Lynne Bulmer - MA (Music), BMus (Hons), FRSM Performer & Teacher

Programme:

Sibelius - Violin Concerto

Brahms - Symphony no. 2

Programme:

Mar 2018       

  Participated in the Edinburgh University Composers' Orchestra concert 'Morricone & Cheese' in the Reid Concert Hall

Mar 2018       

Performance of 'Variation 5: Schools Composition Project & Performance' with members of Kirkcaldy Orchestral Society (conductor and musical director: John Gourlay).  Performance of compositions by school children in the area

Mar 2018       

Performance of  'Variation 4: Spring' with Kirkcaldy Orchestral Society (conductor: Graeme Wilson with John Wallace and Kate Cooper: trumpets) in the Old Kirk, Kirkcaldy.  Programme:  Smetana - Overture and Dances from The Bartered Bride, Fraser - Concerto for trumpet and orchestra, Thorpe Davie - Diversions on a Tune by Dr Arne, Sullivan arr. Mackerras - Pineapple Poll

Mar 2018       

Performance in the orchestra for Dunfermline Choral Union's Spring concert (conductor: Mandy Miller) in the Vine, Dunfermline. Programme: Paul Carr - Requiem for an Angel, Dan Forrest - Requiem for the Living (IUK Premiere)

Mar 2018        

Performance of  'Variation 4: Spring' with Kirkcaldy Orchestral Society (conductor: Graeme Wilson with John Wallace and Kate Cooper: trumpets) in the Queen Anne High School, Dunfermline at 7pm.  Programme:  Smetana - Overture and Dances from The Bartered Bride, Fraser - Concerto for trumpet and orchestra, Thorpe Davie - Diversions on a Tune by Dr Arne, Sullivan arr. Mackerras - Pineapple Poll  

Feb 2018        

Performance with Meadows Chamber Orchestra (conductor: Peter Evans, soloist: Raymond Yiu) for the Biggar Music Club in Biggar Municipal  Hall, Biggar.  Programme: Mozart - Overture: La Clemenza di Tito, Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor Op. 18, Beethoven - Symphony no. 3 in E flat major Op. 55 'Eroica'

Feb 2018        

Performance with Amicus Orchestra (conductor: Alec Frank-Gemmill, soloists: Alberto Menendez Escribano, Patrick Broderick, Harry Johnstone & Jamie Shield) in St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow.  Programme: Schumann - Overture, Scherzo & Finale, Schumann - Konzertstuck for four horns & orchestra, Beethoven - Symphony no. 8

Feb 2018        

Performance of 'Variation 3' with Kirkcaldy Orchestral Society as part of the Fife Festival of Music in the Adam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy. Programme:  Purcell arr. John Gourley - Rondeau from 'Abdelazer', Tchaikovsky - Russian Dance from the Nutcracker Suite, Rossini arr. Britten - March from 'Soirees Musicales', Rimsky-Korsakov - Dance of the Tumblers from 'The Snow Queen

Feb 2018        

Performance with Meadows Chamber Orchestra (conductor: Peter Evans, soloist: Raymond Yiu) in Inverleith St Serf's Church. Programme:  Mozart - Overture: La Clemenza di Tito, Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minore Op. 18, Beethoven - Symphony no. 3 in E flat major Op. 55 'Eroica'

Jan 2018        

Premiere of wind quintet by David Wilson for the Edinburgh Society of Musicians at Belford Road, Edinburgh (this concert also included music for string quartet, singer with piano accompaniment, string trio, solo violin and piano duet)

Dec 2017       

Two performances of 'Variation 2: Winter' with Kirkcaldy Orchestral Society (conductor: Graeme Wilson) and the Langtoun Singers (conductor: Ella Wilson) in the Old Kirk, Kirkcaldy.  Programme:  Tchaikovsky's Waltz of the Flowers and Russian Dance from the Nutcracker Suite, Fraser's The Snow Queen (narrator: Sandra Taylor), John Gourlay's Onze Noels apres Charpentier, Rimsky-Korsakov's Dance of the Tumblers and a selection of carols

Nov 2017        

Participation in 'You Can't Handel Our Music' - a concert of new music by the Composers' Orchestra in the Reid Concert Hall

Nov 2017        

   Four performances of Mozart's Magic Flute with Fife Opera (musical director: Alistair Digges) in the Adam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy

