and his Quintet with Mervyn Saunders
Charles Ernesco studied the violin at the Guildhall School of Music under Max Mossel , and got his first engagement at the age of twenty as an extra in the London Symphony Orchestra at the Leeds Festival of 1925. For five or six years he played at Covent Garden during the international season. Since 1933 he has worked with such artists as Van Phillips , Ben Frankel , Eugene Pini , Ray Noble , and Leslie Bridge water. In 1934 he formed his popular Quintet, which has been regularly on the air ever since.