Leila Hooton

Leila Hooton is a freelance flautist/piccolo player, and teacher. She is currently living in London where she is studying, as the Fishmonger’s Company Beckwith Scholar, for her Masters in Instrumental Performance at The Royal College of Music. She is currently learning with Gitte Marcusson, Emer McDonough and Diomedes Demetriades. She is grateful to be financially supported by Help Musicians UK and the Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust.

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 and she worked as the SoundLab Coordinator for the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire's Learning and Participation Department's outreach project SoundLab for the academic year 2021 - 2022. Leila is excited to be taking on the role of the Royal College of Music Student Union’s President for the years 2024/2025 in August 2024.

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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 (more detail can be found about this in Repertoire/Experience).