Oct 2017        

Participation in a concerto play-through evening with the Meadows Chamber Orchestra in Inverleith St Serf's Church, Edinburgh. Concertos played: Johann Nepomuk Hummel - Introduction and Variations in F Op 102 for oboe, Ferdinand David - Violin Concerto no. 5 Op 35 in D minor, Richard Strauss - Horn Concerto no. 1 Op 11 in E flat major

Oct 2017        

Performance of 'Variation 1: Autumn' with Kirkcaldy Orchestral Society (conductor: Graeme Wilson, soloist: Eilidh Randall) in the Old Kirk, Kirkcaldy.   Programme: Fraser - Overture, Bruch - Romanze for viola & orchestra, Dvorak - slow movement from New World symphony, Alwyn - Scottish Dances, Elgar - Theme and 3 variations, Maxwell Davies - Scottish Renaissance Dances, Copland - Hoe Down from Rodeo 

Aug 2017        

Performance of Madeleine Dring's Trio for flute, oboe & piano and 1st movement of Kenneth Leighton's Serenade for flute & piano in the final concert of Sherborne Summer School of Music's Piano Accompaniment course in Cheap St Church, Sherborne

Flautist-in-residence for the Piano Accompaniment course at the Sherborne Summer School of Music.  Works studied/performed:  Milhaud's Sonatine, Kenneth Leighton's Serenade, Madeleine Dring's Trio for flute, oboe & piano and Farrenc's Sextet Op. 40 for winds and piano

Jun 2017        

Performance with the Meadows Chamber Orchestra (conductor: Peter Evans, soloists: Peter Evans and Jack Westwell) in the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh.  Programme: Lyell Cresswell - Rev Norman McLeod's Dance, Mozart - Piano Concerto no. 23 in A major K488 (soloist: Peter Evans), Poulenc - Piano Concerto (soloist: Jack Westwell), Ravel - Suite 'Ma mere l'Oye' (Mother Goose)

May 2017           

   Performance in Dunbar Choral's 'Opera Gala' (conductor: Vaughan Townhill) in Dunbar Parish Church, Dunbar. Programme included choruses arias by Bizet, Borodin, Verdi, Mozart, Massenet, Puccini, Delibes and Mascagni

May 2017       

Performance of 'Forty Favourites: The Extra Bits' with the Kirkcaldy Orchestral Society (conductor: Graeme Wilson) in the Old Kirk, Kirkcaldy.  Programme included Mozart's Overture to the Marriage of Figaro, 1st movement of Schubert's Symphony no. 5 in B flat major, Peter Maxwell Davies's Renaissance Scottish  Dances and works by John Gourlay

Apr 2017        

   Solo flute and piano recital 'Spectrum: Music by Bach and Martinu' with Peter Churchill in St Giles' Cathedral as part of the 'St Giles @ Six' concert series. Programme: Sonata in A major BWV 1032 by J S Bach, 'Passacaille' by Rhene-Baton and Sonata for flute & piano by Martinu

Apr 2017        

Performance with members of the Kirkcaldy Orchestral Society in a programme of music by John Gourlay at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Ednburgh in connection with the Joan Eardley exhibition 'A Sense of Place'.  Programme: 'Five Joan Eardley Paintings', 'Lithograph'. 'Impasto' and 'Aquarelle'.

Mar 2017        

   Performance with the Meadows Chamber Orchestra (conductor & soloist: Peter Evans) at Beith Community Centre for Beith Arts. Programme: Mozart - Overture to La Clemenza di Tito, Mozart - Piano Concerto no. 23 in A major K488, Shostakovich (arr. Barshai) - Chamber Symphony, Dvorak - Czech Suite

Mar 2017        

Performance with members of Kirkcaldy Orchestral Society in the final concert of compositions by pupils of Beath High School, Cowdenbeath and St Columba's RC High School, Dunfermline as part of  Kirkcaldy Orchestral Society Composition Project (directed by John Gourlay) in Beath High School, Cowdenbeath

Mar 2017        

Two performance of 'Forty Favourites - The Main Bits' with Kirkcaldy Orchestral Society (conductor Graeme Wilson) in Dunfermline High School and the Old Kirk, Kirkcaldy.  Programme: Bernstein's Candide Overture and Divertimento for Orchestra, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue (soloist: Gregor Blamey), Peter Maxwell Davies's Orkney Wedding with Sunrise, Arnold's  English Dances Set 2, Hayman's Pop's Hoedown and John Gourlay's Fanfare & Fugato

