Hannah Watts - Flautist

Hannah Watts, Flautist

Hannah completed her Masters in the flute at the Royal Academy of Music in 2012, where she studied with Paul Edmund Davies and Patricia Morris. She was previously an undergraduate flute student of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, studying with Philippa Davies, Sarah Newbold, Ian Clarke and Sharon Williams and completed her degree in 2011.

She has performed alongside the City of London Sinfonia at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, including a live radio broadcast for the BBC, as well as principal piccolo with the acclaimed European Union Youth Orchestra in St John's Smith Square and The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. Furthermore, Hannah has played with Sidcup Symphony Orchestra, for the Dontatella Flick Conducting Competition, and with the Adoramus Orchestra.

In 2006 she played with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and in 2009 she was awarded First Prize in the Concerto Competition at Sutton Music Festival. She was a soloist at St Albans Cathedral in September 2012 and has given several solo recitals to raise funds for international and local causes.

From September 2012 to June 2013, she was Musician in Residence at the renowned Christ's Hospital School in Horsham and from September 2013 she will be taking up a position in the Music Department of Haberdasher's Aske's Boys' School in Elstree. Hannah is a committed and enthusiastic teacher and has private pupils in flute (including fife), singing, piano and music theory.