Carla Rees

Carla Rees is a British low flutes player, composer and arranger, working to raise the profile of her instruments through performance, research and collaboration. She enjoys an international performance career both as a soloist, improviser and chamber musician; she frequently appears at international festivals and was a soloist for the National Flute Association’s Concerto Gala in Phoenix Arizona in 2023. Recent performances include in Brazil, USA and Japan as well as around the UK.

She is an established recording artist with a discography of over 30 titles, including concertos with the Royal Ballet Sinfonia and Neue Musik im Ostseeraum, as well as several world premiere recordings of works composed for her. She has also recorded for film, radio and video games. Her drive to create new repertoire for low flutes and baroque traverso has resulted in the premieres of several hundred works, many of which are now published by Tetractys Publishing.

She is Artistic Director of the contemporary chamber music ensemble rarescale, and its associated ensemble, rarescale Flute Academy. She leads low flute days and masterclasses, throughout the UK. She is also Artistic Director of the International Superflutes Collective, an ensemble which celebrates international friendship and collaboration.

Carla was appointed as the first Professor of Low Flutes and Contemporary Flute at the Royal Academy of Music in September 2021 and has taught masterclasses and led composer workshops at some of the world’s leading institutions, including the Juilliard School in New York and USC in Los Angeles. She is Editor of the British Flute Society’s magazine, PAN, and Commissions Coordinator for the National Flute Association of America.

Carla plays Kingma System flutes, made for her by Eva Kingma, Bickford Brannen and Lev Levit. She has a PhD from the Royal College of Music in London.