Leila Hooton (flute) & Iain Clarke (piano)

Programme

Anna Bon De Venezia: Sonata No.5 in G minor, Op.1
Henri Dutilleux: Sonatine for Flute and Piano
Camille Saint-Saëns: Romance for Flute and Piano, Op.37
Lowell Liebermann: Sonata for Flute and Piano, Op.23

Artist Bio

Leila Hooton is a freelance flautist/piccolo player, and teacher. She is currently living in London where she is working as the President of the Royal College of Music’s Student Union. She graduated from the College with a Masters in Performance in July 2024 where she learnt under Gitte Marcusson, Emer McDonough and Diomedes Demetriades. Her current role allows her to continue her lessons and this year Leila is also learning with Sue Thomas and Simon Channing. During her studies, Leila was kindly supported by the Fishmonger’s Company Beckwith Scholarship, Help Musicians UK and the Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust. She is delighted to be part of Talent Unlimited.

Alongside her studies, Leila teaches flute privately, performs with The Heart of England Philharmonic, Music in Felixstowe, The Sinfonia Stellaris, the function band Good Vibes and the ceilidh band The Sassenachs. Leila also enjoys working in arts admin. She is currently the Pastoral and Operations Assistant for Guildhall Young Artists Norwich, Assistant to the Norfolk County Youth Orchestra and in 2022, she worked as the SoundLab Coordinator for the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire’s Learning and Participation Department’s outreach project SoundLab.
Leila graduated with a 1st class B(Mus)Hons degree from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in 2021 with a semester studying at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague. She has recently completed her Post-Graduate Certificate in Flute Performance at the Conservatoire graduating with a Merit in July 2022. During her BMus and PG Cert, Leila studied with Judith Hall, Marie-Christine Zupancic, Andrew Lane and Thies Roorda. She also learnt with Anna Noakes whilst in sixth form.

Leila has wide performance experience having played at the Barbican with the Britten Sinfonia Academy and recorded for the Peaky Blinders Soundtrack in England, performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, the EU Parliament in Belgium with Joe Broughton’s Conservatoire Folk Ensemble, the Royal Conservatory of the Hague in Holland, the Summer Academy Voksenaasen in Norway, the Mozarthaus in Vienna as a finalist in the 3rd Vienna International Music Competition and toured Serbia (playing for Birmingham School of Acting) and Germany with Triorca.

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