CV

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Grade Exams

ABRSM Flute Grades 5-8

Distinction (Grade 8 – 140)

 

Academic Music Qualifications

ABRSM Grade 5 Music Theory - Distinction  2010

GCSE Music -  A*  2015

AS Music - A  2016

Gold Arts Award  2016

A2 Music - A  2017

ABRSM Teaching Diploma - Distinction 2019

 

Flute Courses

Flutewise Residential Course - Purcell School July 2009 & July 2010

Residential Flute Course - Croatia, August 2010 & August 2011

Oxford International Flute Summer School - Radley College, August 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016

 - Masterclass participant with Robert Manasse, Kate Hill, Katherine Kemler, Peter Verhoyen (piccolo)

The Hague - October 2015 - Study day and masterclass with Emily Beynon

Oxford - October 2016 - masterclass participant with Krzysztof Kaczka

 

 

Local Orchestras

Oxfordshire Schools' Orchestra 2009-2010

Oxfordshire Youth Windband   2010-2011

Oxfordshire Schools' Symphony Orchestra  2011-2012

 - concerts included: Symphony Hall, Birmingham

Oxfordshire Schools' Symphony Orchestra Touring 2011-2012

 - Tour to Germany

Oxfordshire County Youth Orchestra 2013 onwards

 - concerts included: Symphony Hall Birmingham, Dorchester Abbey

Oxfordshire County Youth Orchestra Touring 2013-2015

 - Tours to Germany and Poland

Cherwell School Concert Wind Band  2010 - 2013

Cherwell School Senior Orchestra  2010 onwards

Oxfordshire Festival Orchestra 2014 onwards

Ripieno Players, Oxford 2017

 

National Orchestras

National Children's U12 Orchestra   2010-2011

National Children's U13 Orchestra   2011-2012

 - concerts: The Anvil, Basingstoke; Leeds Town Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall, London

National Children's Main Orchestra     2012-2013

 - concerts: De Montfort Hall, Leicester; Barbican, London; Symphony Hall, Birmingham and The Royal Festival Hall, London.

National Children's ENCORE Orchestra 2014

National Children's Orchestra Easterlies Regional Orchestra 2010-2012

National Children's Orchestra London Regional Orchestra 2013

National Children's Orchestra London Senior and Junior Regional Orchestras 2014 – helper

National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain 2015-2016

 - concerts: Royal Festival Hall, Barbican Hall, Bridgewater Hall, Symphony Hall Birmingham, Leeds Town Hall, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, Snape Maltings and Royal Albert Hall BBC Prom

National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain 2016-2017

 - concerts: Symphony Hall Birmingham, Leeds Town Hall, Barbican Hall,  Royal Albert Hall BBC Prom

 

Royal College of Music

RCM Philharmonic, principal 2019

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Ensembles

Oxfordshire Youth Flute Choir 2010 onwards

Flute and violin duo

Flute, oboe and piano trio

 

Festivals

Oxford Music Festival

 - 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 won the Leon Goossens Cup for highest overall mark in all woodwind classes and played in final concert

 - 2015, 2017 won the Open Concerto Class

 

Abingdon Music Festival

 - 2012 & 2013 won woodwind class and played in final winners' concert

 

Competitions

 - 2013    British Flute Society School Performer Medal (Class A:  Grades 5-8)

 - 2014    Semi-finalist in Oxford Philharmonic’s Youth Concerto Competition

 - 2014    Won a place to be a Young Apprentice with Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra

 - 2016    Won a concerto competition with Burford Orchestra to play a flute concerto 

 - 2017    Won a place to be a Young Apprentice with Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra

 - 2017    Runner-up Oxford Philharmonic’s Youth Concerto Competition  

 

Concert solos / Recitals

 - 2014 & 2016     Churchill Hospital Lunchtime Recitals

 - November 2015    Holywell Music Room, Oxford

 - June 2016        St. Andrew’s Church, Oxford

 - September 2016    St. Anne’s College, Oxford

 - November 2016    Young Artist Platform, Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford

 - February 2017       Soloist in concerto competition in Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford

 

Composition

 - March 2010: 3 day workshop with Bob Chilcott and members of RPO to compose a short Requiem based on Bob Chilcott's "Requiem". Performance in Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford  March 2010

 - July 2010: workshop at Royal College of Music on improvisation and performance of ensemble piece on Radio 3 for BBC Proms season.

 - 2012 - 2017 Advanced Young Musician's Course run by St. Anne's College, Oxford, and Oxfordshire Music Service. Compositions performed in seminars.

 - 2016 Wrote duet for flute and viola- performed it on both instruments at a concert in Oxford (flute, pre-recorded)

 

Music School

Leverhulme Scholar at Aldeburgh Young Musicians 2013-2015  (Residential music school based at The Maltings, Snape, Suffolk - courses attended every school holiday and several weekends a year)

Performances:  

 - sang in Simon Wallfisch’s Choir at National Holocaust Day 70th Anniversary Remembrance Service 2015

 - played with Lokkhi Tera - Snape Proms  August 2015

 - played with Led Bib – London Jazz Festival  November 2015