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Neil McLaren was born in Cornwall and studied at Trinity College and the Royal College of Music, where he was awarded the E.F. James Prize for the most outstanding wind player. Scholarships enabled him to study in Paris, after which he returned to London to commence a freelance career.

He has worked with all the capital's major symphony, chamber, opera and baroque orchestras. He has appeared in recital at the Wigmore Hall and the Purcell Room, and performed concertos at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and St John's Smith Square, playing flutes ranging from the Renaissance to the present day.

Neil McLaren gave the British Première of Halil for Flute and Orchestra by Leonard Bernstein at the Barbican Centre, and is a member of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique.