Duke Dobing made his début with the English Chamber Orchestra when he was eighteen and participated in a number of Aldeburgh Festival concerts and recordings conducted by Benjamin Britten. He was Principal Flute of the English Sinfonia and of the City of London Sinfonia, where he made over eighty CDs in 25 years. In 2000 he became the Orchestra’s Development Director, then Head of External Relations at Aldeburgh Music and is now Director of Development with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.