LYNN HENDERSON

Originally from Cornwall, Lynn Henderson is a horn player specialising in orchestral playing, activism, contemporary chamber and community music.
Lynn studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama for her BMus, graduating with the Principal’s Award in 2019. She then completed a Masters at the Royal Academy of Music. Lynn was a chamber fellow with Wigmore Hall Learning in 2021/22, performing horn and piano recitals in the Wigmore Hall, as well as working in women’s shelters, dementia groups, hospitals and primary schools. A new work, The Whale’s Cabaret was written for her by the composer Lucy Armstrong as part of this fellowship year, funded by the Royal Philharmonic Society.
In September 2022, Lynn began working for Nevis Ensemble as one of their first cohort of fellows, a street orchestra training scheme which was sadly discontinued in January 2023, This was however an amazing chance to gain skills in all aspects of community music delivery, performing in prisons, hospices and refugee settlements.
Now back living in London full time, Lynn freelances across the UK, performing with orchestras, as a soloist and in chamber ensembles, including her wind quintet, PRISM Ensemble, and brass quintet, Blackweir Brass. In June 2024, she curated a Sinfonia Cymru project, entitled No Music on a Dead Planet, which focussed on anxiety around the climate crisis.
She has performed with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Sinfonia Cymru, Echo Ensemble, Random Opera, the Welsh Pops Orchestra, the Divertimento Ensemble, Orpheus Sinfonia and the St Endellion Festival Orchestra.
Outside of music, Lynn enjoys cold swimming and pub quizzes. She has been a member of the TUC Women’s Committee and currently serves on the Musicians’ Union Freelance Orchestral Committee, as well as chairing the Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion Committee.