About Elsa

Education

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She earned her two degrees; Master of Music and Bachelor of Music (Hons) at Birmingham Conservatoire UK (now Royal Birmingham Conservatoire). At Birmingham she studied flute with Marie-Christine Zupancic, Colin Lilley, Jonathan Rimmer, Judith Hall and Diane Clark. She studied piccolo with Andrew Lane and baroque flute with Jane Mitchell and Annabel Knight. Before studying at Birmingham, she earned a scholarship to study at Wells Cathedral School as a Specialist Musician. At Wells, she was taught by Gesine Stegmann and Lisa Nelsen.

While studying in the UK she achieved numerous prizes. She was awarded the Laura Marco Prize from the ABRSM. She won the “Woodwind Solo Repertoire Advanced” category in Mid-Somerset Competitive Festival 2007. She was awarded the 2nd prize of the 2011 Ludlow Philharmonic Concerto Competition.

She has participated in masterclasses with: Sir James Galway, Robert Winn, Peter Lloyd and Walter Auer.

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Orchestral Musician

Orchestral playing has always been a big part in Elsa's flute playing as that’s what she enjoys the most. She was the former Co-Principal Flute of Shaanxi Symphony Orchestra and Guiyang Symphony Orchestra's Principal Piccolo. The highlights of the concerts while on tour with Shaanxi Symphony Orchestra were performances at the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria, and Tonhalle in Zürich, Switzerland.

During her student life, she was very active in orchestral playing. She was selected on the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestral Training Scheme as well as playing side-by-side with the Welsh National Opera Orchestra. 

Chamber Musician 

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Elsa takes part in many forms of chamber music playing, including wind quintet, flute duo, flute viola and harp trio and more. She appears in many concerts with her chamber friends. She is a member of Apeliotes Duet with her best friend oboist Nikki Wu.

Educator

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Elsa is a very experienced teacher and has been teaching for over ten years. She enjoys meeting every pupil no matter if the student wants to become professional or is just learning music for fun. She will help them in every way. Ultimately, enjoying the music is the most important thing! Her students are all doing very well, many of them have passed ABRSM or Trinity College London music grade exams on flute, piano and theory. One of Elsa's students now is studying at Xi'an Conservatory of Music. Elsa was one of the official exam translators of ABRSM in China.