Hattie is frequently in demand as a session musician, soloist, chamber and orchestral musician, and has worked on a number of short film and television scores with composers including Chris White, on his music for the BBC Wonderland programme Boy Cheerleaders. She has performed with orchestras including the English National Ballet Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra.

Hattie regularly performs as a soloist, and was most recently found under the baton of John Gibbons performing the solo flute part on Arthur Bliss' Pastoral: Lie Strewn the White Flocks. Together with London Flutes, an ensemble for four flutes, Hattie performs and comissions contemporary flute music. For further information on the group please visit our website www.londonflutes.com.

Hattie has also performed as a regular deputy for the flute chair in the West End Shows Mary Poppins and The Far Pavilions, where she also used her recorder and ethnic flute talents!

She is an experienced flute tutor, and for many years taught on the annual flute summer school A Breath of Fresh Air, run by the prestigious flautist Anna Noakes. She has also been invited to take masterclasses at Trinity College of Music, where she studied extensively on a scholarship.

Instruments

Hattie plays on a wonderful in-line flute by Edward Almeida, together with a Nagahara 14k headjoint. She also owns an Oston Brannen flute, together with a piccolo by Anton Braun and a Sankyo alto flute. An avid collector of flutes of all kinds, Hattie also owns (and plays!) Moeck recorders of all sizes, Indian bansuri, Chinese membrane flutes, various panpipes and tin whistles (including a number of Chieftains) and is currently awaiting the delivery of a cocobolo wood whistle by the wonderful Simon Styles of Weston Whistles. See a review of Simon's whistles by the amazing Tony Hinnigan here.

For further information please email hattie@hattiewebster.com