Feb 2017         

    Six performances of the SAMS production of South Pacific (MD: Robert Nee) at the Byre Theatre, St Andrews

Feb 2017         

Performance in the Fife Festival of Music with Kirkcaldy Orchestral Society in the Adam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy.  Programme: excerpt from Mozart's Symphony no. 40, Humperdinck's Overture to Hansel & Gretel and John Gourlay's Fanfare and Fugato

Dec 2016        

Nov 2016         

Participated in the premiere of Matt Giannotti's 'Wind Gust 42058' in the Edinburgh College of Art at the opening of the University of Edinburgh's  Data-X Pioneering Research Data Exhibition

Nov 2016         

Performance with Amicus Orchestra (conductor: Jessica Cottis, soloist: Katherine Bryan) in St Andrew's in the Square, Glasgow   Programme: Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, Mendelssohn's violin concerto in  E minor (arr. for flute) and Schubert's symphony no. 2.  The Mendelssohn concerto was recorded for BBC Radio Scotland's 'Classics Unwrapped' and broadcast on Sunday 20th Nov 2016

Nov 2016         

   Four performances of Tchaikovsky's 'Eugene Onegin' with Fife Opera (musical director: Alistair Digges) in the Adam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy

Oct 2016

   Performance of 'Forty Favourites - Some Greatest Hits' featuring some of the BBC's 'Ten Pieces' with Kirkcaldy Orchestral Society (conductor: Graeme Wilson) at the Old Kirk, Kirkcaldy.  Programme included Beethoven's Egmont Overture and 5th Symphony (first movement), Bach's Toccata and Fugue (arr. orchestra), Mussorgsky's Night on Bare Mountain, extracts from Bizet's  Carmen / Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite and Offenbach's Overture to Orpheus in the Underworld

           Sep 2016              

   Performance with the Meadows Chamber Orchestra (conductor/soloist: Alec Frank-Gemmill) in Inverleith St Serf's Church, Edinburgh. Programme:  Neruda's Concertino for Horn & Orchestra in E flat, Haydn's Symphony no. 82 (Bear )  and  Mendelssohn's Symphony no. 3 (Scottish)

     

Aug 2016   

    Participation in the Rehearsal Orchestra's Edinburgh course (conductors: Levon Parikian and Robert Chasey).  Works rehearsed/performed in Open  Day rehearsal included Mahler's symphony no. 5, Janacek's Cunning Little Vixen Suite, Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs and John Adams's  Short Ride in a Fast Machine

Aug 2016          

Performance in final concert of the Piano Accompaniment course at the Sherborne Summer School of Music 

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Aug 2016          

   Flautist-in-residence for the Piano Accompaniment course at the Sherborne Summer School of Music.  Works for flute included J S Bach's Sonata in E flat major BWV 1031, Faure's Fantasie for Flute and Piano and Thuille's Sextet in B flat major Op. 6.

Jun 2016           

    Lunchtime recital with the Marlands Ensemble for the Scottish Arts Club, Edinburgh.  Programme  included works  for various wind/piano    combinations by  Mozart, Farkas, Paul Juon, Louise Farrenc, Arnold, Pleyel, Ippolitov-Ivanov and Ravel

Jun 2016            Performance with Meadows Chamber Orchestra (conductor: Peter Evans, soloists: Richard Beauchamp - piano, Uli Evans - 

                         violin) in Queen's Hall, Edinburgh.  Programme: Bartok - Divertimento for Strings, Liszt - Piano Concerto no. 1 in E flat

                         major, Dvorak - Romance in F minor for solo violin & orchestra Op. 11,  Dvorak - Czech Suite Op. 39

Jun 2016            Performance with Glasgow Chamber Orchestra (conductor: Peter Cynfryn Jones, soloist: Gongbo Jiang) in Bute Hall,

                         Glasgow.  Programme:- Shostakovich - Festive Overture, Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto, Shostakovich - Symphony no. 5

May 2016           Performance of J S Bach's St John Passion with Dunbar Choral (conductor: Vaughan Townhill, leader: Robert Dick) in Dunbar

                         Parish Church, Dunbar

Apr 2016            Performance of J S Bach's Magnificat with the Afton Ensemble & Stirling University Choir (conductor: Alistair Warwick,

                         leader: Mark Wilson) in the Church of the Holy Rude, Stirling

Mar 2016           Performance of 'Spring Excursions: Rugged Landscapes'  with the Kirkcaldy Orchestral Society in the Old Kirk, Kirkcaldy

