About Natalie Twigg
Natalie has played with musicians worldwide including Ravi Shankar and Paul McCandless. She has played for the British Royal family and in 2004 was commissioned to write and record a lullaby for the newly born Princess Catharina Amalia of the Dutch Royal family. She has been called to play with Led Zepplin, recorded for the BBC, Spanish television, Channel 4 (UK) and WGBH (USA).
Natalie has freelanced throughout Europe and America with orchestras, jazz, rock and chamber ensembles and performing solo recitals at venues including St. Martin-in-the-Fields.
At 18 she won a prestigious scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London where she studied for 5 years with highly acclaimed soloist Sarah Francis and the London Symphony's English hornist, Christine Pendrill.
Whilst dance was a strong part of her childhood, Natalie has especially enjoyed playing for the Royal Ballet, Boston Ballet and collaborating with Alvin Ailey on her piece "Twelve Years in October".
In 2003 she founded The Natalie Twigg Music Foundation gifting personal lullabies to terminally ill children. During this time she recorded 80 traditional childrens songs for english language schools in Central and South America. Her CDs "Sea Whispers”, "Lullabies for the Miracles of Life" and the "Sanctuary of Sound" are available from her website recordings page.
Whilst in Kansas City Natalie co-founded a 6 piece jazz/world fusion ensemble "Aurora Consort" comprising of 5 jazz musicians and herself. She wrote much of the music and performed and recorded "Twelve Years in October".
She has worked with Charles Bruffy and the Kansas City Chorale. The Composer and arranger JAC Redford (Avatar, Wall-E, Black Beauty, etc.) wrote a piece especially for Natalie and the K.C. Chorale which they premiered in December 2009.
She has worked with Soundings of the Planet record label recording with Dean Evenson and Tom Barabas on their award winning CD "Healing Suite". It is all improvised.
Natalie has recently relocated to the Seattle area where she is working on a few exciting projects, including Snow Angel!