Laura Beardsmore

Laura completed her Undergraduate and Masters degrees at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has studied with Carla Rees, Simon Channing and most recently with renowned contemporary flautist Robert Dick at his residential studio in New York City. Laura was selected to take part in the inaugural Soundings Academy, a contemporary music festival run through the Austrian Cultural Forum in Knightsbridge, London. She was the co-founder of cross-genre ensemble WOLF PACK, with whom she held a five day residency at Vault Festival. She gave her concerto debut in March 2014, performing Lennox Berkeley’s orchestration of Poulenc’s Flute Sonata. A member of alto and bass flute ensemble rarescale Flute Academy since 2007, Laura has given numerous performances with the group, including performing as a soloist at the British Flute Society’s 9th International Convention. Laura has recently performed at the International Prokofiev Festival, Kensington, with rarescale at The Forge in Camden, and at Spectrum in New York City, as well as giving regular solo and chamber performances at venues in London and the South East. She plays a Sankyo-Kingma flute, with a key system developed by Dutch flute maker Eva Kingma that enables the instrument to play a full quarter tone scale, and works with composers to develop new repertoire for this instrument, as well as for alto and bass flute.