The eFlute Team
ABIGAIL BURROWS and JANNA HÜNEKE
Abigail Burrows enjoys a varied musical career working mainly as a freelance orchestral player, session and pit musician. She has worked with many UK orchestras, including the Philharmonia, London Mozart Players, National Symphony Orchestra, London Concert Orchestra and BBC Concert Orchestra, as well as numerous West-End and touring shows (incl. Les Misèrables, Wicked, Phantom of the Opera, and The Lion King).
As a soloist and chamber musician, Abbie has performed extensively throughout the UK. Career highlights include playing the solo flute part of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto no.5 with The Philharmonia in Switzerland, and an invitation to play at a Jethro Tull concert at The Barbican, performing a solo and duet with the legendary rock-flautist Ian Anderson. She has been an invited Guest Artist at the National Flute Association Convention (U.S), Adams International Flute Festival (Netherlands), Aflaup Festival (Portugal), Polish Flute Festival, Spanish Flute Convention, La Côte Festival (Switzerland) and Australian Flute Festival.
An innovative and enthusiastic teacher, Abbie has been a guest artist on numerous flute events and courses, working with thousands of flute players over the years. She currently teaches at the Royal Academy of Music junior department and previously taught at The Purcell School and Junior Guildhall. She has also been a resident tutor for Flute School London courses for twelve years and is a keen supporter of flute charity Flutewise.
Abbie studied with Anna Pope at The Purcell School, Susan Milan at The Royal College of Music and continued her studies privately with Michael Cox and Robert Winn. She currently resides on a houseboat on the River Medway and likes to spend her spare time at her seaside flat in Margate.
She is a Haynes Artist.
Janna Hüneke, born in Germany, has been devoted to music and the flute for most of her life. Growing up in a musical family, she was surrounded by music from birth - her father was a professional singer and her mother a keen pianist. As children, Janna and her siblings were taught to sing & hold a part on their own, which she now realises was invaluable musical education. Once Janna discovered the flute, she was hooked for life! She studied with Averil Williams at the Guildhall School of Music in London, while she was also taking a Degree in Music at the City University, London. Since then Janna also studied with Patricia Morris, Geoffrey Gilbert & Peter Lloyd.
Janna's musical career has taken several routes - she started teaching the flute early on whilst building her reputation in both the UK and Germany, freelancing with many different orchestras and chamber ensembles, touring all around Europe, sometimes as a soloist, sometimes in orchestras or small ensembles. Janna has also spent some time in the recording studio working on film sessions, background music and other recording, occasionally to be heard on BBC Radio 3 and WDR in Germany. Janna played for Pimlico Opera & Grange Park Opera for many years and has been a member of the ensemble Harmoniemusik for 30 years. During 2020 she co-founded the Gainsborough Ensemble with cellist Natasha Holmes, which focusses on authentic performances in diverse settings.
Janna continues to build her teaching practise and is in demand as a teacher throughout the country and abroad. She founded & runs Flute School London, which is now in its 12th successful year.
Janna plays an Altus flute with an Arista headjoint.
eFlute Academy Guest Artists
Previous Guest Artists have included GARETH MCLEARNON, GASPAR HOYES, IAN MULLIN, KATHERINE BRYAN, CLARE SOUTHWORTH, LISA NELSEN, CARLA REES, JANE BERKNER, ALI RYERSON, CARRIE CLARKE, ANNA NOAKES, CLARE JEFFERIS, WISSAM BOUSTANY,COBUS DU TOIT, GITTE MARKUSSON, TOM HANCOX, ALENA WALENTIN, SARAH O’FLYNN, SIMON GILLIVER and HOLLY COOK.
Please browse through the list of artists below, all of which kindly contributed to the eFlute Festival in 2020 and/or 2022.
They were all amazing and we hope to invite them all back for future eFlute classes. Watch this space!
eFlute Festival Guest Artists
Katherine Baker
Katherine Baker was given the job of Principal Flute with the BBC National Orchestra Wales within two years of graduating from the Royal Academy of Music in 1998. Four years later she moved to the same role with the Hallé Orchestra and in her 14 years in Manchester, Katherine cemented her position as one of the leading flautists in the country. Among many memorable performances in her time there, definite highlights include the fifth Brandenburg Concerto with Angela Hewitt and Paul Barritt, Mozart's Flute and Harp concerto with harpist, Marie Leenhardt and acclaimed first flute roles in Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe and Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde.
Katherine has also appeared as principal with many of the country’s leading orchestras, including the LSO, Philharmonia, LPO and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Earlier this year, she performed Mozart’s Flute and Harp concerto with Lucy Wakeford and the Northern Chamber Orchestra.
Last year Katherine was fortunate enough to secure the role of Principal Flute with the Orchestra of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and in September 2018 she moved from Derbyshire to Kent with her husband, four children, two cats and three grandparents.
After relocating down south Katherine sadly had to give up her professorship at the Royal Northern College of Music but is passionate about passing on the benefit of her experience and love of flute playing and enjoys giving classes or teaching privately whenever possible.
Katherine was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in 2009.
Philippe Barnes
Philippe Barnes graduated from the Univ. of Limerick in 2008 with an MA - First Class Honours in Irish Traditional Music Performance. He specialises in Irish Music on the Silver Flute and is currently playing in the Olivier award winning show "Come From Away" on Uilleann Pipes, Whistles and Flute. You might have heard him recently playing all those things on Sanditon for ITV, or baroque flute for feature film EMMA.
“breathtaking” – MOJO
“I’ve heard nobody else who can make the Boehm flute sound like the true traditional thing, who can mould tone to fit the tune so nicely… the sheer musicality is exceptionally impressive…” – Jon Brophy, Irish Music Magazine
www.philippebarnes.com
Jane Berkner
Jane Berkner was described by Flute Talk Magazine as “a versatile performer...(and) outstanding musician". She taught at The University of Akron for 25 years, freelancing with local and regional orchestras and in the pit for touring shows at EJ Thomas Hall in Akron and Playhouse Square in Cleveland. She has released 2 CDs, and tours the US and Europe with her flute and guitar duo, AronBerkner. She is founder of a chamber music collective, which Cleveland Classical describes: “in the crowded field of efforts to “disrupt” the world of staid programming, Urban Troubadour’s multi-part evenings feel distinct and vital.”