                         Programme: - 'In the Steppes of Central Asia'- Borodin, Finlandia - Sibelius, Land of the Mountain and the Flood - McCunn, 

                         Scottish Dances - Arnold, L'Arlisienne Suite - Bizet, An American in Paris - Gershwin, selections from Phantom of the Opera -

Mar 2016           Performance of 'A Night at the Opera' with Dunfermline Choral Union (conductor: Mandy Miller with soloists Wilma 

                         MacDougall & Frances Macafferty) in The Vine Venue, Dunfermline.  Programme included choruses and arias by Bizet,

                         Borodin, Mascagni, Puccini, Grieg, Gershwin, Verdi and Wagner 

Mar 2016           Performance of 'Spring Excursions: Rugged Landscapes'  with the Kirkcaldy Orchestral Society in Dunfermline High School. 

                         Programme: - 'In the Steppes of Central Asia'- Borodin, Finlandia - Sibelius, Land of the Mountain and the Flood - McCunn, 

                         Scottish Dances - Arnold, L'Arlisienne Suite - Bizet, An American in Paris - Gershwin, selections from Phantom of the Opera - 

                         Lloyd Webber, American Glitz - Tom David Wilson

                            

       Dec 2015            Live broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland's 'Classics Unwrapped' presented by Jamie MacDougall, with Amicus Orchestra and 

                         Glasgow Chamber Choir (conductor: Michael Bawtree).  Extracts from Haydn's 'Creation' and Christmas carols.

Dec 2015            Two performances of 'Winter Wanderings' with Kirkcaldy Orchestral Society (conductor: Graeme Wilson) in the Old Kirk, 

                         Kirkcaldy.  Programme: 'Mapping the Music':  'Sleigh Ride - Delius, 'Paddington Bear's First Concert' - Herbert Chappell, 

                         'Overture on French Carols' - Philip Lane, 'Christmas Dance' - Eoin Hamilton, 'A Christmas Festival' - Leroy Anderson,

                         'Sleigh Ride' - Leroy Anderson

Nov 2015           Performance of 'Timepieces' with Marlands Ensemble (wind quintet) in St Giles' at Six concert series (St Giles' Cathedral, 

                         Edinburgh).  Programme: 'Early Hungarian Dances' by Ferenc Farkas, Carl Nielsen's Quintet Op. 43, 'Timepiece' by Lyle 

                         Sanford and 'Tico-Tico no Fuba' by Zequinha de Abreu

Nov 2015           Performance of Haydn's Creation with Amicus Orchestra & Glasgow Chamber Choir (cond. Michael Bawtree) in Glasgow 

                        University Memorial Chapel, Glasgow

Nov 2015           Four performances of Gounod's 'Faust' with Fife Opera (cond. Alistair Digges), Adam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy

Oct 2015            Performance with KOS in the Old Kirk, Kirkcaldy.  Programme included music by Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Sullivan,

                         Nicolai and Eoin Hamilton 

Sep/Oct 2015     Six performances of 'South Pacific' with GAMA in the Rothes Halls, Glenrothes

Aug 2015           Performance of Howard Ferguson's 'Three Sketches' and the Poulenc Sextet in Cheap Street Church, Sherborne

Jun 2015            'Eastern Promise' - performance with Alison Farshi (piano) as Duo Picante in St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh.  A programme

                         of music  from Eastern Europe: Amirov - Six Pieces, Enescu - Cantabile et Presto, Taktakishvili - Sonata for flute and piano

May 2015           Performance with Amicus Orchestra (conductor: Oliver Rundell, soloist: Martin Storey, principal cellist BBC SSO) in St

                         Andrew's in the Square, Glasgow.  Programme: Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin, Saint-Saens - Cello Concerto no. 1 in A 

                         minor, Poulenc - Sinfonietta

May 2015           Performance with the Meadows Chamber Orchestra (conductor: Peter Evans) in St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh. 

