Lunchtime Music

Hannah Spry French horn
Joanne Sealey piano

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Fang-Yu Ni piano

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Hannah Spry is a French horn player from London currently in her second year studying for a Master’s in Music at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, supported by the Leverhulme Trust and Headley Trust. During her time at RBC, she has been selected for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra training scheme and the Birmingham Royal Ballet training scheme as well as winning the Bernard Brown Brass Ensemble Prize, a finalist in the Brass Solo prize and performing with the RBC Symphony Orchestra multiple times as principal horn. She currently studies with Andy Littlemore, Elspeth Dutch, Neil Shewan and Jeremy Bushell.

Hannah graduated from the Royal College of Music in London in 2025 for her Bachelor of Music with first class honours and studied with Simon Rayner, Jonathan Maloney, John Ryan, Zoë Tweed and Alex Edmundson. She joined in 2021 as an Ian Evans Lombe Scholar and performed regularly with the Symphony and Philharmonic Orchestras. She played in masterclasses to Katy Woolley and Frøydis Ree Wekre and, in 2025, she was a finalist for the Yamaha Music Foundation Brass Scholarship.

In 2021, Hannah won Ealing Youth Orchestra’s “Concertothon” Concerto Prize playing Richard Strauss's Horn Concerto No.1, which led to five performances of the concerto in 2022 including three performances in Cologne, Germany as part of the Orchestra’s annual summer tour.

Fang-Yu Ni (Emily) [pictured above] is a second-year Master's student in Piano Performance at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. She completed her Bachelor's degree in Business Administration at National Taiwan Normal University, where she studied Music as a minor subject before dedicating herself fully to piano performance.

Running time approx. 55 minutes