Jane is the Director of a summer Flute Choir Camp for adults at the Interlochen Center for the Arts. She served as Coordinator of the National Flute Association’s High School Flute Choir, and was Director of the Northeast Ohio Flute Association Flute Ensembles. While she was Director of The University of Akron Flute Ensemble, the group was invited to play at NFA conventions in Pittsburgh and Chicago, and presented a concert tour in Italy. She has worked with flute ensembles of all ages and sizes, and is currently Co-Directing ensembles at The Music Settlement, a community music school in Cleveland, Ohio.
Katherine Bicknell
Katherine Bicknell is an international flautist of “sumptuous tone” (The Straits Times, Singapore) and “striking musical ability” (musicweb).
As a freelance flute and piccolo player Katherine has a busy schedule of guest appearances, frequently as principal, with many major orchestras such as the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Concert Orchestra, the Aurora Orchestra, the Royal Northern Sinfonia and the RTE Concert Orchestra. She has performed in the major UK concert halls and abroad including the Albert Hall, the Festival Hall, Symphony Hall Birmingham, the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam and the Lincoln Centre, New York. She plays frequently in major festivals such as Glyndebourne and the BBC Proms. In a role that gave her much personal satisfaction, Katherine was Principal Flute with the Symphony Orchestra of India for 16 seasons, also designing and leading the first education outreach work with the orchestra. In 2018 she was invited back to perform with the SOI as a soloist in Mozart’s flute and harp concerto.
Katherine has recorded with Sony, Hyperion, EMI and the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s own label. She has been invited specifically to record by conductors and composers, for example, by Gabriel Jackson on the acclaimed recording of ‘Not No Faceless Angel’.
Katherine has taught and coached young flautists for many years, her students having won places in the major conservatoires, principal positions with The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, The European Youth Orchestra and having achieved success in competitions, such as BBC Young Musician. She was a member of the teaching staff of the Royal College of Music Junior Department from 2006 to 2013, has been a frequent participant in the education programmes of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and in outreach programmes in the UK and India. Katherine has adjudicated to Masters level and continues to teach high calibre private students.
As well as the orchestral repertoire, Katherine plays chamber music whenever her schedule allows. She has a long standing musical relationship with renowned harpist Keziah Thomas and is currently working on a project to create a new, world-class wind ensemble in conjunction with the many outstanding musicians with whom she has worked over the past twenty years.
Wissam Boustany
Born in 1960, Wissam Boustany’s career as a soloist and teacher has taken him to South and North America, Europe Middle and Far East. In 1995 Wissam founded Towards Humanity, an initiative using music as a catalyst to support humanitarian projects on an international scale. Born in Lebanon, Boustany began his musical studies with his stepfather. In 1977 he moved to Britain where he studied at Chetham’s School of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music, with Trevor Wye. He has received many awards, notably the Silver Medal in the 1982 Madeira International Flute Competition and (in the same year) the woodwind prize in the Royal Overseas League Competition. He received the silver medal in the Shell/LSO competition and won the 2nd prize in the woodwind section of the first BBC Young Musician of the Year (1978).
In 1997 he was awarded a knighthood in Lebanon (Chevalier de l’Ordre du Cedre) in recognition of his music and peace work. On 3rd February 1998 he was presented with the Crystal Award at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.
Recently, Wissam has taken an interest in conducting and has launched the Pro Youth Philharmonia in 2018, a training orchestra for emerging musicians.
Sarah Brennan
Sarah Brennan was born in Hertfordshire and began learning the piano from a young age and later, at the age of 11, she started the flute. In 2007 Sarah gained a place at Birmingham Conservatoire to study flute performance where she learnt with Judith Hall. It was a passion for orchestral playing that led Sarah to follow her undergraduate degree with a Masters degree at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London. Here, Sarah won the Leverhulme Orchestral Scholarship to study under the tutelage of Anna Noakes.
Since finishing her performance degrees, Sarah’s passion has turned to teaching and music education. Sarah is an ABRSM Examiner, which has taken her across the world as well as the UK. She is a featured teacher for ABRSM’s “Teaching Notes Live” initiative for which she has recorded videos on different elements of the flute syllabus aimed at helping other teachers with problem areas. She is teacher of flute at three independent schools in the South East of England; Felsted School in Essex, St Albans School in Hertfordshire and Southbank International School in London. She teaches across all ages at these schools and runs flute groups and ensembles as well as teaching theory, aural skills and piano when required.
Rachel Brown
Performing on a huge range of flutes and recorders, Rachel Brown has appeared as a soloist in Europe, Japan and North and South America with a comprehensive concerto repertoire from J.S. Bach, to Mozart. Her championing of the works of the Berlin School has reawakened interest in the largely unknown masterpieces by Quantz and her recording of the CPE Bach D minor concerto was voted best by Polish radio. She has recorded Bach’s B minor Suite twice, and her rendering of Handel’s chamber music has been described as ‘perfection itself’. Her recordings of Bach Flute Sonatas and Mozart Flute Quartets are soon to be followed by a disc of Vivaldi Concertos & Arias.
A dedicated teacher and professor of historical flute at the RCM, Rachel has given masterclasses worldwide. She is author of The Early Flute, a practical guide (CUP) and has composed cadenzas for the new Bärenreiter edition of the Mozart Flute Concertos. A practice manual for the baroque flute is in preparation alongside a book on baroque dance for musicians, which is the fruit of her extensive collaboration with dancer Mary Collins.
Katherine Bryan
Katherine Bryan made her concerto debut at the age of 15 with the orchestra of the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. She has since performed as soloist with orchestras around the world.
Katherine's debut solo recording of concertos was released to great acclaim in 2010. She was nominated for an International Classical Music Award in 2011. Further to this success, Katherine recorded another disc of concertos, which includes the first British recording of the concerto by Christopher Rouse. Her third album, 'Silver Bow', a collection of violin transcriptions for flute and orchestra, was released in September 2015. Her latest recording of Opera transcriptions ‘Silver Voice’, recorded for Chandos Records, was released in 2017.
