Multi-Instrumentalist | Improviser | Early Music Specialist

The Work

I perform across centuries and genres. Baroque and renaissance flutes. Medieval bagpipes and pipe and tabor. Saxophone in jazz and contemporary contexts. 

Trained at Birmingham Conservatoire and Conservatorium van Amsterdam, and studying sitar for a year, singing in cathedral choirs, learning improvisation, and spending time with different instruments.

Improvisation and Organology

Improvisation is the centre of what I do. The moment when you stop reading and start responding.

I'm fascinated by organology, the study of how instruments are built and how that shapes the music we make with them. How would this piece sound on a different instrument? What does that tell you about the composer's choices? What happens when you treat a modern flute like it's a voice, or a recorder like it's a violin?

These aren't academic questions. They change how you play.

Voice and Resonance

The instrument is an extension of the voice. That's not a metaphor. Your sound comes from your body, your breath, your resonance. The instrument amplifies and shapes it, but the source is you.

I'm interested in that connection. In developing a personal sound that doesn't mimic anyone else. In the physicality of playing, the way posture and breathing and embouchure create or destroy tone. In working with the instrument, not against it.