time expanded his musical experience as a member of a chamber choir specialising in liturgical music and also discovered the pleasures of playing chamber music.
Richard has been composing more or less continuously since the 1960's. He has developed his compositional skills from the performer's point of view, writing music for various choirs and ensembles that he has encountered. Whilst he may have felt himself to have been unfashionably conservative in the 70's and 80's, you may now find his music more in keeping with current tastes for accessible modern classical music.
In 2002 Richard Wilkins took early retirement from a thirty year career in engineering in order to devote more time to composition. He now lives with his wife Grace in Bampton, West Oxfordshire. They both sing in the choir at the parish chuch of St. Mary the Virgin, Bampton which has prooved to be a good testing ground for Richard's church music.
