Sofía Patterson-Gutiérrez – Flute
Sofía is the recent winner of the Gold Medal Royal Overseas League Award 2026. In 2022, she won the BBC Young Musician Woodwind Final and has since won the William Bennett Flute Prize and Yamaha Music Scholarship Award. She has also been selected as one of the participants in the 2026 Carl Nielsen International Flute Competition. In July 2025, Sofia performed at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany as a soloist and chamber musician representing the Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT). As a freelancer, she has performed as guest principal with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the Philharmonia.
Sofía currently studies at the Royal Academy of Music with Michael Cox, where she holds a full scholarship kindly supported by the Calleja Foundation Award. At the Academy, Sofía has participated in various exciting projects such a as playing one of the solo flute parts of Boulez’s “Explosante-Fixe…” alongside Michael Cox and Karen Jones in a side-by-side performance with the London Sinfonietta, conducted by George Benjamin. She also enjoys a variety of chamber music, recently performing in a side-by-side project with members of the Nash Ensemble and Czech Philharmonic.
Emily Long – Oboe
Emily has just finished her final year at Cambridge University, graduating with a First Class with Distinction in music. She was awarded an honorary scholarship by her college, Clare College. Currently studying the oboe with Christopher Cowie on the CAMRAM scheme, she previously attended the junior department of the Royal Academy of Music. Her passion for orchestral music was fuelled by her time as the principal oboist of the National Youth Orchestra in 2022 and 2023, and has recently played with the Dmitri Ensemble in Sinfonia Smith Square for radio broadcast.
At Cambridge, she was the principal oboist of the Cambridge University Orchestra and enjoyed performing in other recitals, chamber groups and orchestras throughout the university and city. This included featuring as the cor anglais soloist in Copland’s Quiet City, and playing as an oboe soloist under John Rutter in a concert organised by the Cambridge Summer Music Festival. She has enjoyed performing in masterclasses with Alexei Ogrintchouk and Nicholas Daniel. This year, Emily will study for a postgraduate at the Royal Academy of Music on an Entrance Scholarship, as well as being generously supported by a Derek Butler Munster Trust Award.
Raj Bhaumik – Clarinet
Raj Bhaumik (clarinet) freelances on both modern and historical instruments, notably playing Guest-Principal with the Irish Baroque Orchestra. He has also worked with the City of London Sinfonia, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Gabrieli Consort and Players and the Vauxhall Band. Raj has also benefitted from the Royal Opera House’s “Overture” Programme, and is currently on the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment’s Experience Scheme.
As a soloist and chamber musician, he has broadcasted on BBC Radio 3’s “In Tune” and BBC Radio Scotland’s “Classics Unwrapped,” and given duo recitals at venues including St Cyprian’s Lenzie, Southwark Cathedral and the Tetbury Goods Shed.
Raj commenced studies at the Royal Academy of Music in 2023, on an ABRSM Scholarship. His teachers for various clarinet types have are Christopher Richards, Sonia Sielaff, Maura Marinucci, Chi-Yu Mo, Thomas Watmough Bass Clarinet Laurent Ben Slimane and Katherine Spencer. Whilst at the Academy, he won first in the Buffet Crampon Clarinet Prize and performed the solo part in Bernstein’s “Prelude, Fugue and Riffs” with conductor Jeroen Berwaerts.
Raj is passionate about music education and expanding access to the arts. He teaches at the Youth Music Centre and works with the Academy’s Widening Participation Department. In May 2026, he joined the Board of Trustees of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.
Raj is grateful to the support provided by the Loan Fund for Musical Instruments and the West London Charitable Trust for their financial support with his instrument purchases.
Chloe Harrison – French Horn
Chloe Harrison is a horn player currently studying at the Royal Academy of Music, where she holds a full scholarship supported by the Drapers’ Company for Music Award. She studies with David Pyatt, Richard Watkins, and Martin Owen. Chloe has appeared as Principal Horn with the Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra at the Aldeburgh Festival, and has performed at Wigmore Hall with the Academy Chamber Soloists Ensemble. In 2024, she was awarded first prize in the John Solomon Brass Prize.
.As a soloist, Chloe has performed Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings with James Gilchrist, Strauss’s Second Horn Concerto with the Oxford University Press Orchestra, and Mozart’s Fourth Horn Concerto with the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra. Other notable solo appearances include Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with the Camerata Chamber Orchestra and as first horn in Schumann’s Konzertstück with the Islington Sinfonia.
Chloe works regularly as a freelance musician, performing with ensembles such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Britten Sinfonia. She has also participated in recording sessions for film and video game scores at Abbey Road and Air Studios. She was Principal Horn of the National Youth Orchestra from 2022 to 2024
Tom Donkin – Bassoon
Scottish-born bassoonist Tom Donkin is a passionate orchestral and chamber musician. He has performed in some of the most prestigious venues across the UK and the world, including The Royal Albert Hall, St Paul’s Cathedral, The Royal Festival Hall, as well as performances in Amman (Jordan) and across Taiwan as a part of the Taipei Music and Academy Festival Orchestra.
As a freelance musician, Tom has played with some of the UK’s leading orchestras including, The Philharmonia, BBC Philharmonic, Ulster orchestra, and The Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO). Over the next year, Tom is excited to being part of The Royal Liverpool Philharmonics Emerging Artists Fellowship, and The Philharmonia’s Instrumental Fellowship Programme. Tom is currently studying at The Royal Academy of Music, his teachers there are Robin O’Neill, Jonathan Davies, and Fraser Gordon. When not in a practise room, Tom loves trying overpriced coffee, and enjoys craft beer and real ale.
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