Bobby Kok

From Wikipedia:

Alexander “Bobby” Kok (14 February 1926 – 1 May 2015) was a South African-born British professional cellist. […] Between 1960 and 1965, he was appointed as principal cellist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. As well as orchestral performances, Kok also played chamber music in the Beaufort Trio, with Felix and the pianist Daphne Ibbott – broadcast live on the BBC Third Programme; and, when starting to teach music history at Dartington Hall in Devon in 1957, one year later he founded the Dartington String Quartet, with Colin Sauer, Peter Carter (violins) and Keith Lovell (viola). Kok was also a member of the London Octet and the London Ensemble. His debut as a solo performer was in 1960 at the Wigmore Hall, with one reviewer writing that his “tone was of a very appealing, mellow quality, and his musicianship was sensitively sympathetic and sincere”.

Moving later into commercial music, Kok became successful financially as a session musician in Britain, supplying backing music for well-known pop groups, as well as in the film, television and advertising world. His film credits include William Walton’s incidental music for Olivier’s trilogy Henry V, Hamlet and Richard III, as well as The Desert Rats, Lawrence of Arabia, Battle of Britain, Monty Python’s Life of Brian and Time Bandits. For television he was involved in Geoffrey Burgon’s incidental music for the BBC series Brideshead Revisited and numerous other programmes. As a backing musician, he recorded with many pop music stars, including Tony Bennett, Eric Clapton, Elton John and notably The Beatles – he was a particular favourite of their producer George Martin. He played cello on some of The Beatles’ biggest hits, including “Hey Jude“; later he featured as cello solo in the 1987 George Harrison album Cloud Nine. […]

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