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Camille Curtis
After graduating, Camille became a Fellow of the Royal Academy, working closely with the Open Academy department to plan and deliver music workshops in collaboration with leading freelance musicians and workshop leaders and the City of London Sinfonia. She now balances a busy teaching schedule in music outreach and education alongside performing – recently with the Iuventus Chamber Orchestra in Sherborne Abbey’s festival, Queen’s College Chapel Choir in Oxford, and Waterperry Opera Festival. Camille is a member of ‘Chiltern Winds’, a wind quintet of RAM graduates who won the 2021 Nicholas Blake Prize. Having had the opportunity to perform the concerto cancelled in 2020 due to COVID-19, Camille is very grateful to Crowthorne Symphony Orchestra for this opportunity to play the Ibert Flute Concerto. This piece is very dear to her, evoking memories of her time studying at the RAM. She would like to dedicate and play the 2nd movement in loving memory of Kay Gibbs who she has fond memories of playing alongside. . |
As a young child, Camille Curtis was inspired by the sound of the flute she heard on the radio and began learning the instrument at school. After a few years she won a scholarship to study at the Music School of Douglas Academy with Sheena Gordon, and in 2013 went on to the University of Edinburgh to study music. Here Camille was a regular prize winner including the Tovey Memorial Prize, the Sir Thomas Beecham Award, the Erasmus Exchange to study in France, and the opportunity to perform Mozart’s G Major Flute Concerto with the Edinburgh University Chamber Orchestra. She obtained a First Class BMus Honours degree under the teaching of Siobhan Grealy, and a scholarship for her Masters’ degree at the Royal Academy of Music where she studied the flute with Karen Jones and piccolo with Patricia Morris, both of whom were influential in helping her form her own musical voice. While at the RAM, Camille performed with conductor Edward Gardner, violinist Lorenza Borrani and Opera Director Anthony Legge, and received a high commendation in the Altus Flute Competition and the Jonathan Myall Piccolo Prize.