Hello! I have a flute and I’m not afraid to use it! My flute and I have been working together all our working life, playing, teaching, workshop coaching and generally providing music and encouraging others to play. I’m classically-trained but have always found myself working in that exciting, vague and frankly sometimes quite murky area between classical at one end of the spectrum and jazz at the other. However… I’ve lately begun to realise there are a lot of jazz musicians about having a great time and I’m suspicious that in the last few years I’ve joined them.. which means that although I’m a quite well-seasoned and marinated performer I find myself bounding around having new adventures and learning on the job!
I bring my arsenal of flutes to performances : concert, alto and bass, which apart from giving me a range of timbres to play with also provides plenty of scope for plumbing and U-bend jokes…
I like to kickstart proceedings by dispelling any notion of the flute as a sweet and gentle instrument, although it can indeed be these things, and play with energy and spontaneity and go full-throttle when required!
Head on in if you’d like to find out more, hear some tunes and/or make a booking for your event or venue.