                         Programme: Debussy - Prelude to L'après-midi d'un faune, Saint-Saëns - Cello Concerto no. 2 in D minor Op. 119

                         (soloist: Robin Michael), Debussy/Beamish - Suite for cello and orchestra, Richard Michael - Meadows Suite for jazz piano

                         and orchestra (soloist: Richard Michael)  

May 2015           'Eastern Promise' - performance with Alison Farshi (piano) as Duo Picante in St Werburgh's Church, Chorlton - part of the 

                         Chorlton Arts Festival 2015.  Programme: Amirov - Six Pieces, Enescu - Cantabile et Presto and Taktakishvili - Sonata for

                         flute and piano

Apr 2015            Performance of J S Bach's Sonata in B minor BWV 1030 and Prokofiev's Sonata for flute and piano Op. 94 in St Giles' 

                         Cathedral, Edinburgh with Peter Churchill

Mar 2015           Performance with Kirkcaldy Orchestral Society in Dunfermline High School (charity event for Cancer Research).

                         Programme included  Shostakovich - Festive Overture,  Borodin - Overture to Prince Igor, Walton - Prelude & Fugue

                         'The Spitfire', Gourlay - Sir Patrick Spens and Ballad (featuring solo trombonist  Martha  Anne Brookes), selection from

                         Miss Saigon, Hamilton - Fife Volunteer March.

Mar 2015           Performance of R. Strauss's Suite in B flat major Op. 4 for 13 Wind Instruments with the winds of Amicus Orchestra in

                         the Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow  - tutor and conductor: Maximiliano Martin (principal clarinet : SCO)

Mar 2015           Performance in the orchestra for Dunfermline Choral Union's anniversary concert, including music by Handel, Verdi,

                         Puccini, Faure, Carr and Rutter

Feb 2015            Performance of Vaughan Williams' English Folk Song Suite and Hamilton's Fife Vounteers March in the Adam Smith

                         Theatre with the Kirkcaldy Orchestral Society

Jan 2105            Lunchtime recital of music for wind quintet with the Marlands Ensemble for the Scottish Arts Club, including works by

                         Agay, Ibert, Puccini and Jim Parker

Dec 2014           Two performances with Kirkcaldy Orchestral Society in the Old Kirk, Kirkcaldy - programme included Malcolm Arnold's

                         'Tam o' Shanter' and Vaughan Williams'  'English Folk Songs'

Nov 2014            Performance with Amicus Orchestra in St Andrew's in the Square, Glasgow (Robert Baxter conducting).  Programme: 

                         Weber's Oberon Overture, Mozart's Violin Concerto no. 4 in D (soloist: Gongbo Jiang) and Brahms' Symphony no. 4.

Nov 2014            Soloist in performance of Mozart's Flute Concerto in G major K 313 with Dunblane Chamber Orchestra (Mark Wilson 

                         conducting) in Dunblane High School.

Nov 2014            Four performances in Adam Smith Theatre of Bizet's 'Carmen' (fully staged) with Fife Opera (Alistair Digges

                         conducting)

Sep 2014            Joined committee for Amicus Orchestra       

Aug 2014            Two concert performances of Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte with Opera dei Lumi (Peter Keenan conducting) in the Guildhall,

                          Berwick upon Tweed and St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh

Aug 2014             Participation in the Rehearsal Orchestra's Edinburgh course with conductors Levon Parikian and Robert Chasey.  Works 

                          rehearsed/performed in Open Rehearsal included Beethoven's Symphony no. 4, Brahms's Symphony no. 4,

                          Tchaikovsky's Symphony no. 4, Prokofiev's Symphony no. 4, Schumann's Manfred Overture, Wagner's Lohengrin

                          Prelude, Dvorak's The Noonday Witch, Liadov's Baba Yaga, John Adams's Lollapalooza, Peter Maxwell Davies's

                          Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise, Stravinsky's La Baiser de la Fee divertimento and Panufnik's Procession for Peace

Aug 2014             Performance with Alison Farshi of Aria (2nd movement) from Sonata for flute & piano by Taktakishvili in Cheap Street

                           Church, Sherborne

Aug 2014             Flautist-in-residence for the piano accompaniment course at the Sherborne Summer School of Music

Jun 2014              Performance (Barber only) with New Edinburgh Orchestra in Inverleith St Serf's Church (Tim Paxton conducting). 

                           Programme: Samuel Barber's Second Essay for Orchestra, Beethoven's Piano Concerto no. 3 (soloist: Ancuta Nite) 

                           and Dvorak's Symphony no. 9 in E minor - 'From the New World'

Jun 2014              Performance with Amicus Orchestra (Christian Kluxen conducting) in St Andrew's in the Square, Glasgow.  Programme:

                           Stravinsky's Pulcinella Suite, Sibelius' Pelléas and Mélisande and Schubert's Symphony no. 5.

