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 whose work bridges contemporary performance, electronic music and interdisciplinary collaboration. A scholarship graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, she earned a first-class honours degree in Classical flute in 2022, before being appointed a Junior Fellow in flute and composition for the 2022-23 academic year. Across her undergraduate and fellowship years, Imogen studied with Ian Clarke, Philippa Davies, Sarah Newbold, Christopher Green, Matthew Kaner, and Paul Newland.

As a performer, Imogen's career spans solo, orchestral, and chamber music. Her accolades include the 2022 Needlemaker’s Prize at the Guildhall School, awarded following a performance of her original work for flute and live electronics, ∆P. She has broadcast on BBC Radio 3 with Plus Minus Ensemble, performed as principal flute with the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Concert Hall, and tours regularly with Symphonica Orchestra. In 2024, she gave the world premiere of David Soin Tappeser’s An Omniscience as principal flute at the Finnish National Gallery.

Imogen’s compositions and sound installations have been presented internationally in concert halls, galleries and public spaces, including Piccadilly Lights in London, The Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, Fed Square in Melbourne, COEX K-pop Square in Seoul, the Julia Stoschek Foundation in Berlin and esc medien kunst labor in Austria. Recent commissions include a large-scale sound installation for Nxt Museum’s 15-month exhibition UFO, music for LN-CC x Adidas Y-3 fashion editorials, a solo flute work written and performed for the relaunch of Wessel Flutes commissioned by Just Flutes London, and composition and sound design for Anan Fries’ video game R.I.P. – REDEMPTION. Additionally, Imogen is one half of composer-performer duo snake_case, whose commissions include Berlin Fashion Week, HOLON Gallery Berlin, Helsinki Fashion Week, Sónar Festival Barcelona and Ars Electronica Linz.

VIOLA

Georgia Russell 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.