Katherine won a full scholarship to study flute at the Juilliard School, New York. She was also a prize winner at the Royal Overseas League Competition in London, the Young Concert Artists Competition in New York and was a finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year for three consecutive competitions. She was awarded the Julius Isserlis Scholarship by the Royal Philharmonic Society.
Katherine is Principal Flautist with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, a position she has held since she was just 21. She has played as Guest Principal flute with orchestras throughout the UK and across the world. She is in great demand as a teacher, and tutors for both the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland and Great Britain, as well as running her own International Flute Course. Katherine has performed live on BBC Radio 3, Classic FM and BBC television. In 2019, she was named by the BBC Music Magazine as one of the top 6 international flute players of all time.
Stephen Clark
Stephen Clark enjoys a busy international career having given recital and concerto performances in 127 countries. A winner of several international competitions, he studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Royal Northern College of Music and in Switzerland and America with Sir James Galway. He made his New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall in 2018. As an orchestral player, he has worked as Guest Principal flute with orchestras in the United Kingdom, USA, Spain and Vietnam.
In great demand as a teacher, Stephen has given masterclasses and workshops for flute players around the world. He has released 2 solo albums and in 2015, was accepted into the Recording Academy of America. Stephen is a Yamaha Artist.
Holly Cook
Holly Cook is a versatile performer and educator. Currently working as flautist and singer in Cirque du Soleil’s production Totem, she has performed at the Royal Albert Hall and toured Europe with the company. Holly has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company (Barbican and Stratford-upon-Avon), at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, and is a deputy for Disney’s The Lion King (Westend). She recorded flutes for the soundtrack of Joanna Lumley’s Silk Road Adventure (ITV, 2018), and Dark Mon£y (BBC, 2019), has recorded on albums with Katie Melua, Laura Mvula and Stacey Kent, and has performed on BBC Radio 3.
Holly has given recitals at the Royal Opera House, Wigmore Hall and St Martin-in-the-Fields, and has performed and done outreach work for Concordia Foundation, Making Music Concert Promoters’ Group and Music in Hospitals. She has given classes at Trinity Laban and the Purcell School, and has assisted on Anna Noakes’ flute summer school A Breath of Fresh Air. Holly has regularly worked as a deputy flute teacher at the Junior department of Trinity Laban, and enjoyed working as the Junior Tutor at Flute School London (2017/2018).
Holly was awarded an Emerging Excellence Award from Help Musicians UK, and was the Richard Carne Junior Fellow at Trinity Laban (2011 – 2012), where she also graduated with an MMus, studying with Anna Noakes and supported by a Leverhulme scholarship.
Michael Cox
Michael Cox is one of Britain’s best known flautists. He is principal flute of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and the London Sinfonietta, professor of flute at the Royal Academy of Music and artistic director of the flute website “Principal Chairs” for whom he has recorded and discussed all main orchestral solos. As a soloist he has appeared many times in the BBC Proms, in the main London halls and, further afield, in all continents.
Having previously held principal flute tenures with the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Mozart Players and the Britten Sinfonia, Michael Cox now relishes the wonderful variety of belonging to symphony, chamber orchestra & avant garde ensembles of international renown in combination with travelling as a soloist and teacher. Recent highlights as a soloist include the posthumous world premiere of a work for alto flute, mezzo soprano and orchestra by John Tavener in the Royal Albert Hall, the UK premiere of a concerto by Finnish composer Lotta Wennakoski, the world premiere of a piccolo concerto written for him by Simon Holt, three tours to Australia and a tour & recordings in the USA of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto 4 & 5 alongside the legendary pianist Murray Perahia.
Michael Cox’s commitment to new music has led him to work directly with UK composers such as Tippett, Maxwell Davies, Birtwistle, Knussen, Benjamin, Ades and Turnage in addition to composers such as Messian, Berio, Boulez, Lutoslawski, Stockhausen, Dutilleux, Takemitsu, Reich and Adams. Equally devoted to his teaching, recent graduates from Michael Cox’s flute class at the Royal Academy of Music have included Adam Walker and Alexandra Jakeman (principal and second flute -London Symphony Orchestra), Joshua Batty and Claire Wickes (principals of the RTE concert orchestra and English National Opera), Amy Yule and Sarah Bennett (the new principal of the Royal Northern Sinfonia and second of the Halle Orchestra respectively).
Michael Cox has recorded (Naxos, Sony, Hyperion, Nimbus) and broadcast widely and is an international artist for Altus Flutes. This year he has toured in Europe, USA, the Middle East, Far East and Australia but he is equally happy at home in the hilltop village near Oxford where he lives.
Gareth Davies
Gareth Davies is one of the flautists of his generation. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Shortly after graduating, he was appointed Principal flute in the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra at the age of 23. During his time on the south coast, he recorded the Nielsen concerto with the orchestra.
In 2000, Gareth was invited to become Principal flute with the London Symphony Orchestra where he has remained ever since. During his time there, he has played and recorded with many of the great conductors including Gergiev, Sir Colin Davis, Haitink, Previn, Jansons, Rostropovich and Boulez. A recording of a concerto by Karl Jenkins, written especially for him is available on EMI. He can be heard on many LSO Live recordings including Daphnis and Chloe and Prelude a l’apres midi conducted by Valery Gergiev, as well as many film soundtracks including Star Wars, Harry Potter, Rise of the Guardians and the Twilight saga.
Read more: garethdaviesonline.com
Philippa Davies
Philippa Davies has been noted for an ‘almost electrical response to technique’ -a ‘first-rate virtuoso,’ with ‘exceptional eloquence’.
Originally Principal Flute of the National Youth Orchestra of GB, Philippa went on to train at the Royal College of Music with Douglas Whittaker and later William Bennett and won many awards including the Tagore Gold Medal Prize, the National Federation of Music Societies award, the Mozart Memorial Prize and was a Park Lane Group Young Artist. She was the flute player with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s ensemble Fires of London, and Capricorn and Albion ,as well as principal flute in Kent Opera and London Mozart Players.
