Florence Plane
Florence Plane is a Welsh freelance bassoonist based in London. She enjoys a varied career of chamber and orchestral playing, and is a founder member of Lumas Winds.
A passionate chamber musician, Flo has performed at a variety of chamber music festivals across the UK, including the Dante, Wye Valley, Penarth, Sheffield, Mananan, Ironstone, and Peasmarsh festivals. She featured at the Oxford Lieder Festival 2021 with acclaimed soprano Sophie Bevan, appears regularly with Sheffield-based Ensemble360, presenting Strauss’ Til Eulenspiegel Einmal Anders, Ligeti’s Ten Pieces, and Mozart’s Gran Partita, and most recently performed Janáček’s Mladi with the Manchester Camerata.
Flo has performed with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, the Gävle Symfoniorkester on their tour of the UK, and NSO Dublin and BBC National Orchestra of Wales, where she held trial positions.
She was a member of the LPO Foyle Future Firsts scheme for 2025/26, was a member of the Chipping Campden Festival Academy Orchestra, performing in their May festival in 2024, and has been selected as the Chromatica Orchestra’s Early Graduate for 2026/27 and is a member of Sinfonia Cymru.
She made the world premiere recording of Pamela Harrison’s ‘Faggot Dance’, which was released as part of a survey of this neglected composer’s chamber music for Resonus Classics on International Women’s Day in 2023, with which she made her German radio debut for WDR3. She also features on a disc exploring Stravinsky’s chamber works under Linn Records with the Royal Academy Soloists Ensemble.
At age 16 she took up a place at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester and was awarded a full scholarship to support her studies at the Royal Academy of Music, with her further studies supported by the Countess of Munster Trust. She continued her studies at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin with Volker Tessmann, supported by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst.