Biography

Meg started playing the flute through her local music service in South London at the age of 7 years old, learning from Sahana Gero and Candice Hamel. When she moved to secondary school, Meg attended the Centre for Young Musicians in Lambeth, where she was taught flute mainly by Judith Treggor. She performed with the London Youth Windband and London Schools Symphony Orchestra on flute and piccolo, and then with CBSO Youth when she moved to Birmingham for her studies. 


Meg has a BMus Honours from the University of Birmingham, during which she won the University of Birmingham Soloist Competition, and a MMus in Flute Performance from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Throughout her time in Birmingham, Meg has been taught predominantly by Jonathan Rimmer, but also Andrew Lane, Judith Hall and Dougie Mitchell. During her time at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, she co-founded Orchestra in the Shape of a Pear with Yannick Mayhaud and Will Hammond. Since graduating, Meg has enjoyed a varied freelance career. She has co-founded Amalthea Ensemble with her friend Alice Cheer, which is a flexible ensemble whose ethos is to bring chamber music to more accessible spaces. Amalthea Ensemble also champions female performers and composers in its projects.  She has played in an award-winning production of Trouble in Tahiti for Grimeborn Opera Festival and played new compositions in Flatpack Film Festival and in the Birmingham Jazz Orchestra. She sticks to her jazz roots, often performing with jazz groups, including musicians and composers such as Olivia Murphy, Steve Saunders and Xhosa Cole. She’s recorded on Steve Banks’ upcoming big band album Emboldened. She is an accomplished free improviser and promotes contemporary music in the classical world, as well as teaching and conducting at Wandsworth Music.


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