“I started playing the flute age 7 (recorder age 6), so I have now been playing the flute approaching 50 years. It is my first instrument, and I am classically trained. Of the many things I can claim to be, a flautist I am! Engagements through the years have included playing in secular and scared contexts: - in concerts; the theatre; for TV; at festivals, and for private functions. I play from the classical flute repertoire, and beyond, including folk , Latin and jazz!”
Frances Gill.
Ensemble positions held, and selected engagements for Frances Gill
2008 - ongoing | Recorder-playing (on sopranino, descant and bass)
– with ‘Träklang’ recorder ensemble, Urshult, (Sweden).
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2013 - 2019 | Flautist with Anki Lindeqvist (piano)
– together: - in duet; with the Do and Re Children’s Choirs; Youth Choir, Reunion Choir, and SATB Choir in Väckelsång, for numerous performances.
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1996 - 2001 | Principle flautist
– with ‘The Carollers’ folk trio, based in York (UK), performing traditional folk carols in numerous festive concerts and events throughout Yorkshire during Christmastime.
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1995 - 1999 | Principle flautist
– with ‘Rosa Alba Wind Ensemble’, based in York (UK), performing the wind-quintet repertoire, in numerous local concerts across the city’s venues.
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1994 - 1998 | Flautist
– with ‘Fluterie’ based in York (UK), performing classical music for flute quintet in numerous local concerts across the city’s venues.
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1994 - 1996 | Flautist
– with Matt Hind as ‘guest’ soloist, performing Hind’s arrangements for flute and piano from the popular-music songbook, for numerous engagements in Wakefield (UK).
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1989 | Flautist
– with ‘The Buskers’ flute and guitar duo, performing arrangements for flute and guitar from the popular-music songbook, in numerous spots on tour in Cornwall, June-August 1989.
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2024 | Flute solos
– from a programme including Handel’s Flute Sonata in F major, accompanied by Joseph Causey (piano), Väckelsång church (Sweden), 3rd March 2024.
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2023 | Flute solos
– from a programme of standards with jazz guitarist Chris Cobbson, Stansted (UK), 23rd July 2023.
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2023 | Solos on flute, and Irish whistle
– from a programme including a traditional hornpipe performed on Irish whistle, with Lukas Gunnarsson accompanied by ‘Jonzon Musik’, Väckelsång church (Sweden), 6th January 2023.
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2022 | Unaccompanied flute solo
– Vivaldi’s Largo from Concerto in C major RV 443, in Växjö (Sweden), 30th September 2022.
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2022 | Solos on flute, and Irish whistle
– at Välgörenhetskonsert (Väckelsång Hjälper Ukraina), Björkeborg, Väckelsång (Sweden), 17th April 2022.
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2019 | Flute solos
– including J.S. Bach, and Gluck, accompanied by Anki Lindeqvist (piano), Väckelsång church (Sweden), 2nd November, 2019.
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2017 | Unaccompanied flute solo (masked performance)
– of Debussy’s Syrinx around the organological sculpture Bäckahästen in the landscape at Gärdslösa (Öland, Sweden), 22nd July 2017.
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2004 | Flute solos
– with CD accompaniment, performing Mediaeval-inspired Tunes for Flute (arr. Gill) at Kristianopel Medeltidsfest (Sweden), 28th - 29th August 2004.
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1999 | Flautist
– for Songs of Praise BBC Television programme: episode from Yorkshire, aired 12th December 1999 on BBC One London.
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