Gill Kenchington Flute			Gill was born in Worcester. Her early promise as a Flautist led to membership of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and the award of a Foundation Scholarship to the royal College of Music, where she studied with Edward Walker (Principal Flute of the London Symphony Orchestra). The early part of her career was spent in Scotland where, together with her husband Bill, a Clarinettist in the Scottish National Orchestra, she was a member of the Douglas Ensemble. A successful duo partnership was formed with the pianist Anne Crawford and together they performed in Music Clubs throughout Scotland and England, also giving several BBC recitals. Since moving to Deal in 1979, when Bill became Professor of Clarinet at the School of Music of the Royal Marines, Gill has led a very busy life both playing and teaching flute, whilst devoting the major part of her time to her three children. She is a member of the Cambini Ensemble, with whom she participated in one of the first concerts of the Deal Summer Music Festival and, more recently in last summer’s festival, she was a soloist in Sir Paul MacCartney’s ‘A Garland for Linda’. She has also helped to organise the local Flute Club, Walmer Flutes. An enthusiastic devotee of the wooden flute, she plays a Rudall Carte instrument that was handmade in 1905 and which has been her treasured possession since 1957