HARP

Award-winning harpist Heather Brooks has just completed her final year on the Artists' Masters programme at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with Distinction, where she studied with Professor Imogen Barford. She has won the Musicians' Company David Goldman Award and awards from the Tillett, Colin Keer and Robert Bouffler Trusts, as well as a Government Music and Dance Scheme Scholarship to attend The Purcell School for Young Musicians.

In 2021, Heather performed as a soloist with the Guildhall Chamber Orchestra and conductor Joshua Weilerstein, presenting Roxana Panufnik's Harp Concerto Powers and Dominions at Milton Court Concert Hall. The following year she won the City of Szeged Prize at the Sixth International Harp Competition in Hungary and was chosen for the London Sinfonietta Academy 2022–2023.

Heather was selected for the harp position at the Encuentro de Música y Academia de Santander

2023 and recently recorded with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra. She is also in demand as a chamber musician: in 2024 she was chosen to accompany the winner of the Guildhall Recital Prize, Ana-Carmen Balestra, in the Wigmore Hall.

In May 2024 Heather made her concerto debut in the Barbican Hall as a finalist in the Guildhall Gold Medal Competition.

Heather began learning the harp at age ten with Daphne Boden and went on to win the Purcell School Student Showcase, performing at the Wigmore Hall. In July 2015, Heather was awarded the long-term loan of the Charles Steer Promenaders' Salvi Aurora Harp by the Cherubim Music Trust. As section leader of the National Youth Harp Orchestra, she premiered her own composition, World Harp Symphony, at St George's Chapel, Windsor.

FLUTE

Imogen Davey is a London-based flautist, composer and sound artist. She holds a first-class honours degree in Classical flute from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she was a scholarship holder and studied with Ian Clarke, Philippa Davies, Sarah Newbold, Christopher Green, and Matthew Kaner. After graduating in 2022, she was appointed a Junior Fellow at Guildhall for 2022–23, specialising in flute and composition. During this time, she continued her flute studies with Ian Clarke and composition with Paul Newland, while also teaching composition and music production to undergraduate woodwind students.

Imogen has performed widely, including as principal flute with the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra in the Barbican Concert Hall, and with Plus Minus Ensemble in a BBC Radio 3 broadcast. She regularly performs with Symphonica Orchestra across the UK, and in 2024 gave the world premiere of David Soin Tappeser’s An Omniscience as principal flute at the Finnish National Gallery. In 2022, she was awarded the Needlemaker’s Prize for woodwind students at the Guildhall School, following a performance of her own work, ∆P, for flute and live electronics.

Imogen’s compositions have been presented internationally at venues such as Piccadilly Lights (London), Fed Square (Melbourne), COEX K-pop Square (Seoul), Julia Stoschek Foundation (Berlin), and esc medien kunst labor (Austria). Her work spans exhibitions, concerts, and video games, with commissions from the LNCC, Adidas Y-3, and Anan Fries’ video game R.I.P. – REDEMPTION. In 2022, she was commissioned by the Nxt Museum (Amsterdam) to create a sound installation for their UFO exhibition, which ran from June 2022 to September 2023. In 2023, Imogen was commissioned by Just Flutes London to write and perform a solo work celebrating the relaunch of the Wessel Flute. In 2024, her piece STRATA was premiered by Trio Farben at The Bridgewater Hall and later performed at The Jubilee Hall and Britten Studio as part of the trio’s Britten Pears Arts Chamber Residency. In 2025, she was one of three composers selected for the Standard Issue Call for Scores commission.

Alongside her solo and ensemble work, Imogen forms one half of snake_case, a composer/performer duo whose commissions include Berlin Fashion Week, HOLON Gallery (Berlin), Helsinki Fashion Week, Sónar Festival (Barcelona), and Ars Electronica (Linz). The duo are current composers-in-residence with Berlin-based fashion collective SBLMTN Studio and hold a residency at Candid Arts, where they curate and perform in experimental audiovisual events.

VIOLA

Georgia Russell, 25, studied with Gary Pomeroy and Matthew Jones at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, graduating from her masters with distinction in the summer of 2024. She is a sought after chamber, solo and orchestral musician in the UK and abroad. In 2024 she won first prize in the North London Festival’s senior viola category, and is a member of Fantasia Orchestra, with whom she played at the 2024 BBC Proms.

She often plays as co-principal and chamber viola with Orchestra for the Earth, and plays with the London-based 97 Ensemble as both a soloist and chamber musician.

She has had the pleasure of attending the International Musician’s Seminar’s Open Chamber Music at Prussia Cove in years 2021–2024, and was invited to play at the Mendelssohn on Mull festival by the Maxwell string quartet in September 2024, where they performed Mozart's viola quintet in C major.

Georgia plays with leading UK orchestras including The Heritage Orchestra, Oxford Opera Orchestra, often as co-principal viola, and has been on trial with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

In addition to her classical playing, she enjoys playing and recording for pop artists such as Matilda Mann, Artemas, Pete Tong, Balimaya Project and Phoebe Rae, to name a few. She can often be spotted around the UK depping in the touring production of the west-end hit musical Hamilton.

Georgia is particularly interested in contemporary music, having performed with London-based Plus Minus Ensemble in 2023, the same year in which she premiered new works for solo viola at the acclaimed Darmstadt Summer School Festival in Germany. In addition to her performing Georgia loves composing and arranging, and has written string arrangements for artists including Matilda Mann and Artemas. She released her first EP, 'Me, to u, to me, to u' in January 2025.