Abigail Burrows ~ Flute

In recital, Abigail has played at the Fishguard, Windsor, Buckingham and Edinburgh Music Festivals. International concerts include performances in Russia as a recitalist during their Rachmaninoff Festival (a prize as the winner of the Watford Concerto Competition).  She was then invited back the following year to play as a soloist with the Novgorod Philharmonic Orchestra in their Stars of the 21^st Century Festival.  She has been featured in a Musical Talent programme filmed in Norway (Oslo), and toured Germany as a guest solo artist with the New English Singers for the ‘Bach 250th Anniversary Celebrations’, performing in Hallé, Dresden, Berlin and Bach’s Thomas Kirche in Leipzig.  She has played in a private concert for HRH Prince of Wales at St James's Palace, to the Queen at Buckingham Palace, and at Southwark Cathedral for the Damilola Trust's 'Memorial Service for All Children Lost to Youth Violence', in the presence of David Cameron, Gordon Brown and Boris Johnson, filmed by ITV1.  She has been heard as a soloist on Classic FM, BBC Radio 4 (Remembrance Sunday), BBC World Service and has been featured on BBC1’s The Joys of Christmas and Songs of Praise.

A keen chamber musician, Abbie has performed with various groups at venues including the Wigmore Hall, Cheltenham's Pitville Pump Room, Birmingham Symphony Hall, Blackheath Halls, Newport Riverfront Centre and Bridgewater Hall.  She is currently a member of a flute & piano duo with Daniel Swain, a flute & guitar duo with Tom McLauchlan and a new flute trio called Flight.  She spent two years in the folk-rock band Paris Motel, whose first album was released in Europe to critical acclaim from the likes of NME, The Independent, Dazed & Confused, Music Week and Word Magazine.  They appeared at venues including KoKo Camden, Islington Academy and Bush Hall, and festivals including Latitude and Glastonbury.  Last year, Abbie was the classical guest artist at a sell-out Jethro Tull concert at The Barbican Hall, performing a solo slot and a duet with the legendary rock-flautist, Ian Anderson. Couture Designer Jasper Garvida, winner of SKY1's Project Catwalk, designed and created her dress specially for the occasion, and she performed on the Crystal Pearl Flute, a unique specially-made instrument encrusted with over 8,000 Swarovski crystals.  She has since been made a Pearl Flutes International Artist

Abbie was a Live Music Now! artist for four years, giving regular outreach concerts and workshops across the UK and Ireland, and is now a mentor for new ensembles on the scheme.  She also works with Music in Hospitals, touring the UK and Chanel Islands giving concerts in hospitals, hospices, schools and nursing homes.  In demand as a teacher, she works at Hill House School, Knightsbridge once a week and is a dep for the Trinity and Royal Academy of Music Junior Departments.  She works regularly for Flutewise, as a contributor to their magazine and tutor on their residential courses in the UK, Slovenia and Croatia.  She has also been invited to be a tutor at The Flute School, London later this year, alongside Wissam Boustany and Mike Mower.

Abbie is currently living in London, having lessons with Michael Cox and her debut CD is being recorded in August.  In her spare time, Abbie enjoys creative writing and is currently working on a music storybook for pre-school children. Adventurous by nature, she has a passion for trying new things, including sky diving, stilt walking, flying trapeze lessons, acting and tap dancing.