Delphian Records is a small Edinburgh

Edinburgh

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-based independent classical record label

Record label

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 founded in 2000 by two students of the University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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, Paul Baxter and Kevin Findlan with start-up funding from two private individuals and support from the Princes Scottish Youth Business Trust.

The label has had a special focus on chamber and instrumental music and is particularly involved in the recording and promoting of new music. Following a substantial grant from the Scottish Government, the label released its first part-orchestral record in 2008 with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Scottish Chamber Orchestra

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 and Garry Walker.

Notable artists on Delpian's roster include:
Michael Bonaventure, Gordon Ferries, Robert Irvine, John Kitchen, Simon Smith, David Wilde

David Wilde

David Wilde is an English pianist and composer. As a boy he studied with Solomon and his pupil Franz Reizenstein, who had also studied composition with Hindemith and Vaughan Williams...

, The Choir of Gonville and Caius College/Geoffrey Webber, National Youth Choir of Great Britain/Mike Brewer OBE and Laudibus

Laudibus

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/Mike Brewer OBE.