Studies and interests 

Aimée enjoys solo performance and was recently awarded the first prize in the National Flute Association Baroque Flute Artist competition, held in San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A. She especially enjoys researching new repertoire, often held in library collections, and bringing it to life. 

She has performed on modern flute as part of leading cultural events, such as at the Commonwealth Games, and has given international solo performances in a wide variety of countries from France to Tenerife, and from Germany to San Diego. 

She is also particularly passionate about baroque chamber and orchestral playing and has performed with eminent ensembles, recent highlights including with the Hanover Band, Dunedin Consort and joining Solomon’s Knot for their tour of Germany and the U.K. The performances on this project, including at Stadtkirche St Peter und Paul, Weimar, for the Thüringer Bachwochen, at the Nikolaikirche, Leipzig, for the Bachfest Leipzig and at St. James’s Spanish Place, London, for the Wigmore Hall, were especially memorable. 

Aimée was awarded an Artist Diploma in historical performance (baroque flute) from the Royal College of Music (RCM), London, in 2023. This followed graduating, in summer 2022, from the RCM with a Master of Music, also in baroque flute, with distinction. During her studies at the RCM, she had entrance scholarships for both of her degrees and was an Irene Hanson scholar and a George Thornton Award-holder. 

Prior to her time in London, Aimée studied for a diplôme d’exécution in modern flute performance at the École Normale de Musique de Paris, where she was a scholarship holder, and for a BA in Music at the University of Oxford (Somerville College). She began her formative musical education in her native Scotland at St. Mary’s Music School in Edinburgh. Here, she studied flute, piano and voice, and enjoyed performing and touring with both the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland and the National Youth Choir of Scotland. 

Aimée won various awards throughout her studies, including being awarded the Margaret Irene Seymour Award and the Irene Brown Award at Oxford. Competition success included winning the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra Young Artists Platform Award and, in Paris, a premier prix (Concours des Lyres et des Arts), in addition to the composer’s prize, with congratulations, for her interpretation of an original piece. 

Aimée is extremely grateful for the external financial support she has received to date. In addition to the RCM and the École Normale de Musique de Paris, she has received a postgraduate award from Help Musicians and funding from the Zetland Foundation, the Women’s Careers Foundation, the Scottish International Education Trust, the Kathleen Trust and the Stapley Trust. She is a member of the Independent Society of Musicians.

When not playing, Aimée enjoys research and her interests include both the emergence and professionalisation of women flautists and the philosophy of the historical performance movement. She very much enjoys academic tutoring and flute teaching and has extensive experience in both. 

In her free time, Aimée loves walking in nature, especially on the beach near her childhood home in Seamill, North Ayrshire. She is very interested in travel and learning foreign languages and speaks fluent French and Spanish. She loves cooking and eating good food, and is particularly passionate about health, well-being and quality time spent with friends and family.