Shawn Spicer

Shawn Spicer makes a number of important contributions to London Symphonia. In addition to holding the position of principal trumpet, he is also the music librarian and production manager charged with the responsibility for ensuring that each performance is designed for maximum effect.

Originally from Nova Scotia, Shawn has picked up degrees from McGill and Yale universities. For almost 30 years he has also worked with orchestras and chamber groups across Canada from Symphony Nova Scotia to the Calgary based Foothills Brass Quintet to the West Coast of Vancouver Island at Bamfield’s Music by the Sea Festival.

In 1999, Shawn was appointed principal trumpet of Orchestra London where he played for 15 years and now proudly continues to perform in that chair as a member of London Symphonia. Recent performances have taken Shawn to Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, and Nova Scotia. He also performs regularly as a musician at the Stratford Festival. As a soloist Shawn has played a wide variety of concerti and solo works by Haydn, Hetu, Ligeti, Bennett and Bach.

Shawn loves to play baroque and renaissance music on original instruments. Performances on baroque trumpet and cornetto have taken him as far away as Japan and Brazil. He has played with Tafelmusik, Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montreal, the Sante Fe Early Music Society and the Theatro Municipale do Rio de Janeiro.

A committed educator, Shawn was trumpet instructor at the Canadian Forces School of Music in Borden, Ontario for 8 years and since 2003 he has taught trumpet at Western University in London.