May 2014              'Duo Picante' (Lynne Bulmer - flute, Alison Farshi - piano) - lunchtime recital in St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh.

                           Programme: Bach's Sonata in E minor BWV 1034, Schumann's Drei Romanzen Op. 94 and Poulenc's Sonata for flute 

                           and piano

May 2014              'Duo Picante' (Lynne Bulmer - flute, Alison Farshi - piano) - lunchtime recital in St Werburgh's Church, Chorlton-cum-

                           Hardy as part of Chorlton Arts Festival, Manchester.  Programme: J S Bach's Sonata in E minor BWV 1034, Schumann's

                           Drei Romanzen Op. 94 and Poulenc's Sonata for flute and piano

May 2014              Performance as soloist in J S Bach's Brandenburg concerto no. 2 and Charpentier's Te Deum with the Dunbar & District 

                            Choral Society in Dunbar Parish Church (Vaughan Townhill conducting)

Mar 2014              Two performances with Kirkcaldy Orchestral Society in Kirkcaldy and Cupar.  Programme included the Overture to

                            Mozart's  The Magic Flute, excerpts from Delibes's Coppelia, excerpts from Les Miserables and A Man and a Brother-

                            a new work by John Gourlay with Eoghan McKenzie

Feb 2014               Performance in the Adam Smith Theatre with Kirkcaldy Orchestral Society in the Fife Festival of Music

Feb 2014               Performance of Kenneth Leighton's Serenade and Fauré's Fantasie with Alan Graham for Edinburgh Music Club 

Dec 2013             Two performances with Kirkcaldy Orchestral Society in the Old Kirk, Kirkcaldy of 'Winter Tales' - Humperdinck's  

                           Overture to Hansel and Gretel, Prokofiev's Winter Bonfire, movements from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite and 

                           Christmas Festival

Dec 2013              Performance with the Edinburgh Chamber Orchestra in their Christmas concert in Morningside United Church

Nov 2013              Performance on flute/piccolo with Amicus Orchestra (Gordon Bragg conducting) in Renfield St Stephen's Church,

                           Glasgow.  Programme included Prokofiev's Symphony no. 1 (Classical), Ravel's piano concerto in G (soloist - James

                           Willshire), Takemitsu's Requiem for Strings and the premiere of Tom Wilson's Latino Slow

Oct  2013              Performance of 1st movement of Muczynski's Sonata for Flute & Piano with Alison Farshi on piano for the Lancaster 

                            Music Makers in the chapel of the University of Cumbria, Lancaster

Oct  2013               Performance of Handel's Sonata in E minor HWV 359b for flute/basso continuo and Faure's Morceau de Concours

                            with Alan Graham on piano for the Edinburgh Music Club

Sep 2013               Performance of Wagner's 'Tristan und Isolde' with the Edinburgh Players Opera Group in Portobello Town Hall,

                             Edinburgh   

Aug 2013               Performance in Cheap Street Church, Sherborne as part of the Sherborne Summer School of Music.

Aug 2013               Flautist-in-residence at the the Sherborne Summer School of Music. 

Jun 2013                Solo flute & piano lunchtime recital 'East meets West' with Peter Churchill for the Scottish Arts Club, Rutland Square, 

                             Edinburgh.  Programme included: Amirov's 'Six Pieces', Bloch's 'Suite Modale', Roussel's 'Joueurs de Flutes' and J S Bach's 

                             Sonata in B minor BWV 1030

Jun 2013                Performance of Poulenc's Sextet Op. 100 (1939)  for the Edinburgh Music Club, Belford Road with the Marlands

                             Ensemble: Martin Davies (piano), Lynne Bulmer (flute), Caroline Snell (oboe), Carron Shankland (clarinet), Ruth Harris

                             (horn) and Rainer Thönnes (bassoon)

Jun 2013                Performance with the Milne Graden Chamber Orchestra (Peter and Edward Keenan conducting) in Paxton House,

                             Berwick upon Tweed:  Mozart's Overture to Don Giovanni K.527, Mozart's Violin Concerto no. 4 in D K.218 (soloist:

                             Colin Scobie), Beethoven's Symphony no. 6 in F Op. 68 (Pastoral)   

May 2013               Performance (flute and descant recorder) with Meadows Chamber Orchestra (Peter Whelan of the SCO conducting), in

                             Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh: Handel's Water Music Suites II and III.  Programme also included Handel's Arrival of the

                             Queen of Sheba, Concerto Grosso Op. 6 no. 1, Concerto Grosso Op. 3 no. 2 and J S Bach's oboe concerto in F (soloist:

                          Rosie Staniforth of the SCO)                                 

       May 2013               Performance with Amicus Orchestra (conductor/soloist: Will Conway) in St Andrew's in the Square, Glasgow. 