With her groups the Nash Ensemble and London Winds, duo with Jan Willem Nelleke( piano) Maggie Cole)( harpsichord) she plays in many international festivals and gives masterclasses.
She has performed concertos with the New Stockholm Chamber Orchestra, the BBC Symphony, the BBC Philharmonic and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the English Chamber Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia and the London Mozart Players.
Since her Mozart’s D major concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms in 1988 she has become a popular BBC Proms artist..
She regularly plays guest principal flute with all the main London orchestras and has made numerous recordings; Mozart’s entire original concertos and quartets ,Bach's Flute Sonatas,Romance of the Flute and Harp Poulenc’s Flute Sonata William Alwyn’s flute music
Philippa is a Professor at the Guildhall School of Music and each summer runs her own highly regarded International course in Cubertou , France.
Sarah Desbruslais
Sarah Desbruslais is a popular & sought after teacher and performer, based in London. Sarah brings all her energy and passion into her teaching and insists on getting the best from each student in a supportive environment.
Sarah has taken flute choirs to a variety of public performances including Euro Disney. She has tutored at many flute summer schools and courses and teaches in a variety of institutions, including the Blackheath Conservatoire, which is one of the oldest surviving purpose built Arts complexes in London. Sarah has studied both with Karen Jones and also with Anna Noakes and Alan Baker at Trinity College.
As a performer, Sarah is in high demand as a soloist, recording artist, orchestral and chamber musician. Sarah has performed in all of the major London concert venues and particularly enjoys collaborating with composers, of which she has given several world premier performances. These include works by Geoffrey Hanson, Cyril Schurch and Phillip Sawyers. Sarah has recently recorded Rob Keeley’s Concerto for flute and orchestra with Toccata Classics, due to be released later this year.
Cobus Du Toit
South African native, Dr. Cobus du Toit is the Assistant Professor of Flute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. As an international soloist Cobus has concertized in Russia, Taiwan, Japan, Germany, and France. Pretoria News declared: “du Toit makes you believe the impossible. With du Toit in flight one is never aware of technique alone. He is driven by purely musical inspiration.”
As a concerto soloist, Mr. du Toit has performed with orchestras around the globe. Prominent appearances include the KwaZulu Natal Philharmonic, International Symphony Orchestra “Taurida” (St. Petersburg, Russia), Boulder Philharmonic, Johannesburg Festival Orchestra and Boulder Chamber Orchestra. Du Toit is also the principal flute for Boulder Chamber Orchestra.
Cobus received his Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a Bachelor of Music from the University of Pretoria. His principal teachers include John Hinch and Christina Jennings. He represents the Wm. S. Haynes flute company as an Artist and Ambassador Clinician.
For more information visit www.cobusdutoit.com
Nicole Esposito
A charismatic and versatile flutist, Nicole Esposito is the flute professor and head of the woodwind area at The University of Iowa School of Music where she is the recent recipient of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Collegiate Teaching Award.
She has achieved a career as a soloist, teacher, chamber and orchestral musician on an international level having been featured across the United States, Europe, Central and South America and Asia. In addition to her teaching position at The University of Iowa, Professor Esposito has served on the faculties of the Interlochen Arts Camp, the University of Wisconsin-Platteville and held guest teaching residencies at the University of Michigan and West Virginia University. She has given numerous master classes at prestigious universities and conservatories in the United States and abroad including the Geneva Conservatory, Royal Danish Academy, Madrid Royal Conservatory, Mannheim Hochshule, Rice University, Peabody Conservatory and many others. Professor Esposito holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Michigan.
She has published articles on Banddirector.com, The Flutist Quarterly, Flute Focus and Flute Talk Magazines and can be heard on the Albany Records, MSR Classics and Con Brio Recordings labels. Her primary flute teachers include Jeanne Baxtresser, Amy Porter, Marianne Gedigian, Jennifer Steele, and Catherine Payne, with additional study with Mark Sparks, Alberto Almarza, and Doriot Anthony Dwyer. Nicole Esposito performs on the 14k Miyazawa flute and the Hammig Piccolo, Mancke Headjoints and is an endorser of the LefreQue sound bridges for wind instruments.
Andy Findon
Andy Findon is Europe's most recorded flute player who can be heard on countless movie and TV soundtracks, alongside albums for a long list of international artists.
Formative influences were gained working for well known British Dance Band leaders Joe Loss, Nat Temple, Eric Delaney and Sidney Lipton whilst and shortly after studying at the Royal College of Music, following membership (as principal flute) of The National Youth Orchestra. He was also a founder member of the Myrha Saxophone Quartet with John Harle in the late seventies.
Andy is the longest serving member of The Michael Nyman Band, playing baritone sax and flutes on Michael's soundtracks and concert tours since the early 1980's. He is in the iconic, award winning "folk-rock" band "The Home Service" and the legendary seventies "medieval prog-rock" group "Gryphon".
Although training originally as a classical flautist, his career diversified, covering almost every musical genre, duetting with Pat Metheny and playing with artists such as Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell, Tony Bennett, Cilla Black, The Beach Boys and Katherine Jenkins among many others.
In 1998 Andy performed on tin whistle live in the interval act at the Eurovision Song Contest in Birmingham and was Mike Oldfield's recorder player at the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony.
Notable among the hundreds of film scores he's played on are movies in the Bond, Lord Of The Rings, Star Wars and Harry Potter series, as well as the soundtracks of musicals, including Phantom Of The Opera, Sweeney Todd, Cats, Evita and Mama Mia.
Andy is also known as London's foremost "ethnic" instrumentalist. He has contributed extensively to the “Spitfire” sample library with work on both orchestral and ethnic instruments, including the release of the “Andy's Kitbag” series. As a composer, he has produced and performed hundreds of music "library" tracks which are played across the media regularly. His own releases include groundbreaking and innovative premieres, including his own arrangements of work by composers such as Michael Nyman and compositions by iconic jazz pianist and composer Geoff Eales.
Andy is a "Pearl Flûtes International Artist”
www.andyfindon.com
Simon Gilliver
Simon Gilliver read music at the University of Birmingham and later gained a Master’s Degree from Guildhall School of Music and Drama, specializing in the flute. His teachers have included Philippa Davies, Ian Clarke and Sarah Newbold.
