Jenny Galloway has been principal oboe of the BBC Philharmonic since 2000, having joined in 1993 as sub-principal while still a student at the Royal Northern College of Music. She also appears as guest principal with some of the UK’s finest orchestras, and in 2012 joined the World Orchestra for Peace for the Solti Centenary Concerts in the US, and its BBC Prom in 2014.

Solo performances with the BBC Philharmonic include the Strauss, Mozart and Vaughan Williams concertos, and a recording of the Malcolm Arnold Concerto for Chandos in 2001. In 2020 she premiered Edward Gregson’s Oboe Concerto, which the BBC commissioned him to write for her.