Amy Harman
Bassoon
Amy Harman began her studies at the Junior Department of the Royal College of Music at the age of 9 where she was awarded the Sally Wainwright Woodwind Prize. She has recently completed her undergraduate studies at the Royal College of Music, under the tuition of Andrea de Flammineis, Julie Price and Martin Gatt, where she has been awarded the RCM Bassoon Prize, Paul Carroll Bassoon Quartet prize and also achieved the highest mark ever awarded to a bassoonist in a final recital. In 2007 Amy took part in an ERASMUS exchange to the Hudební Fakulta Akademie Múzických Umění in Prague, studying with František Herman, where she performed with the academy orchestra in the Rudolfinum.
Amy is currently on trial for co-principal bassoon in the RTE national Symphony Orchestra in Dublin Ireland. She has played as principal Bassoon of the Britten Pears Orchestra since 2007 and has recently spent 2 months in Virginia, USA playing in the Castleton Festival Orchestra under Lorin Maazel.
As a soloist Amy has recently perfomed Weber Bassoon Concerto with the Dorset Chamber Orchestra and will soon appear with the Haffner Orchestra. Amy is also active chamber musician, regularly performing with the Meldrum Trio. She also regularly collaborates with the Chillingirian Quartet, and has performed a series of concerts at Kings Place with the Taliesin Ensemble.
Upcoming engagements include performances with Ensemble 360 throughout the UK and several performances of Beethoven and Schubert chamber music at the Pharos Music Festival in Cyprus with Radovan Vlatkovic and Charles Neidich.