Simon has since developed a widely varied career as a performer and teacher, both as a flautist and pianist. He won the Albert Cooper International Flute Competition in 2006, and was co-principal flute with Southbank Sinfonia in 2008. He is currently Principal Flute with Covent Garden Sinfonia, Bridgewater Sinfonia and Bishop’s Stortford Sinfonia, where he is also Artistic Director. Other recent engagements include work with the BBC Concert Orchestra, Oxford Philomusica and Bath Philharmonia, and work for the National Theatre.
Simon was a founder member of Prima Volta, a group devoted to classical improvisation. Improvisation is a key strand of Simon’s work, and he teaches this at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Simon has been the course pianist for Flute School London ever since the course was founded, where he has had the privilege of accompanying many of our wonderful guest artists in recital! Elsewhere he is in constant demand as an exam, diploma and competition accompanist, and appears regularly as a duo recitalist.
Emma Halnan
Emma Halnan first came to prominence as woodwind category winner of BBC Young Musician 2010. She has since appeared at major venues worldwide, and has performed concertos with orchestras such as the London Mozart Players and the European Union Chamber Orchestra. Other competition successes include the Sussex Prize for Woodwind in the Royal Overseas League Competition 2019 and first prize in the Sir Karl Jenkins/Arts Club Award 2016. Emma was been selected as a “Making Music” Young Artist 2018-20, and is a City Music Foundation Artist. Emma was principal flute of the European Union Youth Orchestra 2014-16. She has also freelanced with orchestras including the London Mozart Players, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, English National Opera and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
Emma is a highly reputed and very dedicated teacher. She teaches privately, for the University of Cambridge, and at Trinity Laban Conservatoire. Her pupils have gained places in national ensembles and at various conservatoires (both junior and senior departments).
Emma studied at the Royal Academy of Music with William Bennett and Kate Hill, and afterwards with Robert Winn. She previously studied at the Purcell School with Anna Pope.
For more info please visit www.emmahalnan.co.uk
Christine Hankin
After gaining a music degree from Sheffield University, Chris Hankin attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she had lessons from William Bennett. She then continued her flute studies with Jonathan Snowden and now has a very varied and successful freelance career.
As a soloist she now gives recitals with the versatile pianist and composer Timothy Murray. The focus is on the lesser-known aspects of the flute repertoire and the release of their CD “The Feminine Flute" featuring the works of twentieth century women composers has been extremely well received.
As an orchestral player Chris is much in demand. She is sub-principal flute with the highly acclaimed London Chamber Orchestra, holds the same position with the Orchestra of St Johns and spent four years working in Cardiff with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. She is also very happy working in West End theatre. Clocking up a total so far of over a dozen shows, including Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables, her experience is highly prized.
Chris is also a very experienced teacher. She currently holds positions at the London College of Music and Brunel University and she is the specialist flute advisor to the Central Band of the RAF. She is an experienced teacher of adults and is in charge of Ealing Flutes, an adult flute ensemble which meets once a month. This is a mixed ability group which gives an annual stress-free concert and has a lot of fun!
Chris is currently a diploma examiner for ABRSM and a highly respected adjudicator at Music Festivals around the country. She is also the Catalogue Editor for Just Flutes, where her assessments of flute publications are read worldwide.
Camilla Hoitenga
As Tim Page wrote in the New York Times, “Miss Hoitenga plays impeccably, produces a full, warm tone from her instrument...the most exciting program of new music this listener has heard so far this year…”
Most known for her work with composer Kaija Saariaho, Camilla's repertoire ranges from pre-Bach to post-Stockhausen, from music for flute alone to modern opera. Working with conductors like Susanna Mälkki, Alan Gilbert and Vladimir Jurowski in concert halls and festivals all over the world, Camilla has performed concertos written for her by composers such as Kaija Saariaho, Péter Köszeghy, or Alex Nante. Her recordings, most recently a special BLU-Ray + CD with Kaija Saariaho and composer/video-artist Jean-Baptiste Barrière, have won awards in France, Great Britain and North America.
For her rich and eclectic career, international flute soloist Camilla Hoitenga thanks many people: not only her flute teachers Julius Baker, Darlene Dugan, Peter Lloyd, Alexander Murray and Marcel Moyse, but also her professors at Calvin College (B.A.) for her liberal arts education (yes, including philosophy, biology, literature, art history and the like) and at the University of Illinois ( M.Mus., D.M.A.) for introducing her to musicology, ethnomusicology and Baroque & avant garde performance practice.
Increasingly in demand as a coach for both performers and composers, Camilla is eager to pass on what she's absorbed from all these experiences and enjoys teaching masterclasses and workshops on various subjects for musicians and audiences of all ages
Clare Jefferis
Clare Jefferis enjoys a varied musical career, playing regularly with leading UK orchestras including: English National Opera, BBC Concert Orchestra, Royal Opera House Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, amongst others.
A lover of musical theatre, she has been seat-holder on shows including The King and I (UK Tour 2019-2020), Wicked (UK Tour 2018-2019), Oliver! (UK Tour 2011-2013) and works as a deputy player at Les Miserables (London West End and UK Tour). She is currently working on the Phantom of the Opera UK Tour.
A committed teacher, Clare has given masterclasses for: Trinity Laban, Hong Kong Flute Academy, ENO Baylis, Harrogate Flute Kitchen and Flutewise. Orchestral coaching includes: National Schools Symphony Orchestra, Junior RCM Symphony Orchestra and Sinfonia.
Originally from Oldham, Clare began learning the flute aged 10. She was a member of the National Youth Orchestra before being awarded a Foundation Scholarship to study at at the Royal College of Music with Paul Edmund-Davies and Jaime Martin. She was very generously supported by the Solti Foundation, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Musician’s Benevolent Fund and John Lewis plc.
Gina Luciani
Flutist Gina Luciani has a diverse career in music that includes recording for top film and television soundtracks and main stage live performances. She was a member of the band for Kanye West's Sunday Service including the Coachella Music Festival show. She has performed alongside legendary artists such as Ariana Grande, Billy Idol, Chance The Rapper, DMX, Hanson, Hans Zimmer, John Williams, Josh Groban, Michael Giacchino, Pentatonix, Ty Dolla $ign and ”Weird Al" Yankovic.
