Artists

Lumas Winds

Beth Stone (flute)
Ewan Millar (oboe)
Rennie Sutherland (clarinet)
Florence Plane (bassoon)
Benjamin Hartnell-Booth (horn)

Lumas Winds is a dynamic chamber ensemble based in London. Winners of the 71st Royal Over-Seas League Mixed Ensemble Prize in 2023, Lumas are committed ambassadors for wind chamber music and the rich variety of repertoire that it offers. The ensemble are Making Music’s Phillip and Dorothy Green Young Artists and will take up an Aldeburgh residency in March 2024 as Britten Pears Young Artists.

Alongside performing the classics of the repertoire, Lumas enjoy exploring works not currently in the canon but which deserve to be so. This is highlighted in the six hidden gems that will feature on their debut album due for release in early 2024 for Champs Hill Records. The disc brings together repertoire from every decade from 1960 to 2010 and includes three world premiere recordings of music by Sally Beamish, Gavin Higgins and Elizabeth Maconchy. Lumas won the Royal Academy of Music's Historical Women Composers Prize in 2022 with its performance of the latter, a major discovery from the ensemble's visit to the Maconchy archive at St. Hilda's, Oxford.

Lumas have performed at Wigmore Hall and at the Corbridge, Ironstone and Winchester Chamber Music festivals. Amongst these collaborations have been performances of Poulenc's Sextet with pianists Huw Watkins and Benjamin Frith. Other upcoming engagements include a tour of Scottish music clubs in 2024 as recipients of the prestigious Tunnel Trust award, a tour with Concerts-in-the-West, and they will be featured in the 2024 Lake District Summer Music Festival.

www.lumaswinds.com