GMF Adjudicator 2025

Heidi is a freelance recorder player and baroque flautist working with various early and contemporary ensembles across the UK (Fiori Musicali, The City Musick, Musical & Amicable Society and Sounds Historical.) She has also recorded for several contemporary groups recorded for BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4.

Heidi is also co director of Banbury Early Music Festival 

Alongside her performance work, Heidi is also a respected musician in education. She is  vice chair of the European Recorder Teachers Association (UK)  and has developed bespoke musical workshops for clients across the UK including Kensington Palace, the Royal Festival Hall, Handel House Museum, Tate Britain and the National Gallery. Heidi is passionate about neuro-inclusive teaching and mental health in music and has written articles for the Musicians Union, The Recorder Magazine and Continuo Connect.   

For over 20 years, Heidi has taught in a wide variety of settings across London and Oxfordshire. In 2004 she worked with a team to develop the Deptford music centre and in 2006 she began her post as a recorder tutor at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance Junior department.​

Heidi currently teaches individuals and ensembles in Oxfordshire, in addition to adjudicating for the British & International federation of festivals, conducting for the Society of Recorder Players and tutoring for the National Youth Recorder Orchestra. 

​Heidi gained her Bmus (Hons) and Mmus in performance qualifications at Goldsmiths University  (studying recorders with a variety of tutors including Louise Bradbury, Dan Laurin, Katriina Boosey and Peter Holtslag) and a PgCert at Birmingham Conservatoire (studying Baroque flute with Annabel Knight, Katy Bircher and Lisa Beznosiuk).

Heidi is also a regular guest on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 - BBC Sounds