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Harry Winstanley, Orchestral Manager

Freelance flautist, Harry Winstanley studied the flute with Celia Chambers, Sue Thomas and Simon Channing, as well as having received tuition from Clare Southworth, Lisa Nelson, Kirsten Spratt, Jonathan Snowden, Sue Thomas and Jeanne Galway. He was awarded the first ever Tonbridge Foundation Scholarship, a 100% award, to study at Tonbridge School. He went on to study Music as an exhibitioner at the University of Cambridge where he graduated with a first class degree, as well a receiving The Gamble Prize and The Sophia Adelaide Turle Scholarship for Music. During his final year, he was President of the Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra.

Harry has appeared as a soloist with Kent Concert Orchestra, the orchestra of Kent Music Academy, Milton Keynes City Orchestra, City of London Choir and London Mozart Players, and played in many concert halls and theatres at home and abroad, including the Royal College of Music, the Piccadilly Theatre, St John's Smiths Square, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Cadogan Hall and the Royal Albert Hall. He has recorded with Sir David Willcocks and the Dmitri Ensemble and appeared on 'In Tune' on Radio 3. He played at the 60th Birthday Concert of James Galway, and in the summer of 2006 Harry was invited to play with the National Youth Music Theatre at Windsor Castle for Her Majesty the Queen at her family dinner, as part of her 80th birthday celebrations.

Harry has been a competitor in the BBC Young Musician of the Year twice, reaching the quarter-finals in 2004, then reaching the televised semi-finals in 2006. He is currently a post-graduate student at the Royal Academy of Music, to which he holds a full scholarship, where he studies with William Bennett and Michael Cox, and freelances with a number of orchestras around London.