As a freelancer, Linton regularly plays with many of the UK’s leading professional orchestras including The BBC Philharmonic, The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, The Hallé Orchestra, English National Opera, English National Ballet, Opera North, Manchester Camerata and Aurora Orchestra. He currently holds a bassoon chair with the Chineke! Orchestra where he plays both orchestral and chamber works by mainstream and under-represented composers.

A facet of his career that he particularly enjoys is broadcasting. He regularly presents orchestral concerts for BBC Radio 3 and has fronted the show Sounds Connected and Music Matters. He is the presenter for Radio 3’s Classical Fix show and has appeared on Scala Radio also and presented for BBC television documentaries.

A passionate advocate for equality, Linton has served on the Musicians Union equalities committee for over 5 years and, since 2020 was elected chair of this committee. He also works as a consultant within the arts and further afield on the subjects of diversity and inclusion. Clients have included BBC Philharmonic/NOW/Scottish/Symphony, CBSO, Ulster Orchestra, Association of British Orchestras and NBC film studios. He is on the change committee for the global music publisher Hal Leonard.

Linton also holds the position of Artistic Associate with The Multi-Story Orchestra. An organisation whose vision of inclusivity and artistic collaboration he strongly believes in.

He is an Artist In Residence with Ark Schools with whom he teaches and coaches young musicians. He’s also given workshops for students at the Royal Northern College of Music and for bassoonists of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.

In 2021 Linton joined the board of governors for both Chethams School of Music and the Orion Orchestra.

Nigel is a former solicitor with over 40 years experience, specialising in family law work. He was until October 2024 a consultant with national firm Mills & Reeve having previously been the firm’s national Head of Family Law.  In the later stages of his career he practised as an arbitrator and supported the firm in specific projects.

Her catalogue of over 30 solo recordings features new concertos she has commissioned by Gary Carpenter, Nigel Clarke, Martin Ellerby, John McLeod, Stephen McNeff, Edwin Roxburgh, Philip Sparke, Philip Spratley, Kit Turnbull and Guy Woolfenden for labels such as Naxos, Chandos, NMC, Guild and Metier. She has also released première recordings of clarinet quintets with the Navarra and Kreutzer Quartets by composers including Nigel Clarke, Robert Crawford, Wilfred Josephs, John McCabe and Edwin Roxburgh, with recordings of works by Gary Carpenter, Michael Finnissy, David Horne, Paul Patterson and Paul Pellay due to be released in 2018. In addition, Linda has commissioned and recorded over 20 works for clarinet and electronics, and released two CDs featuring works with clarinet and harpsicord by Robert Keeley.

Linda has performed as a concerto soloist across America, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America, the UAE and the UK, and broadcast for BBC Radio 3, Radio France, DRS1 Switzerland, CKWR Canada and Arte TV South Korea. A founder member of the contemporary ensemble ‘Sounds Positive’, she has premiered over 80 chamber works for winds and piano by British composers, and released a further three CDs.

In addition to her position as RNCM Principal, Linda is Chair of Conservatoires UK and a member of the International Advisory Council for the Creative Industries Federation. She is also Vice-President of the Clarinet and Saxophone Society of Great Britain and the UK Representative for Howarth Clarinets.

She is clinical lead/ director for Children’s Cancer Network Coordinating Group/ Children’s cancer pathway Board for the North West of England, the Late Effects MDT and The Paediatric Oncology diagnostic MDT.

She is a member CCLG of (Children’s cancer and Leukaemia Group) and soft tissue sarcoma group, the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Sarcoma group, Chairman of the NCRI Sarcoma YOSS subgroup, and the NCRI Sarcoma subgroup for Bone sarcomas. She is associate director for Research and Innovation (Governance) for the Central Manchester Foundation Trust.

She is involved in National and International Research in Soft tissue and Bone sarcomas. In Europe she is part of the EpSSG soft tissue research group and the Euro Ewing Consortium and the ExPERT group for rare tumours of childhood

She is a parent of a pupil at the school but despite their musical talents, she is not musically trained and any musical skills she learned in junior education have been long forgotten. She can, in her opinion, hold a note in church services and speech days!