Rachel Jeffers
Rachel Jeffers studied flute at the Royal Academy of Music, with William Bennett and Sebastian Bell. She won the J J Brough Flute Prize at the RAM, in 1993, and the Lawrence Beauregard Flute Competition, in 1994, in Quebec.
Rachel has freelanced with many orchestras, including The Philharmonia, BBC Concert Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and BBC National Orchestra of Wales. She relocated from Surrey to Newcastle in 2004, since when she has freelanced with Royal Northern Sinfonia, the English Philharmonic, Orchestra for Alnwick Choral Society, Orchestra of Hexham Abbey Festival Chorus and the British Philharmonic, and was Principal Flute with Northern Orchestra from its inauguration in 2016.
Solo performances include Mozart’s Flute Concerto in G Major, with The Tynedale Orchestra, in 2011, J.S. Bach’s Suite in B Minor with Tyneside Chamber Orchestra in 2018, and performed the Gluck Concerto with TCO in 2022 and with the Bewick Orchestra in 2023.
A committed teacher, Rachel was appointed Head of Woodwind Studies at Newcastle University in 2022, having taught flute at Newcastle for many years. She also teaches at Northumbria and Durham Universities, local schools and privately, and has adjudicated for Hartlepool Music Festival and South Shields Music Service. She has been an ABRSM examiner since 2003.
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