                             Programme:  Gounod's Petite Symphonie for wind, Tchaikovsky's Andante Cantabile for solo 'cello and

                             strings, Mendelssohn's Symphony no. 1 and Folktales, a new commission by Peter Longworth (World Premiere)

Mar 2013               Performance of Waltraut and Gerhard Kirchner's arrangement for flute and Keyboard of J S Bach's organ trio sonata 

                             BWV 529 at the Edinburgh Music Club with Dennis Deas

Dec 2012                Performance with Amicus Orchestra (conductor: Michael Bawtree) in Glasgow University Memorial Chapel. 

                             Programme:  Richard Strauss's Serenade for 13 Wind Instruments op. 7, Judith Bingham's 'The Christmas Truce'

                             (Scottish Premiere) and Haydn's Mass no. 14 in B flat Hob XXII/14  'Harmoniemesse'.  Judith Bingham attended this 

                          performance

       Dec 2012                Solo flute and piano recital East meets West with Peter Churchill for the Edinburgh Society of Musicians

       Nov 2012                Accompanied the inaugural Edinburgh Makar Stewart Conn in readings from his poems as part of Scottish

                              Book Week 2012 in  St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh with Caroline Snell (oboe)

Nov 2012                Principal flute in 'An Evening of Movies & Musicals at Christmas' at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh

Nov 2012                Performance of 'A Scottish Celebration' with the Capital Concert Band in St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh

Nov 2012                Performance of two organ trio sonatas by J S Bach (BWV 525 and BWV 527, arranged for flute & keyboard), at the   

                              Edinburgh Music Club, Belford Road, Edinburgh with Dennis Deas (piano) 

Oct 2012                 Performance with Gladstone's Bag at the Britannia Panopticon Music Hall, Trongate, Glasgow - music to

                           accompany the 1925 (silent) film of Phantom of the Opera

       Oct 2012                 Performance of works by Samuel Barber with Rainer Thönnes (piano) at the Edinburgh Music Club, Belford Road,   

                              Edinburgh

Oct 2012                 Performance in 'The Library at Night' - opening event of the Portobello Book Festival, Edinburgh with Lawrence Dunn 

                              & Bridget Blackmore

Sep 2012                 Soloist in charity concert at Barclay Viewforth Church, Edinburgh  

Aug 2012                 Performance of Scherzo from Prokofiev's Sonata in D Op. 94 for flute and piano and Telemann's Trio Sonata in Cminor in

                              Cheap St Church, Sherborne

Aug 2012                 Flautist-in-residence for the Piano Accompaniment course at the Sherborne Summer School of Music.       

                               Bergamasques and Schubert's symphony no. 3  with Amicus Orchestra at the RCS, Glasgow - James Lowe conducting

Jun 2012                  Soloist in Jubilee Concert with Edinburgh Chamber Orchestra playing J S Bach's Suite no. 2 in B minor and Handel's 

                               Flute Suite in G from the Water Music at St Anne's Episcopal Church, Dunbar

Jun 2012                  Soloist in Jubilee Concert with Edinburgh Chamber Orchestra playing J S Bach's Suite no. 2 in B minor and Handel's

                               Flute Suite in G from the Water Music at Crichton Collegiate Church, Pathhead, near Edinburgh

May 2012                 Soloist in Jubilee Concert with Edinburgh Chamber Orchestra playing J S Bach's Suite no. 2 in B minor and Handel's 

                               Flute Suite in G from the Water Music at Morningside United Church, Edinburgh

Apr 2012                  Principal flute in performance of Beethoven's ‘Christ on the Mount of Olives’ with the  Edinburgh Chamber Orchestra

                               in Morningside United Church, Edinburgh

Feb 2012                  Solo flute/piano recital for the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, with Nancy Crook

Jan 2012                  Principal flute in performance of Brahms’ 2^nd Symphony with ORCAL, Greyfriar’s Kirk, Edinburgh

Dec 2011                Performance of Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony/Larsson’s Pastoral Suite with the Amicus Orchestra, Glasgow - 

                             Christian Kluxen conducting        

Oct 2011                Three performances in Verdun, France with Capital Concert Band

