The Bute Wind Quintet is an award-winning ensemble consisting of current students and recent graduates of the Orchestral Performance master’s programme at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, several of whom are individual prize winners. The group was formed to record a performance of Malcolm Arnold’s Welsh Dances suite for the International Malcolm Arnold Festival and it was within their first year of meeting that the ensemble won the Wind Plus Chamber Prize adjudicated by James Turnbull, performing David Maslanka’s 4th Wind Quintet.  

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Gabriella Alberti (Flute), Sam Willsmore (Oboe), Hannah Harding (Bassoon), Nathan Barker (Horn) and Meg Davies (Clarinet) are currently Artists in Residence at the Norwegian Church Arts Centre where the Bute Wind Quintet maintains a high standard of performance across many musical styles, performing in masterclasses with Adam Walker and Ben Goldscheider. As Artists in Residence at the Norwegian Church Arts Centre, the Quintet give recital performances and are engaged for functions for groups such as the Welsh Norwegian Society. The Quintet are also delighted to have recently been awarded the June Emerson Wind Music Launchpad Prize and look forward to developing their relationship with June Emerson as they continue their mission to explore contemporary and underperformed repertoire, taking it to a variety of spaces across South Wales and the UK.