Last night I played in a performance of Mendelssohn's Elijah at Cadogan Hall. I've played this work once before on modern instruments, however this time I was required to play it on the natural trumpet...

Last week, I took part in my first performance of Stravinsky's 'L'Histoire du soldat' (The Soldier's Tale). The project was a collaboration between the London Arts Orchestra and the Rough Fiction theatre company, culminating in a show at Keele University...

My last four months of 2016 were spent planning and looking forward to a solo study trip to Norway in the New Year. It was an exciting prospect but also started to feel like a slightly crazy idea - moving to Scandinavia during the coldest, darkest months of the year! Still, kitted out with snow boots and woolly jumpers, I flew to Oslo on 4th January 2017. And now here I am, over half way through my trip, so I decided it was about time to write a post on what I've been up to so far...

With 2016 being my first full year out of music college, I was anxious about what lay ahead... But little did I know that I had no need to worry, as I was about to embark upon an amazing year of playing, alongside new friends for life...

Following a brilliant and inspiring week in Norway this summer, I have decided to move to Oslo for 7 weeks in January 2017...

This summer I was chosen as the featured soloist for the Battle Proms, a series of open-air concerts at stately homes around England. I played at four of these events during July and August, performing the First Movement of Haydn's Trumpet Concerto and The Prince of Denmark's March by J. Clarke to over 40,000 people. I was accompanied by the New English Concert Orchestra, conducted by Douglas Coombes and the concerts were sponsored by Classic FM...

After arriving back in London from an exhausting but fantastic trip to Italy with Southbank Sinfonia, my destination the following morning was Norway. I was excited to have been accepted onto the Trumpet Course at the Voksenåsen SummerAcademy, where I would study for a week with soloist Tine Thing Helseth and Arnaulf Naur Nilsen (Tine's former teacher and former principal trumpet of the Oslo Philharmonic)...

Since my very first day in Southbank Sinfonia, back in January of this year, anticipation has been steadily building towards what most members of staff - and every alumni member you'll meet - will describe as the highlight of the programme: the Anghiari Festival. As summer drew nearer, our rehearsals began to be filled with more chamber works and music by Italian composers. Finally in mid-July, armed with litres of sun-cream, mosquito repellent and a military operation-style schedule, we were ready to go...

As the voting day draws nearer for the decision of whether Britain should remain in or leave the European Union, I've been thinking about the impact that the outcome could have on musicians...

My last couple of weeks have been completely filled with contemporary music! From an orchestral club night performance with the Southbank Sinfonia to a collaboration with the 15 Second Harp project and preparations for two upcoming concerts with the Park Lane Group, I've had to get used to sight reading unusual rhythms, leaping around uncomfortable intervals and deciding how best to interpret the music in front of me...

It was with great sadness this week that I learned of the death of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Having performed a couple of his works for trumpet, I decided I wanted to offer my own tribute and take you on a journey through my experience of such a great man and composer...

With this week being International Women's Week, I thought that it might be interesting to reflect upon (and celebrate) some of the women within the music profession, whom I know and have recently worked with, and who have inspired me.