HEATHER BROOKS, HARP
and DYLAN LATHAM, VIOLIN
SATURDAY 13th DECEMBER
2025
Heather Brooks
Award-winning harpist Heather Brooks has just completed her final year on the Artists' Masters programme at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with Distinction. She has won a number of awards including the Musicians' Company David Goldman Award, a Scholarship to attend The Purcell School for Young Musicians, and 1st Prize in the Senior Category at the United Kingdom Harp Competition 2025.
In May 2024 Heather made her concerto debut in the Barbican Hall as a finalist in the Guildhall Gold Medal Competition. She has performed as a soloist with the Guildhall Chamber Orchestra presenting Roxana Panufnik's Harp Concerto; she won the City of Szeged Prize at the Sixth International Harp Competition in Hungary; was selected for the harp position at the Encuentro de Música y Academia de Santander in 2023 and recently recorded with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra. She is also in demand as a chamber musician.
Heather began learning the harp at age ten with Daphne Boden and went on to win the Purcell School Student Showcase, performing at the Wigmore Hall. In July 2015, Heather was awarded the long-term loan of the Charles Steer Promenaders' Salvi Aurora Harp by the Cherubim Music Trust. As section leader of the National Youth Harp Orchestra, she premiered her own composition, World Harp Symphony, at St George's Chapel, Windsor.
Dylan Latham
Dylan is a 25 year old violinist from Norwich, who began the violin at the age of 4. He studied with Alda Dizdari, attended the Junior Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Purcell School of Music, and began his undergraduate degree with scholarship at the Royal Northern College of Music in 2018. He is currently studying for 2 more years under Professor Ida Bieler in Winston Salem, at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
He has won multiple competitions, led orchestras, and participated in masterclasses. He has worked closely alongside the Manchester Camerata, and has played with the BBC Philharmonic, The Halle, the London Mozart Players, Chaos Collective, and the BBC Scottish; as well as winning a fellowship from the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle this year.
Dylan is a keen chamber musician and hopes to enter the professional world as part of a chamber ensemble. He plays on a stunning 2024 Guarneri model violin by maker Jeremie Legrand, and a wonderful new bow from Tim Baker.