Gina has recorded on many projects including Emmy-nominated soundtracks Planet Earth II, Chef’s Table and Penny Dreadful. She was the flute soloist on Locke & Key, Maniac, League of Legends, and Cobra Kai. Her other credits include Lady And The Tramp, The Simpsons, The Nun, Straight Outta Compton, The Romanoffs, The Voice, Under the Silver Lake, The Middle and Halo Wars 2. She performed with the Wu-Tang Clan at the Coachella Music Festival and was the featured flute soloist on "Land Down Under" with Colin Hay of Men At Work for ABC’s nationally televised Greatest Hits.
Gina received her B.M. Degree in Flute Performance from the Colburn Conservatory of Music and her M.M. Degree from USC, both under the instruction of Jim Walker. She travels to top schools and universities throughout the country including Berklee School of Music, Colburn Conservatory of Music, Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, Orange County School of the Arts, University of California Irvine, and University of Southern California as well as the NPR radio program, From The Top. She is on the Alumni Advisory Council for USC's Thornton School of Music and has served on the Board of Governors for the University while being nominated to the Executive Committee as the Co-Chair for Student Outreach. Gina is a Global Ambassador and International Artist for Trevor James Flutes.
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Pasha Mansurov
Pasha (Pavel) Mansurov was born in Russia and started playing flute at the age of 6. He moved to the United States of America where he studied with Dr. Bradley Garner of The Juilliard School for the majority of his early teenage years. He then moved to the UK and attended the Purcell School of Music with full scholarship where he studied with Clare Southworth. Later he won an audition to The Royal Academy of Music, where he studied with Kate Hill and Michael Cox on Flute and Pat Morris on Piccolo and he graduated with one of the highest mark in the woodwind class. For his Masters he moved to the Guildhall School of Music Drama, where he studied with Ian Clarke, Phillippa Davies and Sarah Newbald.
His Recordings include motion picture "The Master” and “Alien: Covenant” as well as Audio Sample Libraries for Spitfire Audio. He also appears on Rick : Wakeman’s "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" re-release in 2014. Chamber music appearances include guest player with the Fugata Quintet and the Mercury Quartet. Pasha is a full time member of the London Contemporary Orchestra Soloists.
As an orchestral musician he has played with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestral, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, London Mozart Players, Academy of St-Martin-in-the-Fileds, London Sinfonietta, London Symphony Orchestra and toured the far east with the Symphony Orchestra of India.
Eliza Marshall
Eliza has toured extensively with her array of flutes and whistles, in venues as varied as Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Berlin’s O2 and The Royal Albert Hall. She has carved a niche for herself as a cross-genre player, incorporating her passion for classical, folk and world music. She performs with leading UK orchestras, recording on film-soundtracks and albums, touring with her band Ranagri and on her current chair at The Lyceum Theatre for The Lion King.
Commercial work includes solo and ethnic flutes for films such as Robin Hood, Prometheus, Kung Fu Panda and The Great Gatsby. Performances with Peter Gabriel and his New Blood Orchestra have taken Eliza all over Europe, North and South America, and tours with sarod guru Amjad Ali Khan and Britten Sinfonia have seen her play throughout India.
Featuring her unique Indian bansuri playing, she appeared in 2014 for the World Premiere of Joby Talbot's ballet ‘The Winter's Tale’, as onstage soloist at The Royal Opera House. The production travelled to Brisbane in 2017 with The Queensland Symphony Orchestra and received 5* reviews from all major critics.
Eliza founded alt-folk band Ranagri who have recorded five acclaimed albums with Stockfisch and Wrasse Labels, performed at major folk festivals and on national radio stations all over the UK. Eliza has given workshops and masterclasses at RAM for the BFS, Trinity Laban, Birmingham Conservatoire, and festivals including Gate To Southwell and The Big Whistle. She coached for years on Fantasia Music Courses, and on NSSO in 2019.
Gareth McLearnon
Gareth McLearnon is an internationally renowned and multi-award-winning flute soloist, recording artist and chamber musician as well as a sought-after educator, and prolific composer and arranger.
He has given hundreds of masterclasses for thousands of flutists all over the world including at such prestigious institutions as Yale University; Manhattan School of Music, Vienna University for Music & Performing Arts, Guildhall School of Music & Drama; the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing; The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland; The Norwegian Academy of Music; Swedish Royal College of Music; Royal Danish Academy of Music; Gnessin School and Academy in Moscow, and he has been a tutor for the Yuri Bashmet Academies in Russia since 2013.
Gareth has been principal flute of The Heritage Orchestra since 2009 - playing concerts all over the UK, Europe & The Middle East. As a composer and arranger, his settings for flute & piano and flute ensemble alongside his numerous original works for flute, and flute ensemble are regularly performed all over the world.
Gareth is European Artist-in-Residence for the Wm. S. Haynes Co. and a Haynes Artist - playing on one of their finest custom made solid 14K gold flutes.
For more information please visit www.garethmclearnon.com
Ian Mullin
Ian won a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music under the tutelage of Sebastian Bell and Jaime Martin. Whilst at college he played Principal flute & piccolo with European Union Youth Orchestra and made his professional debut with Chamber Orchestra of Europe in 2000.
Since leaving college Ian has performed as guest Principal Flute with many of the UK’s leading orchestras including London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Mozart Players, English National Opera, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra & BBC National Orchestra of Wales to name but a few…
He has also recorded in Abbey Road studios with London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic and Philharmonia Orchestras on numerous occasions for TV and Film projects. 10 years ago he played as Principal Flute in four huge tours with Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra. Two were with Lucas Arts playing the Star Wars in Concert tour around USA, Canada & Europe and the others were recording and touring the Sting album Symphonicity, playing at such venues as Hollywood Bowl, Woodstock, New York Metroplitan Opera and Red Rock amongst many others venues.
