Flora Curzon is an award-winning violinist based in London. She has released recordings including Hold Still Liminal (solo, Feb 2023), Unfurl (Fran & Flora, Feb 2019), and Meditations and Laments (Gaia Duo, Dec 2019), and has performed as a solo artist, chamber and orchestral musician, folk fiddler, improviser and singer at venues and studios including The Wigmore Hall, Kings Place, The Globe, Jools Holland and Tiny Desk. Her critically acclaimed experimental folk duo, Fran & Flora, hailed as brave and classy by Robin Denselow (The Guardian), has toured internationally, and has been interviewed on radio programs including BBC Radio 4s Woman's Hour and BBC6 Music with Cerys Matthews.
Flora performs all kinds of classical and contemporary music, Klezmer, and traditional music from across the British Isles. She performs on both a 'modern' (metal string) violin and 'historical' (gut string) violin, and experiments with live electronics. Her unique interests and skills have led her towards a wide range of collaborations and opportunities including most recently with London Klezmer Quartet, Oliveros Ensemble, English Touring Opera, Barokksolistene (Siwan), Shobana Jayasingh Dance (Clorinda Agonistes), David Shweitzer (Our Great National Parks - feat. Barack Obama), James Riley & The Rooftop Assembly, and Khiyo (new album 'Bondona' released 22nd July 2022). Flora also works regularly with MishMash Productions to create fully-staged 'chamber-music-theatre' for Young Audiences, and has performed in staged shows by Jocelyn Pook and Deafinitely Theatre. In February 2020 she was interviewed on BBC Radio 3 This Classical Life with Jess Gillam. An experienced string-arranger and recording artist Flora creates and records string parts for albums, films and TV.
Flora trained in both modern and historical violin at the Royal Academy of Music, London, supported by the RC Wyse Bequest Award, where she studied with Maureen Smith, Elizabeth Wallficsh, Rachel Podger and Nicolette Moonen. She was the winner of the Music Patrons Award 2019, the Bickerdike Allen, Roy Burcher and John McAslan prizes, and took masterclasses with Maxim Vengerov and Ruth Watermann. Flora continues to study many kinds of traditional music, music production and performance art.