ZOË KUNDU
Artistic Director

Zoë is a music teacher, conductor and trumpeter based in London. She graduated from the University of Manchester with a first-class honours degree in Music, specialising in conducting in her third year under Rob Guy’s tuition. She also completed a graduate diploma at the Royal Northern College of Music, studying the trumpet under the tutelage of John Miller.

 

As the founder and director of the Wyatt Sinfonia, she has led them through ambitious programmes including Mozart’s Requiem, the UK premiere of Pejačević’s Symphony in F# minor and the full ballet of Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé, as well as world premieres. She has guest conducted the St John of Jerusalem Choir and Watford Youth Sinfonia and enjoyed working with the University of Manchester’s Symphony Orchestra, Wind Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra. In 2019 she musically directed the university’s production of Spring Awakening.

 

Zoë has a background of orchestral playing on the trumpet, and was in the National Youth Orchestra, which included performances under Marin Alsop, Sir Mark Elder and at the BBC Proms. She also performed at the BBC Proms with the Aurora Orchestra and inaugural BBC Youth Ensemble in 2015, in the BBC Proms Youth Choir in 2020, and has performed at several other large venues including the Royal Festival Hall, Bridgewater Hall, Barbican, Birmingham Symphony Hall and Ronnie Scott’s. She was a concerto competition winner at Manchester University and has performed the Haydn and Arutunian trumpet concertos with local orchestras.

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As manager of Manchester University’s music outreach projects, Zoë set up several choirs in local schools, and designed a covid-secure Bamboo Tamboo project during the pandemic to help keep school music going. The highlight of her time at university was directing productions of Matilda in two Manchester primary schools and she looks forward to developing her career in educational music. She is currently really enjoying teaching at a secondary school in Hackney, while continuing to conduct and play the trumpet as much as possible.