Katherine Bryan (born 1982) is a British

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. She was appointed Principal Flute of the

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in Spring 2003, at the age of 21.

Career

Born in 1982, Bryan was educated at

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. Whilst there, in 1997 she won the Audi Young Musician competition, the only wind player ever to do so, after performing the Nielsen concerto with the Orchestra of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields conducted by

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. The performance was broadcast live on Classic FM. She was a woodwind finalist in

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TV Young Musicians competition in 1998, 2000 and 2002, and a prizewinner in the 1999 Royal Overseas League Competition. Later that year she won the Royal Philharmonic Society's Julius Isserlis Scholarship, which enabled her to study at

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in New York from 2000 until graduation in 2003. Bryan was featured in

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as a Great British Hope - a Rising Star in the Arts Firmament. In 2001, Bryan gave her

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debut playing Mozart's Flute concerto in

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with the Juilliard Symphony Orchestra after winning the Juilliard concerto competition. She has performed with the

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, the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, and spent the summers of 2001 and 2002 with the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra in Japan. Bryan performed Mozart's Flute and harp concerto with the harpist Pippa Tunnell in the 2004 RSNO

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Proms, and in July 2004, she gave a solo flute recital at the Cheltenham International Festival. She continues to perform regularly around the UK and abroad. In addition to her position with the RSNO, Bryan has performed as Guest Principal Flute with orchestras including the Halle, the

Scottish Chamber Orchestra The Scottish Chamber Orchestra (SCO) is an Edinburgh-based UK chamber orchestra. One of Scotland's five National Performing Arts Companies, the SCO performs throughout Scotland, including annual tours of the Scottish Highlands and Islands and S ...

, the Northern Sinfonia, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra. Bryan is also a lecturer of flute at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, and runs her own course, Scottish Masterclasses. In September 2015, Bryan released an album, ''Silver Bow'', accompanied by the

conducted by

Jac van Steen Jac van Steen (born 1956 in Eindhoven) is a Dutch conductor. He studied music theory, as well as orchestral and choral conducting, at the . In the Netherlands, van Steen was conductor and music director of the Nijmegen Bach Choir from 1986 to 1 ...

. Katherine joined management agenc
Ikon Arts Management
in March 2016.

References

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