Ruth Morley
Ruth Morley teaches flute at RCS across undergraduate and graduate courses. This work includes one to one lessons, classes and chamber coaching. Ruth’s teaching is focussed on building strong and flexible technical skills connected with informed and stylish interpretation skills to allow the widest possible musical choices in performance.
Ruth Morley is the flute player with contemporary music group, Red Note Ensemble. Ruth is also a composer, published by Tetractys and she is in demand as a teacher having taught many successful students now working in the profession. Her study book Etudes and Exercises is becoming very popular with flute players around the world.
As well as work with Red Note, Ruth performs regularly with pianist Scott Mitchell, in a trio with Sharron Griffiths harp and Scott Dickinson viola, and works in a duo with composer and vocalist Laura Bowler.
Ruth has appeared with Red Note and as a soloist and chamber musician at many leading festivals including Sound, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, East Neuk, Edinburgh International and Fringe, Cheltenham, Bath, Ultima and November Music to name a few. She also appears regularly on Radio 3, Radio Scotland and she has been a featured solo artist on Classic FM. Recent recording projects include CDs for Delphian of work by Jane Stanley and James Dillon.
Favourite ever gig (so far): Playing Vox Balaenae by George Crumb in the amazing Concorde hangar at East Fortune for Lammermuir Festival.
Ruth is the founder of the Scottish International Flute Summer School and was its director for 20 years. She still enjoys teaching on the course which continues to attract a truly international cohort of students.