Emily Beynon will be the protagonist of the second event of the ICMA Masterclass Programme, taking place from 16th to 18th February 2018
Emily Beynon: a distinguished guest for the second event of the ICMA Masterclass Programme, from 16th-18th February 2018.
Emily Beynon is principal flute of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam.
Born in Wales, Emily Beynon began her flute studies as a junior at the Royal College of Music with Margaret Ogonovsky and then went on to study with William Bennett at the Royal Academy and with Alain Marion in Paris. In 2002 she was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music.
Emily Beynon has performed as concerto soloist with, amongst others, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Orchestras, NHK Symphony, the Vienna, Prague, Netherlands and English Chamber Orchestras and the Academy of St.Martin-in-the-Fields.
Emily is an enthusiastic protagonist of new music and has had many new works written for her by some of the UK’s leading composers: John Woolrich, Sally Beamish, Jonathan Dove, Errollyn Wallen and Roxanna Panufnik. In 2008 Universal Edition has released a book of contemporary works entitled Flute Project: new pieces for flute solo on which she collaborated with Matthieu Dufour (Chicago Symphony), Kazushi Saito (Tokyo Philharmonic), and Emmanuel Pahud (Berlin Philharmonic).
Education is one of Emily Beynon’s passions, and she is frequently invited to hold masterclasses all over the world. In 2009 she founded the Netherlands Flute Academy together with entrepreneur and flutist Suzanne Wolff.
Masterclass registrations are open to Italian and foreign musicians. The event will take place at ICMA – International Community Music Academy of the United World College of the Adriatic, from 16th-18th February 2018.
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