Ian has achieved more than 500,000 hits with his short teaching videos on You Tube in collaboration with Trevor James Flute and his given master classes at Royal Academy of Music, Cheethams & Wells Cathedral Schools as well as extensively throughout the UK, USA and Japan. He is in great demand as an Orchestral player, Soloist, Teacher and Commercial Musician. In 2011 he was awarded an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM)
He also has a keen interest in martial arts and has trained in a few different styles, but achieved the rank of Shodan (Black Belt) in Danzun-Ryu Ju-jitsu in 2015 and is a Sensei helping to teach the class when he has time.
Lisa Nelsen
Described by The Times - London as “…a flautist and a half…”, Lisa Nelsen is internationally recognised for her versatility as a flute soloist, chamber and orchestral musician, educator and mentor in performance practices. She was recently appointed Chair of the British Flute Society. She grew up on a pig farm in Western Canada, and fed on all kinds of music, from opera to rock to jazz. She makes many venues her stage, and thrives on sharing the energy that performances can generate.
Her flute and harp duo with Eleanor Turner, Aquilae, has performed to packed audiences across the UK. She is a member of Continuum Ensemble in London, The Harborough Collective, a chamber ensemble led by internationally acclaimed violinist David Le Page, and joined forces with cellist Julian Metzger and pianist Paul Turner in Enigma14. Lisa has given concerts and masterclasses in venues across the UK, Irish Republic, Sweden, Austria, The Netherlands, Ireland, Canada, the United States, and Hong Kong. Her orchestral career began in The Netherlands playing piccolo with the Rotterdam Philharmonic, having trained with the National Youth Orchestras of The Netherlands and Canada. Since moving to the UK, she has premiered works written for her by Kenneth Hesketh, Arlene Sierra, Paul Max Edlin and Roderick Watkins, and appeared in first performances for Errollyn Wallen and Julian Anderson. She is a Professor at the Junior Department of the Guildhall School of Music, and is also teaching Oakham School and King Henry VIII, Coventry. Lisa was the Specialist Flute Tutor at Wells Cathedral School for 16 years, a coach for the National Youth Chamber Orchestra, National Schools Symphony Orchestra and the National Children’s Orchestra and a huge supporter of Flutewise. Lisa is an artist for Yamaha Classical Division International playing a 14k 900series flute.
www.lisanelsen.com
Anna Noakes
Anna Noakes has performed at the QEH, Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room as soloist, recitalist and chamber musician as well as at many of Britain’s most respected Festivals, such as Cheltenham, Brighton, Leicester, Salisbury, City of London and Dartington and her playing has inspired composers such as Simon Holt, Martin Yates, Cecilia McDowall, Elgar Howath, Dave Heath and Martin Butler to write for her. Anna has recorded numerous CD’s for Dutton, ASV, Naxos and Guild of both solo and chamber music, many of which have received Gramophone Magazine’s coveted “Critics Choice”.
Anna broadcasts for BBC Radio3 and Classic FM and works as Guest Principal Flute with the LPO, Philharmonia, RPO, the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House and ENO’s together with ECO, Northern Sinfonia, CLS, Locrian Ensemble and Britten Sinfonia. She is also in demand to record the music for Film and TV, scores that include, Kingsman, Golden Circle, James Bond, Lord of the Rings, Stardust, Hugo, Arthur, Chicken Run, Golden Compass, Black Swan, Narnia series, Harry Potter, Shrek, Da Vinci Code, Bridget Jones and Love Actually to name a few.
Professor of Flute at Trinity College of Music for seventeen years, Anna has given masterclasses for BFS, RAM, RNCM, GSMD, DIC Dublin, Cork School of Music and is currently the woodwind coach for both World Youth Orch, LSSO and Cambridge University.
Anna is a founder member of the South American Folk Ensemble ‘INCA’ and is Artistic Director of the Yoxford Arts Festival.
www.annanoakes.co.uk / www.yoxfest.co.uk / www.incamusic.co.uk
Niall O’Riordan
Described by critics as ‘dazzling’, ‘tonally ravishing and technically flawless’ (British Flute Society) Irish flutist Niall O’Riordan enjoys an international career as soloist and teacher. He has performed and taught throughout Europe, Canada, USA and South Arica. He began studies with Sir James Galway in 2011 and continues to be mentored by him. In 2014 he was awarded the Galway Festival rising star award and was presented with a 14k gold headjoint by Nagahara Flutes Boston.
Niall is internationally recognised for his completely holistic approach to flute playing and teaching. He is a certified Feldenkrais Method practitioner and uses the method to help musicians reach their potential by learning about their functioning and how to act efficiently. The method can be used to discover better posture, improve breathing and to reduce unhelpful tension. Niall works regularly musicians who suffer from discomfort or pain related to playing, and he has published two successful Feldenkrais audio learning programmes for flutists. He has a deep interest in spirituality, mysticism, hermeticism and the work of Carl Jung.
Instagram, Twitter @fluteonline
Carla Rees
Carla Rees is a British low flutes player, composer and arranger, working to raise the profile of her instruments through research, performance and, collaboration to create new repertoire. Her career as a performer incorporates chamber music, solo work, interdisciplinary collaboration, and recordings, including a discography of 19 CDs, and a current project to create contemporary repertoire for baroque flute. She has premiered several hundred works for low flutes, many of which are now published by her company Tetractys Publishing. She has over 80 published arrangements and compositions, including her 2016 work for solo piccolo, Nightsong, which has been performed in the UK, France, Germany, Poland, USA and Canada. She is Artistic Director of the contemporary chamber music ensemble rarescale, with whom she has performed in the UK and internationally and appeared on BBC Radio 3, and Director of its associated ensemble, rarescale Flute Academy. She has a PhD from the Royal College of Music in London, teaches the flute at Royal Holloway University of London and is BA (Hons) Music Programme Leader for the Open College of Arts. She has taught masterclasses and workshops for flute players and composers at some of the world’s leading institutions, including the Royal Academy of Music in London, the Juilliard School in New York and USC in Los Angeles.
Performances in 2019 include in Italy, Poland, the Netherlands, Costa Rica, Japan and Brazil, as well as at Café Oto, Iklectik and the Coronet Theatre in London, and the Sonic Arts Research Centre in Belfast. Carla plays Kingma System flutes, made for her by Eva Kingma, Bickford Brannen and Lev Levit. She is Editor of the British Flute Society’s magazine, PAN, and was previously the International Liaison Committee Chair for the National Flute Association of America.