Aug 2011                Performance of Cantabile et Presto by Georges Enescu in Cheap St Church, Sherborne

Aug 2011                Flautist-in-residence for the Piano Accompaniment course at the Sherborne Summer School of Music, Dorset

Mar 2011                Prize-winning performance with Flutes in the Fort, Fort William Music Festival

Jan 2011-16            Flute 1 with Capital Concert Band, Edinburgh – regular concerts in Edinburgh area

Jan 2011                 Principal flute in performance of Richard Strauss’s Death & Transfiguration with ORCAL at the RCS, Glasgow

Dec 2010                 Concert with flute choir Flutes in the Fort in Fort William

Nov 2010                 Solo flute & piano recital (‘East meets West’) in Wylde Green UR Church, Sutton Coldfield with Peter Churchill

Oct 2010                  Concert with flute choir Flutes in the Fort in Fort William

Sep 2010                 Concert with the Marlands Ensemble, Scottish Churches House, Dunblane

Aug 2010                 Performance of Allegro malinconico, first movement of Poulenc's Sonata for Flute & Piano in Cheap St Church,     

                               Sherborne

Aug 2010                 Flautist-in-residence for the Piano Accompaniment course at the Sherborne Summer School of Music, Dorset

Jan 2010                  Principal flute in performance of Rachmaninov’s Symphony no. 2 with ORCAL in Greyfriar’s Kirk, Edinburgh

                   

                              

Oct 2009                  Soloist in charity concert at Scottish Churches House, Dunblane

Oct 2009                  Guest soloist in concert with Flutes in the Fort in Fort William

Aug 2009                  Performance of Mozart’s Flute Quartet in D major with members of the Edinburgh Quartet, Ullapool

Jun 2009                   Soloist in charity concert in Dunblane Cathedral with Martin Davies

May 2009                  Solo flute & piano/organ recitals in St. Martin’s in the Bullring, Birmingham & St. Augustine’s chapel, Bristol with 

                                Peter Churchill

Mar 2009                  Medal-winning performance with the ensemble Flutes in the Fort  at  the Fort William Music Festival

Jan 2009                   Principal flute in performance of Mahler’s Symphony no. 1 with SONO (now ORCAL/Orchestra Caledonia) in

                                Greyfriar’s Kirk, Edinburgh     

Aug 2008                   Soloist in premier of ‘Chinese Whispers’ for solo flute/flute ensemble by Andrew Keeling at British Flute Society 

                                Convention at the RNCM, Manchester

Jul 2008                    Solo flute & piano recital in aid of MS Society in Achmore hall, Ross-shire with Leonard Billam

Jul 2007                     Charity concert with Atsuko Sahara (violin) and Leonard Billam (piano) in Plockton Hall – concert recorded on double 

                                 CD 'Atsuko'

     

Sep 2006                    Recital with TripleSec (flute, narrator and piano) in the Scots Kirk, Paris, France. Recording made of ‘Petit Requiem

                                 pour Basil ’for Andrew Keeling’s CD Blue Dawn (released in 2007)

Oct 2005                    Two concerts in the Dordogne, France with trio TripleSec (flute, narrator and piano) including first performance of

                                 'Petit Requiem pour Basil’- commissioned by the ensemble and composed by Andrew Keeling

Jun 2005                    Concert (‘Summer Lightning’) with TripleSec (flute, narrator and piano) in Balmacara; premier of Summer

                                 Lightning by Andrew Keeling, commissioned by TripleSec

Apr 2003                    Solo flute & piano recital for the Worfield Charity Concert Trust, Wolverhampton with Peter Churchill

Feb 2003                    Class winner/runner up in Curtis Craig Memorial Trophy, Inverness Music Festival 

Dec 2002                    Solo flute & piano recital in Lochalsh with Peter Churchill

Aug 2002                    Solo flute & piano recital in Lochalsh with Leonard Billam

Aug 1999-Dec 10         Flute 1 in SLYMM orchestra (later the Skye & Lochalsh Orchestra)

1982-date                   Employed to perform at weddings, funerals and various public events

1981-84                      Flute 1 in Sheffield Chamber Orchestra

May 1975                    Soloist in performance of J. S Bach's Suite no. 2 in B minor with Harrogate High School orchestra in St Wilfred's 

                                  Church, Harrogate (recorded)

1973-77                      Flute 1 in Northern Area Schools Symphony Orchestra, Guisely/Harrogate