Biography

I began my journey as a musician being dragged along to the Saturday music group at Gloucester Academy of Music by my older sister, who had started learning violin at the time. Before I knew it, I was filling all available time with as much music as possible, paying little attention to anything else.

At 18, I earned a scholarship to study in Cardiff at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama with Rosie Biss, before moving to London and completing my master’s degree at the Royal Academy of Music under the tutelage of Felix Schmidt. Graduating in the peak of Covid-19 restrictions and following some poor advice, I decided that orchestral playing wasn’t for me and attended the Abbey Road Institute to study Production and Sound Engineering. Although I loved my year at the institute and continue to use those skills to this day, I couldn’t help but wish to be on the other side of the production booth, playing with the amazing musicians working in orchestras there.

After completing my course, I auditioned and received a place on the CBSO career development scheme, spending a year with the amazing members of the cello section, who helped me to a place where I felt confident enough in my playing to begin auditioning as a professional cellist.

As an auditionee, I saw some success but could never shake the feeling of being out of my depth, having not played in an orchestra in three years! A friend and alum suggested that Sinfonia Smith Square would be the perfect environment to cut my teeth as an orchestral cellist, so I put together my application and I am delighted to have been accepted as a member for the 2025/26 season!

Alongside orchestral playing, I am a member of a longstanding string quartet, the Calathea Quartet. We have been together since our final year of postgraduate study and together have been Britten Pears Young Artists 2022–2024, toured New Zealand with Chamber Music New Zealand, played in various venues across the UK and Ireland, and have just completed a year as String Quartet Fellows at the Royal College of Music.

Outside but adjacent to the classical music world, I work as a string arranger and songwriter, writing for various bands, artists, and projects as well as providing my skills as a cellist, both acoustic and electric. My work has been featured by BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 6, BBC Music Introducing, Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, Sundance Film Festival, and various other multimedia streaming platforms.

I play on a modern cello made by Harry Strong in 2022.