Biography
Ruth Molins breathes energy into sound through flutes. She performs, teaches and composes - sharing music, honouring feelings and welcoming creativity. Her performance practice is rooted in community and in our shared mundane-profound human loves and losses. In 2023, Flute Cake (with flautists Sophie Brewer and Jennifer Campbell) are performing a ten-year anniversary tour supported by Villages in Action; and Duo Tutti (with pianist Alex Wilson) are artists for Live Music Now. Ruth was raised on music: singing every day, lugging her library of music everywhere, passing both grade 8 flute and piano with distinction before she had left school. Her creative growth continued throughout years of specialist study of the flute; at Cardiff University with Susan Buckland, and after with Michael Cox, Anna Noakes, Susie Hodder-Williams, and in masterclasses with Jonathan Snowden, Ian Clarke and Carla Rees. Her teaching career began aged 17 as director of the East Devon music centre flute choir, starting a journey of teaching, adjudicating, workshop-leading and community-making through flute playing. She currently teaches flute and musicianship classes at Exeter School and privately. Her composition Make Room was performed at the festival From Devon With Love.
Ruth loves to collaborate with others to make new music happen - whether that is new, living performances of old music, or newly composed music. Recent projects have included: a performance with pianist Margaret Fingerhut of a new work, 'The Marsh Fritillary Butterfly', by Gabi Mills; a performance and recording on a rare 300-year-old flute in collaboration with Ian Summers, Torquay Museum and A Quiet Night In; and a new work for 3 flutes (including alto, bass and piccolo), 'Ancient Rites', by Andrew M. Wilson, dedicated to Ruth, performed and recorded by Flute Cake and published by Wonderful Winds.
Photo by Jade Gall
Ruth Molins breathes energy into sound through flutes. She performs, teaches and composes - sharing music, honouring feelings and welcoming creativity. Her performance practice is rooted in community and in our shared mundane-profound human loves and losses. In 2023, Flute Cake (with flautists Sophie Brewer and Jennifer Campbell) are performing a ten-year anniversary tour supported by Villages in Action; and Duo Tutti (with pianist Alex Wilson) are artists for Live Music Now. Ruth was raised on music: singing every day, lugging her library of music everywhere, passing both grade 8 flute and piano with distinction before she had left school. Her creative growth continued throughout years of specialist study of the flute; at Cardiff University with Susan Buckland, and after with Michael Cox, Anna Noakes, Susie Hodder-Williams, and in masterclasses with Jonathan Snowden, Ian Clarke and Carla Rees. Her teaching career began aged 17 as director of the East Devon music centre flute choir, starting a journey of teaching, adjudicating, workshop-leading and community-making through flute playing. She currently teaches flute and musicianship classes at Exeter School and privately. Her composition Make Room was performed at the festival From Devon With Love.
Ruth loves to collaborate with others to make new music happen - whether that is new, living performances of old music, or newly composed music. Recent projects have included: a performance with pianist Margaret Fingerhut of a new work, 'The Marsh Fritillary Butterfly', by Gabi Mills; a performance and recording on a rare 300-year-old flute in collaboration with Ian Summers, Torquay Museum and A Quiet Night In; and a new work for 3 flutes (including alto, bass and piccolo), 'Ancient Rites', by Andrew M. Wilson, dedicated to Ruth, performed and recorded by Flute Cake and published by Wonderful Winds.
Photo by Jade Gall