Rebecca Lenton

I am an internationally active flautist, educator, conductor and Artistic Director of the KNM Campus Ensemble, working across classical and contemporary music at a professional international level.

As a performer, I appear regularly with Ensemble KNM Berlin, with performances at major international festivals including Donaueschinger Musiktage, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Wien Modern, MaerzMusik Berlin, Biennale Musica Venice, Ars Musica, World New Music Days and Carnegie Hall, New York. My work spans both contemporary and classical contexts, and I perform across the full flute family, including piccolo, C flute, alto flute and bass flute.

Alongside my contemporary performance work, I have a long-standing recital collaboration with Kammerkunstverein Hamburg, performing annual programmes for flute and piano that combine classical repertoire with contemporary works. I also collaborate with leading ensembles and orchestras including Klangforum Wien, Berlin State Opera, Ensemble Contrechamps, Ensemble Resonanz, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the Royal Opera House.

A significant aspect of my artistic practice is collaboration with composers. I have performed works written for me by composers including Ying Wang, Mark Andre, Gregory Rose, Geoff Hannan,and been a part of many world premieres including operas by Beat Furrer, Matthias Pintscher and Luciano Berio, contributing to the development of new contemporary repertoire for the flute.

I am Founder, Artistic Director and Conductor of the KNM Campus Ensemble, an international ensemble for amateur and semi-professional musicians focused on participatory approaches to contemporary music-making. Through this work I lead large-scale collaborative projects, commission new works and develop international partnerships, including collaborations with CoMA (UK). A key project includes KNM Campus Days at Klangwerkstatt Berlin, bringing together professional, student and community musicians in large-scale creative performance projects.

I have extensive experience as a teacher and workshop leader at higher education level, including masterclasses and coaching at institutions such as the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre, Conservatorium Maastricht, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London and the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin, as well as international work in South Korea, Taiwan and Germany. I have also worked as a flute coach at the OPUS XXI summer academy for music students, solo repertoire and contemporary performance practice.

My teaching and artistic practice integrates classical and contemporary flute pedagogy with ensemble learning, group composition and embodied approaches to performance. A central focus of my work is supporting musicians in developing technical confidence, creative independence and sustainable performance practice, including work on performance preparation and performance anxiety.

I have published writing on performance wellbeing in the Annual Publication of the Association for Functional Relaxation.

My work is driven by a commitment to inclusive, collaborative and artistically ambitious music-making, bridging professional performance contexts, education and participatory creative practice.