Anna Stokes
Anna Stokes has worked with numerous orchestras including the London Philharmonic, RSNO, Northern Sinfonia, Britten Sinfonia, BBC Concert, London Concert and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
She released an album under Champs Hill Records entitled, 'Luminance' with flautist, Lisa Friend and pianist, Mark Kinkaid which was chosen as 'Classic FM Album of the Week’, David Mellor's Album of the Week (5 Star Review) in the 'Mail on Sunday' and aired on BBC Radio Stations, Classic FM and RTE Lyric FM.
Anna founded the Emanuel Ensemble in 2001 performing at the Purcell Room, Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall, National Gallery and various UK concert societies as well as recording a debut CD with the Emanuel Ensemble (Champs Hill Records).
She has given flute workshops in the UK, Hong Kong and Qatar as well as outreach projects for the LPO, RPO and Philharmonia. Anna also teaches both privately and for a London Preparatory school. She has also been a deputy flute teacher at the Royal College of Music Junior Department since 2007.
Anna studied with Anna Pope at the Purcell School of Music (1995-2000) and the Royal College of Music (2000-2004) with Susan Milan (flute) and with Stewart McLlwham (piccolo). Anna was selected to participate in the Sir James Galway International Masterclass, Switzerland 2006-2008 and was chosen as the first recipient of the Gold Nagahara Headjoint award in 2007.
Anna plays on a silver Powell Flute.
Alena Walentin
Alena Walentin is an Altus Artist and Vice-Chair of the British Flute Society. Alena is a very enthusiastic educator and teaches at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague, the Junior Royal Academy of Music, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and City, University of London.
She has also given masterclasses at the Verbier Festival Amateur Chamber Music Week in Switzerland, Ponte Cultura music course in France, ESMAE and Academia de Música de Vilar do Paraíso in Portugal, Singapore Flute Festival, William Bennett International Flute Summer School and Dartington Summer School & Festival.
Alena is also a member of the Atéa Quintet and regular guest with different ensembles including Ensemble Cymru and Ensemble 360.
Alena has appeared as a guest Principal flute with the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Opera North, the Philharmonia, Hallé, Britten Sinfonia, London Mozart Players, MusicAeterna, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Royal Northern Sinfonia and Orchestra of St John's.
Alena has also judged competitions in Italy, Russian Federation, Singapore, United Kingdom and the United States, including the National Flute Association’s Young Artist Competition, Singapore Festival Flute Competition and the British Flute Society’s competitions.
Jim Walker
Jim Walker, “Renaissance Man of the Flute”, is well-known in the flute world for his dynamic playing and versatility. He was principal flute of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for seven seasons, and the first-call studio flutist in L.A. for the better part of two decades. He is the founder of Free Flight (jazz-classical fusion), which made multiple appearances on the Tonight Show and Today Show, as well as a number one record (Slice of Life).
Currently, Jim is Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of Flute Studies at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music and Instructor of Flute and Chamber Music at the Colburn Conservatory of Music. Jim also teaches masterclasses throughout the world, including his very own “Beyond the Masterclass” every summer.
Ransom Wilson
Flutist/conductor Ransom Wilson has performed in concert with major orchestras the world over. As a flutist, he has recently launched an ongoing series of solo recordings on the Nimbus label in Europe. As a conductor, he is starting his third season as Music Director of the Redlands Symphony in Southern California, and he continues his positions with the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company and Le Train Bleu ensemble. He has led opera performances at the New York City Opera, and was for ten years an assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera. He has been a guest conductor of the London, Houston, KBS, Kraków, Denver, New Jersey, Hartford, and Berkeley symphonies; the Orchestra of St. Luke’s; the Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra; the Hallé Orchestra; and the chamber orchestras of St. Paul and Los Angeles. He has also appeared with the Glimmerglass Opera, Minnesota Opera, and the Opera of La Quinzena Musical in Spain.
As an educator, he regularly leads master classes at the Paris Conservatory, Juilliard School, Moscow Conservatory, Cambridge University, and others. A graduate of The Juilliard School, he was an Atlantique Foundation scholar in Paris, where he studied privately with Jean-Pierre Rampal. His recording career, which includes three Grammy Award nominations, began in 1973 with Jean-Pierre Rampal and I Solisti Veneti. Since then he has recorded over 35 albums as flutist and/or conductor.
Mr. Wilson is Professor of Flute at the Yale University School of Music, and has performed with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 1991.
2 Flute Loops
This partnership was dreamt up by best buddies Abbie Burrows and Clare Jefferis in 2016, when they had a collective desire to create online content to inspire and motivate their younger students.
They met over 20 years ago at the Royal College of Music and went on to work together, creating interactive concerts and workshops for organisations including: Live Music Now, Music in Hospitals and Care, and Reminiscence Learning. They share a love of teaching and have each given masterclasses and flute workshops all over the world, to a wide range of ages and levels. They have also taught in many eminent music institutions, including The Purcell School and the junior departments of Trinity Laban and Royal Academy of Music.
Abbie and Clare enjoy varied performing careers, working with leading UK symphony orchestras and chamber ensembles. They are huge fans of musical theatre and are lucky enough to be working simultaneously on the UK tours of Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera.
For more info visit www.2fluteloops.co.uk
Wm. S. Haynes Co.
The Wm. S. Haynes Company is the oldest continually manufacturing flute maker in the world. Established in 1888, the company makes the finest quality handmade flutes in silver, precious metal alloys and gold for some of the top performing artists and educators in the musical world. Their makers have trained for many years and bring together their collective expertise in creating some of the most exciting, beautiful, interesting, challenging and inspiring instruments made in the world today. Haynes is proud to fund dozens of masterclasses and educational events for flutists around the world each year, and we are delighted to sponsor the eFlute Festival appearance of Yale Professor Ransom Wilson, our European Artist-in-Residence Gareth McLearnon, and several sessions with our top makers who will open a door into their work of elite flute craftsmanship.
