Beth Stone

As an avid player of all flutes from renaissance all the way through to modern flute, London-based Beth Stone enjoys a colourful career performing in many different settings in the UK and Europe.

She freelances with a variety of orchestras including the Academy of Ancient Music; Irish Baroque Orchestra; Ex-Cathedra; The Sixteen; Armonico Consort; London Handel Players; Cambridge Handel Opera Company; among many others. Her playing can also be heard on recordings with the Taverner Consort and the Academy of Ancient Music. Radio appearances have included Germany’s WDR 3 and BBC Radio 3, and she has recorded albums with Lumas Winds for Champs Hill and Flutes & Frets Duo for EM Records. She has won several prizes in competitions including the 2026 Lyon International Chamber Music Competition; 2023 International H.I.F. Biber Competition; 2022 Royal Overseas League Competition; and the Telemann Fantasia Recording Competition 2021.

Chamber music has always been a central part of Beth’s music making. She has performed with several chamber groups, and now primarily, the award-winning Flutes & Frets Duo and Lumas Winds which have enabled her to perform in many festivals, concerts, competitions and events. Supported by schemes and trusts including The Munster Trust; Kirckman Concerts; Making Music, Tunnell Trust and the European Festivals Association she has had the opportunity to tour all over the UK and Europe.

Beth spent seven years studying at Chetham’s School of Music from age eleven, taking an interest in historical flutes in her final two years there. As an Ian Evans Lombe Scholar, she graduated from the Royal College of Music with a first class honours in 2022, where she studied modern flute with Gitte Marcusson and historical flutes with Rachel Brown as part of the joint principal course, winning the RCM McKenna Prize for the highest end-of-year recital mark in a baroque instrument.