Fiona is a founder member of NYOS and an alumnus of St Mary's Music School, studying at the Royal Scottish Academy in Glasgow and the Royal Academy of Music in London.
She is Lead Tutor for Strings at Trinity Laban Junior Conservatoire and has a passion for music in all forms; combining a busy career as a performer with writing creative and collaborative national and international performance projects.
She has held teaching posts at the Junior Guildhall School of Music, Colchester Institute, Goldsmith’s College, National Children’s Orchestra, Head of Strings for London Borough of Bexley and as specialist strings examiner and syllabus developer for the Guildhall Examinations board.
Fiona has delivered sessions on Mindfulness for Musicians on behalf of the Federation of Festivals, at the 2016 Music Education Expo in Olympia, the Federation of Festivals conference in Edinburgh, The South West Regional Federation of Festivals Forum, Musicians Union, IAPS, Chipping Norton Music Festival and delivered staff development sessions for colleagues at Trinity Laban Conservatoire.