Amy Wood Music
Biography
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Amy was born in the UK and spent her childhood growing up in Sydney and Hong Kong. Overseas, Amy has performed at the Sydney Opera House, Hong Kong Disneyland, and St John’s Cathedral (Hong Kong). At school, Amy was awarded an Outstanding Talent Scholarship for her contributions to music. She studied flute with Kate Lawson and Olivier Nowak, both Principal Flautists of the Hong Kong Sinfonietta and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra respectively.
From 2019-2023, Amy studied her Bachelor of Music with Honours at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. She studied Flute with Susan Milan, Baroque Flute with Rachel Brown, and Piccolo with Christopher Green. In 2020, she won the Harold Clarke Woodwind Competition (1st year division) and was subsequently awarded the Michael Hirst and Trinity College of Music Trust Scholarships. In October 2020, Amy organised and performed a concert to raise awareness of Black Composers for Black History Month. This performance was featured on Greenwich Maritime Radio and the Trinity Laban YouTube channel. As a scholar at the Old Royal Naval College Chapel Choir, Amy performed at St. Paul’s Cathedral and in the Platinum Jubilee Episode of Songs of Praise alongside Katherine Jenkins OBE. Before graduating, Amy was the Principal Flute of the Trinity Laban Symphony Orchestra, where she performed the Firebird Suite at Cadogan Hall under conductor Jessica Cottis.
Outside of conservatoire, Amy won the Ongar Club Music Prize (2021), was a finalist in the British Flute Society Competition (2021) and was Flute Winner of the Virtuoso II Prize in the London International Music Competition (2024). Amy was Principal Flautist of the Royal Yeomanry Band and performed at the Lord Mayor’s Show, Remembrance Day Parades and Freedom of Shrewsbury. To celebrate the coronation of King Charles III, Amy performed with the Royal Yeomanry Band on the Coronation Street Coronation Episode. Orchestrally, Amy has performed with the University of Surrey Orchestra, Lambeth Orchestra, and London Opera Company. Amy has performed in masterclasses with Gitte Marcusson, Kate Hill, Robert Winn, Paul Edmund-Davies, Elisabet Franch, Maron Khoury and Sarah Newbold. Amy has also attended the Oxford Flute Summer School and Liverpool Flute Academy, where she studied with the Flute section of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and was selected as a finalist in the Orchestral Audition Competition (July 2024)
Amy began studying her Master of Music at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland as a recipient of the RCS Trust Scholarship and Universal Music Sound Foundation Scholarship in September 2023. She studies flute with Katherine Bryan and André Cebrián and piccolo with Janet Richardson. Amy has performed with various ensembles at RCS including Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra, Opera Orchestra, Ballet Showcase Orchestra and in a Woodwind Quintet. Outside of her studies, Amy regularly performs with the Highland & Lowland Bands (Royal Regiment of Scotland), the Hoolan Ensemble and the Glasgow Bach Cantata Project. Amy holds her LRSM Flute Diploma with Distinction.