I grew up on a farm in New South Wales, Australia, as the third of four sisters. When I decided to be a flautist I had never seen a flute. I was seven years old playing in the garden on our farm when Jean-Pierre Rampal’s recording of the Mozart Flute and Harp Concerto came through my parents’ speakers. The second movement of that concerto rendered me speechless. Every decision from that moment on led me to the flute, to Paris… to Mozart... A long way from the flies and the dust! I studied flute at the University of Sydney before continuing my studies at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris under the tutelage of Raymond Guiot and Catherine Cantin, drawing inspiration from the famed French school of flute playing.

Both of my albums have won critical acclaim internationally, my Mozart and Myslivecek flute concertos with the English Chamber Orchestra, was selected as No.3 of Classic FM’s ‘Best Albums of 2018’, reaching No. 1 on Amazon’s Classical Best Sellers list (Germany), NDR Kultur CD of the week, BBC Scotland CD of the week, and Classic FM Netherlands CD of week. My second album of rare concertos for flute and oboe by Haydn and Stamitz, recorded with oboist Ramón Ortega Quero and the Trondheim Soloists, is receiving similar acclaim. Winning NDR and WDR CD of the weeks, reviews have hailed the album as ‘Perfect Harmony’ (NDR) ‘outstanding class’ (RBB) and “…nothing to be desired in terms of musical interpretation.” (Pizzicato).

I currently have a weekly show on IDAGIO Live discussing the history of the flute and its important place in todays musical world.

"The new wonder flautist" - Welt am Sonntag