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HOOT is an accomplished flute and harp duo comprising Emma Wilkins and Helen MacLeod. They are recent winners of the prestigious Tunnell Trust Award for Young Musicians 2009/10 and in May 2009 were invited to attend the Blair Atholl Showcase for Young Musicians where they worked with many distinguished musicians including William Bennett and Neil Black.

HOOT are also the current recipients of the 2008-10 Enterprise Music Scotland Residency Project, an in-depth development programme for emerging Scottish-based chamber groups and have already started work on their first album.
Education and music therapy play a very important role to HOOT and since November 2007 Emma and Helen have been part of the Live Music Now! scheme – a project set up by Yehudi Menuhin to bring the joy and inspiration of live music to those who have limited access.

Both of these highly versatile musicians are very much in demand as orchestral and chamber musicians and, in addition to performing with all of Scotland’s professional orchestras have also featured with the Halle Orchestra and Northern Sinfonia and, underlining their virtuosity, have also performed with the pop groups, Belle & Sebastian and Texas.