Edwina Smith (Flute, Baroque Flute)
Edwina Smith's performance repertoire ranges from baroque and classical music played on period instruments, to contemporary music theatre. She plays principal flute with Yorkshire Baroque Soloists, Newcastle Baroque and the Manchester-based Orchestra of the Golden Age, featuring on their recording of Telemann's complete 'Tafelmusik' (Naxos). She also performs, on period instruments, with the Eighteenth Century Sinfonia and Café Mozart, whilst on the modern instrument Edwina is a freelance solo, chamber and orchestral flautist. She has recorded for BBC radio and television on baroque, nineteenth-century and modern flutes, and has commissioned and performed several contemporary works for baroque flute.
Edwina teaches modern and baroque flute at the Universities of York and York St. John, also providing specialist baroque tuition and advice for occasional students from Huddersfield and Newcastle Universities. In addition to performing and teaching, she is the flute consultant for the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments and has contributed performances to a website demonstrating and describing a number of these instruments (www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi). Her catalogue of nearly 300 flutes held by this collection is now in its third edition, and she is currently preparing a second edition of the catalogue of recorders and flageolets in the same collection.
Together with Dr Derek McCulloch, Edwina has prepared a new edition for Corda Music of Haydn's trios for two flutes and cello (Hob. IV: 1-4), incorporating variants found in early nineteenth century editions. She contributed an article on this edition to the Haydn Society Journal, and has recorded two of the trios with Café Mozart as part of a CD of works by Haydn and the Earl of Abingdon (Naxos).