Richard Bissill is a French horn player, composer and arranger, and Professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
[2] The ensemble's work has also included projects with popular music and jazz artists and Bissill has been featured in an improvisatory role many times.
Whilst still a teenager, he played with the BBC Radio Leicester Big Band and later the National Youth Jazz Orchestra with which he made several recordings.
His improvisatory abilities and skill in jazz styles are well known throughout the world and he is often selected for sessions or by visiting bands from abroad requiring a horn player who can swing and/or improvise.
[5] Bissill has been a professor of horn at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama since 1983 and many of his students from this period have progressed to successful horn-playing careers throughout the world.